tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41769074721950009232024-03-27T19:52:56.225-04:00HOFC Sermon Archive<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><center> The House of Faith Church Sermon Archives & Articles</center>Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.comBlogger874125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-29545458118548727042024-03-24T06:50:00.002-04:002024-03-26T06:59:54.332-04:00Palm Sunday 2024 From Hosanna to Calvary<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="370" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/palm-sunday-2024" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></span></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikwm1l-i90ZW6DV3EyTTQ_cJXGElSJTz4Wk0FOUq0pC-DDgYSfkK2G2c-lhN7t52hwrpoYo0OewqzmMjUK8r6Ie15FjPWJUdMMATN8wjqwgkn60yTNPlnMVEKXz_rCi1ZMGgtVRjcpqGElvk5rNFaBpMBPhfycOX9naijP6f3AFYvRCMB74b4ZKmaYupQM/s800/Palm%20Sunday%202024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Palm Sunday 2024: From Hosanna to Calvary" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikwm1l-i90ZW6DV3EyTTQ_cJXGElSJTz4Wk0FOUq0pC-DDgYSfkK2G2c-lhN7t52hwrpoYo0OewqzmMjUK8r6Ie15FjPWJUdMMATN8wjqwgkn60yTNPlnMVEKXz_rCi1ZMGgtVRjcpqGElvk5rNFaBpMBPhfycOX9naijP6f3AFYvRCMB74b4ZKmaYupQM/w400-h266/Palm%20Sunday%202024.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
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Giving </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">|<i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i></span></b><a href="https://www.ps127.org/tithes-offerings"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Tithes & Offerings</span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Books by Rev. Shields </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><a href="http://www.bruceshields.us/my-books"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Author Website</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Palm
Sunday 2024</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">From Hosanna
to Calvary</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">By Rev.
Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; tab-stops: 147.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">To give, please visit: </span><a href="https://www.ps127.org/tithes-offerings"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">https://www.ps127.org/tithes-offerings</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">You can also watch or listen at <a name="_Hlk162152835"></a><a href="https://www.ps127.org/watch-online"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162152835;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">https://www.ps127.org/watch-online</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162152835;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk162152835;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Or grab our App: </span><a href="https://www.PS127.org"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">https://www.PS127.org</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">FOLLOW ON SOCIAL</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Facebook: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/HouseofFaithChurch"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">https://www.facebook.com/HouseofFaithChurch</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Pastor Shields: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/AuthorBAShields"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">https://www.facebook.com/AuthorBAShields</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">VISIT IN-PERSON</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">214 Adams St., East Tawas, Michigan 48730</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Worship Service: Sunday 11:00 AM</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Stay up to date with our ministry: </span><a href="https://www.ps127.org/blog/categories/mid-week-encouragement"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">https://www.ps127.org/blog/categories/mid-week-encouragement</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Latest Book by Pastor Shields: Drowning in Milk: </span><a href="https://www.bruceshields.us/drowning-in-milk"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">https://www.bruceshields.us/drowning-in-milk</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Other books by Pastor Shields: </span><a href="https://www.bruceshields.us/my-books"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">https://www.bruceshields.us/my-books</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Visit us online for more: </span><a href="https://www.PS127.org"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">https://www.PS127.org</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The House of Faith Church is organized to establish
and oversee places of worship, conduct the work of evangelism worldwide,
support missionary activities, and license ministers of the gospel as
instructed in <b>Matthew 28</b>. The House of Faith Ministries is an
IRS-registered 501(c)(3) & 170(b)(1)(A)(i)—tax ID:35-2206435.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <i>This document is a Sermon Outline. You may see the
full sermon video by following </i></span><a href="https://www.ps127.org/watch-online"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">https://www.ps127.org/watch-online</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for this and
other sermons. For a complete list of Sermons, visit our archive at </span></i><a href="https://the-truth-digest.blogspot.com/p/sermon-archive.html"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">https://the-truth-digest.blogspot.com/p/sermon-archive.html</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#houseoffaithministries
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#armorofgod #spiritualgifts #servingthelord #palmsunday</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Palm Sunday. March 24<sup>th</sup>,
2024</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Today
is Palm Sunday, Holy Week, or Palm Sunday to Good Friday. From Hosanna to
Calvary, a week that should be celebrated by all followers of Christ. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Listen as I read about the triumphal entry of Jesus.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew 21:1-11</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“And when they had approached Jerusalem and came to
Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to
them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey
tied there and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to Me. 3 And if
anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and
immediately he will send them.” 4 And this took place in order that what was
spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">5 “Say to the daughter of Zion,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">‘Behold your King is coming to you,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lowly, and mounted on a donkey,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And on a colt, the foal of a pack animal.’”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">6 And the disciples went and did just as Jesus had
instructed them, 7 and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their garments
on them; and He sat on the garments. 8 And most of the crowd spread their
garments in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and
spreading them in the road. 9 And the crowds going ahead of Him, and those who
followed, were crying out, saying,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Hosanna to the Son of David;</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Blessed is He who comes in the name of Yahweh;</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hosanna in the highest!”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10 And when He had entered Jerusalem, all the city was
stirred, saying, “Who is this?” 11 And the crowds were saying, “This is the
prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">From the joyful celebration of the entrance of the
king, to the sorrowful path of the coming cross. A contrast of emotions for
those who did not fully understand the work of the cross, or why Jesus had to
die to save.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">THE KING, SON OF DAVID,
TRIUMPHAL ENTRY ON PALM SUNDAY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">The excitement, joy, and
celebrations as the crowds rejoice</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
read again, in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Mark 11:1-11</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
about His entry <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">V9-10</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <i>“Hosanna!</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 117pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Blessed is He who comes in
the name of Yahweh;</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 117pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10 Blessed is the coming
kingdom of our Father David;</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 117pt; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 408.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hosanna
in the highest!”<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 117pt; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 408.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hosanna
is an exclamation expressing adoration, praise, and joy. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Similar
to a shout of alleluia, hurrah, hurray, or in archaic times, huzzah <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">The fulfillment of prophecy</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why
did Jesus ride into Jerusalem as He did? To fulfill prophecy. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Zechariah 9:9</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Make a loud shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Behold, your king is coming to you;</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He is righteous and endowed with Salvation,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lowly [humbled or afflicted] and mounted on a
donkey,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Even on a colt, the foal of a pack animal.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">THE CLEANSING, WARNING,
TURNING AND BETRAYAL MONDAY – TUESDAY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">The following week was filled
with cleansing, warnings, enemies rising, and eventually, betrayal. <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
read in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Mark 11:12-14</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> that
the next day (Monday), Jesus were hungry and came upon a fig tree with leaves
but no figs. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
cursed the tree, saying, <i>“May no one ever eat fruit from you again!”</i> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Imagine,
for a moment, you are the tree.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Your
Lord comes to collect your fruit, and though you have all the leaves and knew
He would come, you have no fruit. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
is a warning to those who claim Christ and even look the part with the leaves
but have no fruit; they are still cursed before the Lord.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
have spoken much lately about fruit showing your faith is alive. James tells us
that faith without works (or fruit) is a dead faith that cannot save. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
Jesus comes to collect, even out of season, you must have fruit. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">After this warning, Jesus
entered the temple, revealing its evil money-exchanging practice <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Flipping
tables and chairs <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Blocking
people from leaving with their merchandise <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">V 17</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <i>“He began to teach and
say to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer
for all the nations’? But you have made it a robbers’ den.”</i> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
priests and scribes stole money through temple coins and unfair exchange rates. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They
were also selling sub-par animals for sacrifice. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is not allowed by Yahweh. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They must be unblemished for a few
reasons</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They
represent the unblemished Son, Jesus <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Is
it truly a <i>sacrifice</i> if the animal is not perfect? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
biggest reason is that God said <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">There are two categories of
sacrifice. <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
you remember, when we studied this in our Exodus series, there are Voluntary
and Mandatory sacrifices. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">VOLUNTARY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Burnt offerings </span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to express devotion or
commitment to God or atonement for unintentional sins</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Grain offerings or fruit of the field are usually offered with a drink
offering (of wine) to express thanksgiving and recognition of</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
God’s provision and unmerited goodwill toward us. A portion of this offering
was given to the priests. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Peace offerings were used as a T</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">hanksgiving/fellowship
shared meal. The priest was given the breast of the animal, and the officiant
priest the right foreleg (called wave offering) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">MANDATORY</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Sin offerings</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> to atone and be cleansed of the sin <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Trespass offerings</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> for atonement for
unintentional sins that required reimbursement to the offended party. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">ALL of which required a spotless, unblemished, perfect animal.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They
violated God’s requirements because of sub-standard sacrifices and because of
their evil money schemes to rip off people trying to make sacrifices to God <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Never
stand between God and people trying to reach Him. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">V 18</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“the chief priests and the scribes heard this, and began seeking how to destroy
Him; for they were afraid of Him, for the whole crowd was astonished at His
teaching.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">THE LAST SUPPER THURSDAY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Mark
14:22-26</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, we read about the last supper they would have
together. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
says in</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <i>I Corinthians 11:24</i></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, “…Do
this in remembrance of Me.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
tells us that the bread represents His body, which was broken for us, and the
wine, His blood, which was shed for the remission of sins. And every time we
take “the Lord’s Supper,” or “communion,” we do this to remember His sacrifice. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">At
the time, they didn’t fully understand what this sacrifice would be <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Peter
even tried talking Him out of the cross, to which Jesus replied by calling him
a satan. Not “the Satan,” but satan, as in accuser or opposer to the Will of
God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Jesus’ betrayal</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Judas
was possessed by Satan.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Luke 22:1-3</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Now the Feast of Unleavened
Bread, which is called the Passover, was drawing near. 2 And the chief priests
and the scribes were seeking how they might put Him to death; for they were
afraid of the people. 3 And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot,
who belonged to the number of the twelve.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Here
we read that Satan (an evil entity) possessed Judas, and he betrayed Jesus…different
from satan (used to describe an accuser or opponent such as Peter when he tried
talking Jesus out of going to the cross) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But I thought Christians could not be
possessed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They
cannot <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Holy Spirit seals us and fills us. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">An
evil spirit cannot reside {with} the Spirit of God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Judas did not have the Holy Spirit yet</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
had not died on the cross <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
day of Pentecost had not occurred. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Helper, promised by God, had not been poured out upon Christians. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Judas allowed himself to be possessed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why…the
bible doesn’t clearly say <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
chose him, but none of the scriptures point to the fact that he believed Jesus
to be God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He
may not have believed Jesus was the Messiah at all. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Unlike
the other disciples, Judas never called Jesus Lord in scripture. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Instead,
he said “Rabbi,” which means nothing more than a teacher. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Other
disciples had great professions of faith and loyalty in scripture, but not
Judas. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Many things could have been going on
with him. Regardless, he was possessed and betrayed the Lord. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Though
scripture says Judas later committed suicide over the matter, we do not know if
there was repentance or if he was ever “saved.” <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">IV.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">AGONY AND SURRENDER THURSDAY
NIGHT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Gethsemane</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
also read in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Mark 14</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
about the distress and weight of humanity’s sin falling upon Jesus as He waited
to surrender to the soldiers coming to take Him to the cross.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
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</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Knowing
all that would come, Jesus obeyed the Father’s will in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">V 36</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">V.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">ARREST, CONDEMNATION,
REJECTION, AND MOCKERY UNTIL FRIDAY MORN</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Much would take place before
the actual cross. <br /></span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
would be arrested</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Peter
would deny knowing Jesus three times.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Mark 15:1-15</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> records Jesus’
abuse and mockery</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">His
humiliation and rejection at the hands of human authority</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
brings us to the cross.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">VI.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">GOOD FRIDAY</span></b></p>
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</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">The Road to Calvary, carrying
the cross</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Mark 15:16-20</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“So the soldiers took Him away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium), and
they *called together the whole Roman cohort. 17 And they *dressed Him up in purple,
and after twisting a crown of thorns, they *put it on Him; 18 and they began to
greet Him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 And they kept beating His head with a
reed, and spitting on Him; and kneeling, they were bowing down before Him. 20
And after they had mocked Him, they took the purple robe off Him and put His
own garments on Him. And they *led Him out to crucify Him.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Looking towards the cross
(Good Friday)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
see something in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Mark 15:21</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
just before Christ was hung from the cross. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“And
they *pressed into service a passerby coming from the countryside, Simon of
Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), to carry His cross.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This single verse is a message to all of us. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God is always purposeful about what is written in
the word. Here we read of a passerby, implying he was not there for the
crucifixion, but more than likely because of the Passover, since he was from
“Cyrene,” a Greek trading post on the Northern part of Africa. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But look at what is said. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Simon (who was there to celebrate Passover) encountered
the one whom the Passover symbolically represented. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Seeking the Lord, He found Him. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Simon is also the father (spiritual head of the
house) of Alexander and Rufus. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He took the cross of Jesus and carried it…sharing in
Jesus’ suffering. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I believe this verse is a message to all of us to
relate to Simon, but a special message to fathers with children…TAKE UP THE
CROSS OF CHRIST JESUS AND SHARE IN HIS SUFFERING FOR SALVATION TO COME TO YOUR
HOME. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Luke records Simon carrying the cross behind
Jesus…following Him. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew 16:24</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to
come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This week, let us reflect on the
following; <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Luke 14: 26-27</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate </span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[better translated ‘loves less’]<i> his own father
and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his
own life, he cannot be My disciple. 27 Whoever does not carry his own cross and
come after Me cannot be My disciple.”</i> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In other words, put the Lord first in your life, share in the sacrifice
of Jesus, pick up your cross, and then you may follow Him.</span></p>
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Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-51044075190165580572024-03-19T05:41:00.000-04:002024-03-19T05:41:01.723-04:00Serving the Lord Part 7: Serving the Lord with our Friends<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"><iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/serving-lord-part-7.movie" width="500" height="370" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe></span></i></b></p>
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Giving </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">|<i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i></span></b><a href="https://www.ps127.org/tithes-offerings"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Tithes & Offerings</span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Books by Rev. Shields </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><a href="https://www.bruceshields.us/my-books"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Author Website</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Serving
the Lord</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 7: Serving the Lord with our Friends</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">By Rev.
Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may hear the
full audio of the sermon by following the link to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> to Serving</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Faith</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Relationships</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Marriage</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Family</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord in our Home</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord with our Friends</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. March 17<sup>th</sup>,
2024</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Over
the last few weeks, we have discussed the many ways we can serve the Lord in
our lives.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It begins with getting where we need to be,
examining ourselves, and digging deep into the word of God. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s
Topic: Serving the Lord with Our Friendships</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Joshua 23:15</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“If it is evil in your sight to serve God, choose
for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers
served which were beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land
you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">WE REFLECT GOD’S LOVE THROUGH
OUR FRIENDSHIPS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">By showing compassion to
friends</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">John 4:7-26</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> – Jesus and the
Samaritan woman at the well</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
asked the woman for a drink</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">She
was shocked because He was a Jew, and she was a Samaritan.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Socially,
they had nothing to do with each other.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
tells her in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">verse 10</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, <i>“If
you knew </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">the gift of God</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and
He would have given you </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">living water</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Without
going deeper and making this the entire sermon, Jesus shows how the people we
meet may not have the Holy Spirit (Living Water) and may not know we have
something they need unless we engage with them and share with them, as </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">verse 14</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> continues, <i>“a well of
water springing up to eternal life.”</i></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Acts 8:25-38</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“So,
when they had solemnly borne witness and spoken the word of the Lord, they
started back to Jerusalem, and were proclaiming the gospel to many villages of
the Samaritans.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Here
we read of Philip befriending an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace,
queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure, and he had come
to Jerusalem to worship</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Candace is not a name but a title for the
Candaces of Meroe, who were the queens of the Kingdom of Kush. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kush
was the oldest son of Ham and grandson of Noah. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kush
was the father of Nimrod. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Nimrod
became mighty in the earth (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Genesis 10:8</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">).</span>
<span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">His name is similar to the Hebrew word for "rebellion," and
traditionally, he was considered a dictator and tyrant. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Nations
founded by Nimrod, including Nineveh, Assyria, and Babel, will become some of
Israel's chief enemies. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
is suggested he was a “<i>hunter</i>” of God’s people. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He
also built the Tower of Babel, the epitome of rebellion. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 238.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level7 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Trying to get into heaven by any other means but
submission to Yahweh. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kush is now Sudan in Africa, just below
Egypt. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
see Philip befriend a believer who read the word and even traveled to worship
but lacked understanding</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God
brought Philip to this Ethiopian so that he would grow spiritually and in
understanding because his heart was right, but he lacked knowledge and wisdom,
which Philip supplied.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Philip
explained the scripture and Jesus, and the eunuch confessed, believed in Christ,
and was baptized through their meeting and brief friendship.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Side
note: this is the second instance we read of the Jews ministering to Samaritans,
as well as to an Ethiopian citizen and official of an enemy state to the Jews.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Remember,
we are not enemies of God because of the place in which we live, or the rulers
over us, our nationality or race. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
are separated from God because of sin and need confession, repentance, and
calling on the name of the Lord to save us. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
have friends with all sorts of beliefs and hope to bring them to light. If ever
our relationships reach a point where I can no longer be a positive influence,
I focus my friendships elsewhere. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 10:12-14</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Now as you enter the house, give it your greeting. 13 And if the house is
worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace
return to you. 14 And whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you
leave that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Colossians
tells us why we should move on from unfruitful relationships.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Colossians 4:5-6 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Walk
in </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">wisdom</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
toward outsiders, <u>redeeming the time</u>. 6 Let your words </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">always</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> be with <u>grace</u>, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">seasoned</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with <u>salt</u>,
so that you will know how you should answer each person.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Walking
with wisdom means watching for opportunities, as we just read with Jesus, the
Samaritan girl, and Philip and the Ethiopian.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Redeeming the time</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> means making the most of
it with others. Not idle chit-chat, but looking for opportunities to grow them
closer to the Lord.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Always
speak gracefully, but your words are seasoned with salt.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
is how we teach others about God’s will, the Lord’s desire, and the Holy
Spirit’s empowerment. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Be open and honest about your faith. Answer
questions and genuinely share your experiences from your heart.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Encouraging and uplifting
friends</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
are there for them, helping whenever we can <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
celebrate their successes and offer kindness during their struggles <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
pray for them and offer scriptures to uplift them. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Proverbs 27:17</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Iron sharpens Iron, so one man sharpens another.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Thessalonians 5:11</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Therefore, comfort one another and build up one
another, just as you also are doing.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Hebrews 10:24-25</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “let
us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, 25 not
forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging
one another, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Being a “Christ-like” example
to friends</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our
actions are an example to them (living as one imitating the Lord) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
reflect God’s character through the Spiritual Fruit. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Be
someone who draws them to the Lord, not away from</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Philippians 2:3-4; 1 Corinthians 11:1; Titus 2:7-8</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">WE SHARE OUR FAITH THROUGH
FRIENDSHIPS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Open communication is an opportunity
for ministry</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friendship
is a bridge to faith <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Inviting friends to church
and church events</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Invite
them to join you for worship service <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Or
faith-based church activities <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Or
for a one-on-one bible study or group</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
may feel unqualified to lead a study, but that’s OK. You learn together. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There
are plenty of trustworthy studies to guide you. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">My
book, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Drowning in Milk: A Guide to Spiritual
Maturity</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, is a great way to start. It has group studies at
the back of the book to guide you through small group discussions.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Leading by our example</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Live
your faith authentically</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
<i>should</i> be the same at home as you are at church <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
you are not, then you need to mature spiritually. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Your
actions will always speak louder than your words. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Be
someone who lives the things you say you do <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some may say, <i>“Well, I believe Jesus is God…”</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Good. </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 John 5:3</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
says, “For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His
commandments are not burdensome.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 John 2:3-4</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
says, “By this, we know that we have come to know him if we keep His
commandments. Whoever says, “I know Him” but does not keep His commandments is
a liar, and the truth is not in him.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Do you reject the world? You can either be godly or
worldly. You cannot be both. (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 John 2:15-16; James 4:4; 1
John 3:13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Are you repenting from your sins? </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 John 3:9</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “No one born of God
makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep
on sinning, because he has been born of God.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 John 3:5-6; 1 John 5:18; 1
John 2:29; 1 John 3:10 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If we are to lead others, we must be right, not
blind. The ONLY way to be correct and not blind is to fill yourself with the
Word of God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Reject false teachings (you must know true
teachings), and examine yourself (you must know the measure from the word). <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We may be able to pretend for others, act the part, and
put on the show when others are around, but we will not deceive God. And,
eventually, you will reveal yourself to others in the way you talk and act and
by the things you allow and do in your life. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 12:33-34</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Either
make the tree <u>good and its fruit good</u>, or make the tree <u>bad and its
fruit bad</u>; </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">for the tree is known by its
fruit</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. 34 You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil,
speak what is good? </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">For the mouth speaks out of
that which fills the heart.</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What is your heart filled with? You may not even
realize people are hearing the truth from your very lips. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If we are not honest with ourselves and others, they
will make assumptions about God because of us. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One assumption may be that no God exists because he
says one thing but does another. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Or, why would I want this God? Because this guy is
no different than me (or the world). <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 5:13</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how will
it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown
out to be trampled under foot by men.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We need to be honest with ourselves because not only
does our relationship with the Lord depend on it, but so does our relationship
with our spouse, children, neighbors, family, friends, and ministry for the
Lord.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">FRIENDSHIP IS A SUPPORT
SYSTEM FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Praying for our friends</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 18:20; James 5:16; Acts 12:5 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For
their growth, well-being</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For
their needs and concerns</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Studying scripture together</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Acts 8:30-35; 2 Timothy 2:15; Proverbs 27:17 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Invite
them to bible studies and small groups</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
have a couple starting up this summer!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Read
scripture together and discuss its meaning and impact.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Holding each other
accountable</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Galatians 6:1-2; Ecclesiastes 4:9-10; Proverbs 27:5-6 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">By
the way, this can only be done by judging others…</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
judge their fruits and know where the needs are</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What
about “<i>Don’t judge</i>”?</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Don’t
stop reading at </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 7:1</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">…</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 7:3-5</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “why
do you look at the </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">speck</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
that is in your brother’s eye, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">but do not notice the log
that is in your own eye</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">? 4 Or how can you say to
your brother, ‘Let me take the </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">speck</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
out of your eye,’ and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">behold, the log is in your
own eye</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">? </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">5 You </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">hypocrite</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, <u>first
take the log out of your own eye</u>, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">and then you
will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">First,
we examine ourselves and get right by taking our plank out…THEN we can judge
and help our brother!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
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</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
offer help, encouragement, and support so you can grow in the Lord!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br /></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our friendships are a great way to serve the Lord
and grow spiritually with others. When we have healthy Christian relationships,
we serve the Lord, increase His kingdom, and strengthen ourselves and others
through the process! <br /></span></p>
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Giving </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">|<i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i></span></b><a href="https://www.ps127.org/tithes-offerings"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Tithes & Offerings</span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Books by Rev. Shields </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><a href="https://www.bruceshields.us/my-books"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Author Website</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Serving
the Lord</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 6: Serving the Lord in our Home</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">By Rev.
Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may hear the
full audio of the sermon by following the link to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament
#jesuslovesyou #churchfamily #godsword #loveoneanother #holy #godislove #church
#jesus #god #bible #christian #love #faith #worship #jesuschrist #gospel
#prayer #christ #christianity #pray #holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed
#armorofgod</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> to Serving</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Faith</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Relationships</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Marriage</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Family</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord in our Home</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. March 10<sup>th</sup>,
2024</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Over
the last few weeks, we have talked about how the Lord has called us to serve
Him and the many ways in which we can do that in our lives. It begins with our
personal relationship with Him. We honor and serve the Lord by submitting to
His Holy Spirit and allowing the fruit of His spirit to be present in our
lives.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Biblical love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As we
mature spiritually in the Lord, we discover that our strength comes from Him.
He is our tower and mighty fortress. He endows us with His Holy Spirit, giving
us the full armor of God so that we may face this world with confidence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Lord also gives each of us spiritual gifts. We spoke about how these gifts are explicitly
for us to build, strengthen and edify the Body of Believers, which is the true
church, the Body of Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
followers of Christ, called to serve the Lord, we may sometimes struggle with
understanding the “how” to serve Him and what we are to do. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
our series so far, we have examined how serving the Lord begins with our
relationship with the Lord and expands into serving the Lord through
relationships with others, how we serve in honoring our marriage, and last week,
we discussed serving the Lord through our families.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s
Topic: Serving the Lord: Through in our Homes</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Joshua 23:15</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“If it is evil in your sight to serve God, choose
for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers
served which were beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land
you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In the book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, who also
wrote The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, said, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text";">“</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">We might think that God
wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a
particular sort.</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text";">”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">A FOUNDATION OF NURTURING
SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND FAITH</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">We are to teach our children
the ways of God.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“These
words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. 7 You shall
teach them diligently to your sons and shall speak of them when you sit in your
house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.”
</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Deuteronomy 6:6-7</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Our godly home is where God
is heeded.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“seeing
that His divine power </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">has granted to us</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the full knowledge of Him
who called us by His own glory and excellence. <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and
magnificent promises, so that </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">by them</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
you may become partakers of the divine nature, <u>having escaped the corruption
that is in the world by lust</u>. <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">5 Now for this very reason also, applying all
diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence,
knowledge, 6 and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control,
perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, 7 and in your godliness,
brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">spiritually maturing</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">8 <u>For if these things are yours and are
increasing</u>, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the full
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">9 For in whom these things </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">are not</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> present, that one is
blind, being nearsighted, having forgotten the purification from his former
sins. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">forgetting they were set free
from the bondage of sin by salvation</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10 Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to
make your calling and choosing sure; for in doing these things, you will never
stumble; 11 for in this way the entrance into </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">the
eternal kingdom of our Lord</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> and Savior Jesus Christ </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">will be abundantly supplied to you</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">2 Peter 1:3-11</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
we want to build godly homes, we must act godly in our homes. We can’t just
acknowledge our need for God. We must obey Him. We must choose godly words,
godly attitudes, and godly actions. Heeding God’s Word is what distinguishes
godly homes from other homes.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">We are to raise our children
with discipline and instruction from the Lord</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Godliness
requires training</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“For
the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12 instructing us
that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live sensibly,
righteously, and godly in the present age” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Titus
2:11-12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Fathers,
do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and
instruction of the Lord.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 6:4</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Training
in godliness is not easy, especially in this present age where so many
influences seem committed to training us in ungodliness. But the greatest
threat to my home is not the ungodliness on the outside. The most significant
threats to my home are the ungodly passions still living inside my heart.
Because those passions remain in me, they often spill out onto others in my
home. That is a reality for every family. That is why every family needs
training in godliness. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Godliness
is something we must pursue <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“But
you, O man of God, flee from these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness,
faith, love, perseverance, gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith. Take
hold of the eternal life to which you were called…” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Timothy 6:11-12a</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">A HAVEN OF BIBLICAL LOVE,
STABILITY AND PEACE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Our godly home is a place of
peace, not chaos</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“So,
as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness,
humility, gentleness, and patience; 13 bearing with one another, and graciously
forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone, just as the Lord
graciously forgave you, so also should you. 14 Above all these things put on
love, which is the perfect bond of unity. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule
in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body, and be thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly,” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Colossians
3:12-16</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“knowing
their thoughts He said to them, “Any kingdom divided against itself is laid
waste; and any city or house divided against itself will not stand.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 12:25</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Our godly home is a place of
biblical love.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
have spoken many times over the last few months about biblical love and how it
differs from the love of the world. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Understanding
the difference is paramount and required to live godly lives, have healthy
relationships, and serve the Lord properly. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Throughout
scripture, we see examples of godly love and how it is sacrificial and for the
benefit of others. Actions that may bring feelings and emotions but are not
feelings and emotions in themselves. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because
you can have feelings and emotions without biblical sacrificial love. This is
the feel-good, emotional, irrational, usually lust-driven, so-called
unconditional, but generally very conditional, love of the world, which is
almost always self-serving. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
have all experienced the “never-ending love and adoration” of someone whose
words did not align with their actions. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">True
biblical love begins with sacrificial actions serving others, which bring about
feelings and emotions because the person's actions match the words. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Biblical
love of </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">I Corinthians 13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> is
the sacrificial action of putting another's interest before your own.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Our godly home is stable,
drawing its strength from God.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Therefore
everyone who hears these words of Mine and does them, may be compared to a wise
man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain descended, and the rivers
came, and the winds blew and fell against that house; and yet it did not fall,
for it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone hearing these words of
Mine and not doing them, may be compared to a foolish man who built his house
on the sand. 27 And the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blew
and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 7:24-27 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
godly home serving the Lord is a home your family knows is stable, safe,
nurturing, and whole.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Over
the last 20 years, even when I served as an elder and then interim pastor for
the Baptist church, Terri and I hosted Adult Bible Study in our home. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Her
gift of hospitality and ability to cook made her a great hostess.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Many
times, when people would come for the first time or even to visit, we would
hear the same compliments repeatedly. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
love your home. You can feel peace here. You can really feel God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
even had non-Christian visitors making some of the same statements. Why? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
was not because Terri and I “<i>did</i>” something to make it that way. Instead,
we worked hard at not doing what we know is contrary to the Spirit of God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That’s what submission to the Lord means <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Staying out of the way of God working
in your life and not quenching His Holy Spirit as He works. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
it begins with reading God’s word and submitting to His Spirit.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">A BEACON OF HOSPITALITY AND
SHARING GOD’S BLESSINGS WITH OTHERS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">A godly home is hospitable
and blesses others.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Let
love be without hypocrisy—by abhorring what is evil, clinging to what is good,
10 being devoted to one another in brotherly love, giving preference to one
another in honor, 11 not lagging behind in diligence, being fervent in spirit,
serving the Lord, 12 rejoicing in hope, persevering in affliction, being
devoted to prayer, 13 contributing to the needs of the saints, pursuing
hospitality.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 12:9-13</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">A godly home is a safe haven,
sanctuary, an embassy of God</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Whoever
steps into a godly home should sense the influence of Christ. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
doesn’t mean a bunch of crosses on the wall, Jesus pictures all over the house,
or bibles on every end table…but an overall attitude of strength in the Lord, structure
in the home, peace in the valley, godly counsel when applicable, love and
kindness, even to strangers, and sharing what the Lord has given you with
others. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
safe place, even for those who do not know the Lord…especially for those who do
not. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some
of the worst treatment I have received over the last 20-plus years as a
Christian has been from those within the church. Some were from my
congregation, some from other congregations, and some were even Bishops and
leaders of various denominations I have worked with. They all have two things
in common. They all called me a friend at one point and claimed to be
Christian. <br /></span></p>
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</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
should never be. <br /></span></p>
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</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“A
good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every
tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So
then<u>, you will know them by their fruits</u>.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 7:18-20</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Actions
trump words. Are the actions sacrificial or self-serving? Good or bad fruit?</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">A godly home does not happen
overnight.</span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
takes time, hard work, devotion, dedication, and tenacity, but no matter the
time it takes, the reward is great.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Having a godly home begins with your relationship
with the Lord. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Romans 3:23</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> tells us that we have all sinned and fallen short
of God’s glory. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Romans also tells us that the wages of sin
are death, but that while we were still sinners, Christ died to pay that debt. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Anyone who confesses that Jesus is Lord and believes God raised Him from
the dead will be saved. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What is “saved”? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Saved from the debt your sin is owed, which is eternal separation from
God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But in Christ Jesus, there is no condemnation. His promise is eternal,
and we will live in His presence.</span></p>
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the Lord</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 5: Serving the Lord Through Our Family</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">By Rev.
Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may hear the
full audio of the sermon by following the link to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament
#jesuslovesyou #churchfamily #godsword #loveoneanother #holy #godislove #church
#jesus #god #bible #christian #love #faith #worship #jesuschrist #gospel
#prayer #christ #christianity #pray #holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed
#armorofgod</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> to Serving</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Faith</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Relationships</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Marriage</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Family</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. March 3<sup>rd</sup>,
2024</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Today,
we will take what we have learned so far: serving God with our faith, our relationships,
our marriage, and how we serve the Lord in our family, or more specifically, by
leading a godly family.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Deuteronomy 6:4-7</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Hear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yahweh is one!
“You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your might. “These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on
your heart. “You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall speak of
them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie
down and when you rise up.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s Topic: Serving the Lord: Through Our Family</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">BUILDING A FOUNDATION OF
FAITH IN THE FAMILY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Love the Lord your God</span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
is your responsibility to instill a love for God in your family <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Read
from the bible and discuss what you read. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Deuteronomy 10:12-13</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“So now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God ask from you, but to fear Yahweh
your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve Yahweh your God
with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of
Yahweh and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 22:36-40 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Teacher,
which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He said to him, “‘You shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with
all your mind.’ 38 This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 And the
second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two
commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.”<br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Teach your children</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Diligently
share your faith with your children <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Talk
about God throughout the day, not just at designated times. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Include
God in your regular discussions and decision-making. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Deuteronomy 6:6-9</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. “You
shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall speak of them when you sit
in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you
rise up. “You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as
phylacteries between your eyes. “You shall write them on the doorposts of your
house and on your gates.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 6:4</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Fathers,
do not </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">provoke</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of
the Lord.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Colossians 3:21</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Fathers,
do not </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">exasperate</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
your children, so that they will not lose heart.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Also;
</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Proverbs 22:6; Proverbs 13:24</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Live by example</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There
is no greater teacher than your example <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As
their father, you are a picture of God the Father Himself. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 5:1-2</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, 2 and walk in love, just
as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice
to God.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
your life, choices, decisions, and path are not “influenced” but directed by
God, you will be a godly example! <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">However,
if God is nothing more than an after-thought, a passing word that is rarely
mentioned, you are also teaching your children by example. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
are telling them the church is not really important. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You should go, unless you have
something else to do <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Bible is a good book.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What about reading it?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Study?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Every day? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Your
children WILL learn the most about God through how you live, how you act, what
you allow and do not allow, how you speak (to people and about people) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
know decent Christians who believe they live as good examples but fail to
examine themselves. In idle times, not paying attention, their actions, words,
and deeds do not line up with the word of God, and they unintentionally teach
this to their children. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Racism is a taught behavior.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Apathy towards the lost</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Disregard for those in need</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pride/arrogance…children with a
superiority complex <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Your
children are always watching, always listening, and always learning from you. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">2 Corinthians 13:5</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you
not recognize about yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you
fail the test?” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Also;
</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Timothy 4:12; Titus 2:7-8</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Colossians 3:12-15</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “So,
as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness,
humility, gentleness, and patience; 13 bearing with one another, and graciously
forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone, just as the Lord
graciously forgave you, so also should you. 14 Above all these things put on
love, which is the perfect bond of unity. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule
in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body, and be thankful.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">NURTURING THE FAMILY WITH
BIBLICAL LOVE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Love one another…biblically <br /></span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 John 4:7-10 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“<u>Beloved,
let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves has been
born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God,
because God is love.</u></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">9 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">By this</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the love of God was </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">manifested in us</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live
through Him. 10 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">In this is love</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
not that we have loved God, but that <u>He loved us and sent His Son to be the
propitiation for our sins</u>.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Where
are feelings?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Where
are emotions?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Where
is the flesh and its desires in biblical love?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Nowhere to be found <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because
love is not the flesh, feelings nor emotions which are unstable, unreliable,
and unpredictable <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Instead,
true biblical love is sacrificial actions for the benefit of another. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sacrifice
that leads to the good (either salvation of or spiritual maturity of) another
person for no benefit or reward other than your fulfillment and obedience to
the call of God on His people to love others. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Are
you striving to give that sacrificial action (works) toward those in your
family to bring them Salvation or spiritual maturity in the Lord? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">That</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> is the <i>“love of God manifested in us.”</i> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">YES…real love will manifest feelings, emotions, and desires
in romantic situations with your spouse. However, these in themselves are NOT
love! <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Feelings, emotions, and romantic desires can be
artificially re-created WITHOUT any proper God-like sacrificial actions. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“When he brings all his own out, he goes ahead of
them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> ~</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">John 10:4</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the
same way in which he walked</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.” </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">~ 1 John 2:6</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And this is why we do not follow the flesh and its
desires, but rather, by walking in the Spirit. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Forgive</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Teach
forgiveness <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
you do not forgive (not just family and friends, but strangers and enemies),
you are teaching your children that God holds grudges and unforgiveness and
that forgiveness must be <i>“earned.”</i> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
were forgiven by the Lord without cost.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“And
to the one who does not work but believes in[a] him who justifies the ungodly,
his faith is counted as righteousness” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">~ Romans 4:5</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
were forgiven while yet sinners.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“but
God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for
us.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">~ Romans 5:8</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
forgive because we were forgiven.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Be
kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ
forgave you.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">~ Ephesians 4:32</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
we forgive, we teach the grace of the Lord.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“For
if you forgive </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">others</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">[ <u>ανθρωπος</u> / <u>anthropos</u> – “<i>inclusive</i>” Greek
word meaning ALL of mankind]</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> for their transgressions,
your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive, then
your Father will not forgive your transgressions.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">~ Matthew 6:14</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 112.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Serve with a joyful heart.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving
the Lord (through your personal relationship with God, your marriage, your
family, your church, church activities, other members, strangers, the
community) with a JOYFUL heart MAKES US imitators of Christ Jesus and the
example the Lord calls us to be to our family and children! <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
always be mindful to use your gifts to bless others…your children see this as
well!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“not forsaking our own assembling together, as is
the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the
day drawing near.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">~ Hebrews 10:25</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Remember, gathering together to worship the Lord,
surrounding yourself with other believers, and attending church will only be a
priority in your children's lives if it is yours!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I met a woman once who was angry her adult son
didn’t attend church. I asked her where she attended, and she said nowhere…</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">GROWING TOGETHER IN FAITH</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Read your bible and discuss
scripture.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
<i>should</i> be able to read verses and discuss their meaning with your
children. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
NEW believer can read the text with their children and discuss its meaning. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">NEVER
be afraid to answer with, <i>“I’m not sure…let’s look it up!”</i> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It’s
good to teach your children that we may not have an understanding of every
single oracle in scripture. However, we can always study and find out! <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Talk
about applying it to your daily life <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Pray and teach your children
to pray</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Don’t
just spew forth a memorized prayer <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
is not how we speak to the Lord!</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 6:7</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “And when you are
praying, do not use </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">meaningless repetition</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> as
the Gentiles do, <u>for they suppose that they will be heard for their many
words</u>.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Repetitive/memorized
prayers, such as before a meal or bedtime, become a meaningless ritual that has
nothing to do with biblical prayer. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Neither
do long prayers filled with words you wouldn’t speak in real-life conversation or
long incantations in order to “<i>charm</i>” the listeners into thinking you
are more holy or religious than you actually are. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Lord’s prayer, which follows </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 6:7</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> is
not something to be memorized and repeated to God. Instead, Jesus said in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">verse 9</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, <i>“Pray </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">in this way.</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How do we know that Jesus does not mean
to pray these exact words? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because Jesus JUST WARNED US NOT TO
PRAY WITH MINDLESS REPETITION in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">verse 7</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">! <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
need to encourage prayer for others and their needs and the world around us. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Also;
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Proverbs 22:6</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Seek fellowship as a family.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">SEEK/ENCOURAGE
the fellowship and church <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Participate
in church/community fellowship events. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">JOYFULLY
attend weekly church services <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Join
small groups and build Christian relationships. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serve
your spouse, family, church, and community FOR THE LORD.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How we conduct our lives is the most significant
teacher our children have. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ensure your life is filled with biblical teachings
in ALL areas. <br /></span></p>
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WEEK:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Serving the Lord
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Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-76636592302349561502024-02-26T08:56:00.003-05:002024-02-26T08:56:44.508-05:00Serving the Lord Part 4: Serving the Lord Through Our Marriage<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://the-truth-digest.blogspot.com/p/sermon-archive.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Previous messages by Rev. B. A. Shields found here</span></i></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
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Giving </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">|<i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i></span></b><a href="https://www.ps127.org/tithes-offerings"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Tithes & Offerings</span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Books by Rev. Shields </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><a href="https://www.bruceshields.us/my-books"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Author Website</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Serving
the Lord</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 4: Serving the Lord Through Our Marriage</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">By Rev.
Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may hear the
full audio of the sermon by following the link to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> to Serving</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord Through Our Faith</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Relationships</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Marriage</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. February 25<sup>th</sup>,
2024</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Over
the last few weeks, we have looked closely at how we can be “doers” of the word
and serve the Lord in various aspects of our lives. It can sometimes be challenging
to put our knowledge of the word and love for the Lord into tangible actions to
serve faithfully.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Some
ways of serving are apparent, such as missionary, teacher, and pastor. However,
the work of the Lord goes much further than this, and there are many ways we
can faithfully serve the Lord in our daily lives without trying to be Moses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
fact, we are not called to be Moses, Paul, King David, or anyone else in the
word of God. We may relate with these people and feel a bond or connection to
them because of the writings in scripture, but we are not called to be them. We
are called to be imitators of God, to have a mind like Christ, to listen to the
leading of the Holy Spirit, and to serve the Lord however He chooses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This
may look like a street preacher sharing the Good News with strangers or
spending many hours each week in deep intercessory prayer for others. It may be
serving the Lord through community service and volunteer work at shelters or
gathering food and goods for those with emergency needs. It may be teaching
children at your local church or leading a bible study at home.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
want us to expand our minds in this series and train ourselves to not only
listen to the prompting of the Holy Spirit but act on it and be ever mindful
and aware of opportunities in our lives to serve the Lord and bring Him glory.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That
is why He has called us, purified us, empowered us, and leads us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Many
times, when our faith in Christ is attacked, slanderous accusations, such as
“mindless sheep,” are sometimes used as a statement of ignorant or puppet
followers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But I
want you to consider when the scriptures speaking of the sheep and shepherd
were written, who they were written for, and what the purpose of the vocabulary
is meant to accomplish.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Firstly,
we know the Good Shepherd is Jesus, and He cares for His sheep, knows them by
name, and would leave the 99 for the one who wandered. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>His
rod and staff, the shepherd trade's tools, comfort us. The staff had a hook for
pulling sheep from the thicket, returning them to the flock, or redirecting
their path. The rod was for discipline and correction of the stubborn and
protection of the flock from snakes, wolves, and lions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But
the sheep…us. We are not mindless followers as accused. Sheep in biblical times
needed care. They needed guidance and protection in the wilderness because they
could not protect themselves. This is a perfect picture of us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But
sheep are far from mindless wastes. They were more than just useful. They were
treasured by the shepherd. Their wool was valuable, as was their milk and meat.
Flocks were wealth. The sheep served many purposes for the shepherd and were
highly sought after and treasured by him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This
is why we are spoken of in this manner, and Jesus is the Sheperd. So the
listeners would understand the relationship between us and the Lord, which they
did. Today, however, most people have never set foot on a farm, let alone have
the slightest idea of what sheep are useful for.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So to
the ignorant aggressors against faith and the word of God, we remain to them
mindless sheep while simultaneously to our Lord, we are precious and valuable, worth
far more than gold and silver.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So as
we explore our usefulness to the Lord and the many ways we may serve Him, let's
look at how we can serve Him in our marriage.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Hebrews 13:1-6</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Let love of the brothers continue. 2 Do not neglect
to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels
without knowing it. 3 Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them,
and those who are mistreated, since you yourselves also are in the body. 4 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Marriage is to be held
in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled, for the sexually
immoral and adulterers God will judge.</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 5 Make sure that your way of life is free from the love of money, being
content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you,
nor will I ever forsake you,” 6 so that we confidently say, “The Lord is my
helper, I will not be afraid. What will man do to me?”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s Topic: Serving the Lord: Through Our Marriage</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Hebrews
13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, Paul describes
various ways we serve the Lord in our lives. Listed among them is Marriage.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He says Marriage is to be honored among all, and the
marriage bed is to be undefiled. The sexually immoral and adulterers God will
judge.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I don’t think I need to explain to you the things that
defile a marriage bed today. I believe we all know pretty well what sexual
immorality and adultery are and that God will judge those.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I want us to focus on the message we serve the Lord
in our marriage. We need to hold our marriages in honor, all of us. We serve
the Lord and His Kingdom when we serve Him in our marriage.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">LOVE AND RESPECT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Respect, love, and submission
go both ways.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
is arguably the most crucial aspect, as </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Ephesians
5:21-25</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> emphasizes the love and respect spouses should have
for one another, mirroring the relationship between Christ and the church. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Husbands,
if your character or behavior towards your wife ever comes into question, ask
yourself if you were treating her in the way Christ treats the Church. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Wives,
if your character or behavior towards your husband is ever questioned, ask
yourself, is this the way the Church should treat the Lord? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Understand
this. Your husband is not the Lord (Capital “L”). <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
Lord did not put your husband as overlord or master of what you say and do, but
uses His love and relationships with the Church as examples for husband and
wife when considering their love and relationship with each other. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
proper marriage is a witness and a blessing to the Lord and the Body of Christ. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
concept, interpreted as both spouses submitting to one another and to God (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Ephesians 5:21</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">), emphasizes </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">putting your spouse's needs and God's will above your own.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
doesn't imply one spouse having absolute authority but rather a focus on
cooperation and joint decision-making. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Ephesians 5:21-25 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Communication</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Maintaining
open and honest communication is essential for a healthy relationship. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Proverbs 15:22</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> emphasizes the
importance of counsel and communication. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Proverbs 15:22 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Without
consultation, plans are frustrated, But with many counselors they succeed.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">No
person of sound mind has ever said, I hope my marriage fails.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
council of righteous men and women in godly relationships can help you. Seek
council on matters, and your frustrations will turn into successes. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This was the foundational thought
behind Birth of a Family.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Live
with Integrity and Honesty: Committing to honesty and integrity within your
marriage and in all aspects of life reflects a commitment to God's character,
as He is seen as the epitome of truth and faithfulness. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Proverbs 12:22</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, But doers of faithfulness are His
delight.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">What this tells us</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">These
verses outline the mutual love and respect that should be present in a
marriage, mirroring the relationship between Christ and the church. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">UNITY AND SUBMISSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Submitting to one another</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">1 Peter 3:1-6 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“In the same way, you </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">wives</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">, be subject </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">to your own</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> husbands so that
even if any of them are disobedient to the word, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">they may be won without a word
by the conduct of their wives</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">, 2 as
they observe your </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">pure
conduct with fear</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">. </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">3 Your adornment must not be merely external—<u>braiding
the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on garments</u>; 4 but let it be
</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">the hidden</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">person
of the heart</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">, with the incorruptible
quality of a <u>lowly and quiet spirit</u>, which is </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">precious</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> in the sight of God. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">5 For in </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">this way</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> in former times the holy women
also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being subject to their own
husbands, 6 just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord </span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">(lower case “l” [κ</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ύ</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ριος:</span> <span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">koo'-ree-os] used in this way as masculine “head of the house”</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">).<i> You have become her children <u>if you do good</u>,
not fearing any </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">intimidation</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">.”</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Better translated, </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“Whose daughters you are, as long as you obey the
Lord </span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">(capital “L”),<i> which will
remove all fear.”</i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Engaging in activities like praying, reading the
Bible, and attending church services together can strengthen your bond and
joint commitment to faith. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Colossians
3:16</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> highlights the importance of
building each other up with spiritual songs and hymns.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Putting
the other before yourself IS love (<i>I Corinthians 13</i>)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Philippians 2:1-4 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ,
if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit,
if any affection and compassion, 2 fulfill my joy, that you think the same way,
by maintaining the same love, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">being
united in spirit</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">, thinking on </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">one purpose</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">, 3 doing nothing from <u>selfish ambition or vain
glory</u>, but with </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">humility</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> of mind <u>regarding one another as more important
than yourselves</u>, 4 not merely looking out for your own personal interests,
but <u>also for the interests of others</u>.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Expressing love and respect through physical touch
and intimacy reflects God's love for the church (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Ephesians 5:25-28</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">). However, it's essential
to understand that this should always be a consensual expression <i>within</i>
the bounds of marriage.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Supporting each other's personal spiritual growth
through prayer, encouragement, and offering space for individual spiritual
disciplines can deepen your individual and joint connection to God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Serving others within your community or church together
as a couple reflects God's love and demonstrates the teachings of Christ to
love thy neighbor (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Galatians
5:13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">What
this tells us</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">These verses emphasize prioritizing unity and
cooperation within the marriage. While not always explicitly using the word
"<i>submission</i>," the idea of "looking to the interests of
others" and prioritizing togetherness can be interpreted as a form of </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">mutual submission</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> within the marriage covenant.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">WITNESS AND SERVICE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Be a witness to others and
your spouse.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 5:16 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Let
your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works,
and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Forgive and Seek Forgiveness</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Recognizing
that everyone makes mistakes and practicing forgiveness reflects God's
forgiveness for us. Additionally, being open to receiving forgiveness from your
spouse when you have wronged them fosters reconciliation and strengthens the
bond (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 6:14-15</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">). <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">What this tells us</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">These verses highlight the potential for a
Christ-centered marriage to be a witness, firstly to our spouse and secondly to
others, and serve as a reflection of God's love and character in the world. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Spouses can support each other in their
individual service and ministries, acting as a united force for the work of
God.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our marriage covenant we make with our spouse and our
Father in heaven is a picture of Christ’s covenant with His church and our
Father in heaven. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is why the sanctity of marriage is so essential
and why biblical marriage must not be redefined because it is a direct link
between Christ and His church. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our marriage, being a picture of the New Covenant relationships
between Christ and the Church, is a witness to others and a way we can serve
the Lord through our lives as doers of His word. <br /></span></p>
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Part 5: Serving in our Home</span></p>
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Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-79859953888425015142024-02-19T09:34:00.002-05:002024-02-19T09:34:49.352-05:00Serving the Lord Part 3: Serving the Lord Through Our Relationships<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://the-truth-digest.blogspot.com/p/sermon-archive.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Previous messages by Rev. B. A. Shields found here</span></i></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
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Giving </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">|<i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i></span></b><a href="https://www.ps127.org/tithes-offerings"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Tithes & Offerings</span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Books by Rev. Shields </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><a href="https://www.bruceshields.us/my-books"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Author Website</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Serving
the Lord</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 3: Serving the Lord Through Our Relationships</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">By Rev.
Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may hear the
full audio of the sermon by following the link to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament
#jesuslovesyou #churchfamily #godsword #loveoneanother #holy #godislove #church
#jesus #god #bible #christian #love #faith #worship #jesuschrist #gospel
#prayer #christ #christianity #pray #holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed
#armorofgod</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> to Serving</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord Through Our Faith</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord through our Relationships</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
</span></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. February 18<sup>th</sup>,
2024</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Last
week we talked about serving the Lord through our faith. Now we are going to
look at how our faith should be transformed into actions. We know in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">James 1:22</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> it tells us to be doers of the word, and not just
listeners, because if you listen without doing, you are deceiving yourselves
into thinking you have a faith that saves.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span> </span>James explains in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">James
2</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> that knowing what
you should do is not equal to doing it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">James 2:14-17; 26</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“14 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">What
use is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but he has no works?</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister
is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them,
“Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is
necessary for their body, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">what
use is that?</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead by
itself.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">26 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">For
just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is
dead</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If my kitchen is on
fire, I can “know” there is a fire extinguisher under the sink. I can “know” it
is up to date and fully charged, because I check it regularly. I can “know how”
to use it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As ridiculous as it
sounds, what if I pick it up and spray myself instead of the fire. Or, instead,
throw the extinguisher at the fire instead of pulling the safety pin and
sraying the fire?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You see, if I do not </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">pick it up</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> and, not only </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">use it</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, but </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">use it properly</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, it is of no use at all. And to think otherwise, I
deceive myself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is how the word of God works. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We can read it, memorize
it, know it, understand it, love it, but if we are not “doers” of that word, we
are deluded.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s Topic: Serving the Lord: Through Our Relationships</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Last week, we looked at serving the Lord through our
faith with works. We talked about being doers and how important it was to have
works that showed our true repentance and made our faith complete.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our faith takes place within us. We must first serve
the Lord within us before we can be useful to the Lord elsewhere in our lives. If
not founded in our faith, works alone are nothing more than good works, and
they will not save you. We must have Christ, and our faith in Him drives us to
have works that make our faith complete and alive. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This week, we will examine how to serve the Lord
through our relationships with others. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">SERVING THE LORD THROUGH
RELATIONSHIPS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">What is serving?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Showing
the Love of Christ to others is serving the Lord. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Every
interaction, every relationship, becomes an opportunity to reflect the love of
God and be a light in this dark world. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Isn’t
Jesus the Light of the world? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
said in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 5:13-16</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how will
it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown
out to be trampled under foot by men. <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a
hill cannot be hidden; 15 nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a
basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.
16 Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
says YOU are the light of this world.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
are supposed to be the light upon a hill drawing wayward travelers into the
light of Christ you reflect.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">What is the Love of Christ?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Many
Christians claim to have the love of Christ or claim they have the love of God,
but in reality, they confuse their emotions and feelings for love, not
understanding what the Love of God truly is.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It has
nothing to do with warm fuzzies, good feelings, or sweet emotions.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
love of God is <i>NOT</i> a feeling or emotion, so says scripture</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 5</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> tells us to <i>“love your <u>enemies</u>,
and do good to those who <u>hate</u> you.”</i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If you have an enemy or someone who
hates you, how do you think your “feelings” are toward them? What emotions do
you have toward your enemies or those who hate, slander, or gossip about you?
Is it warm fuzzies?</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">No, it is not.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Yet, Jesus tells us to “<i>love</i>”
our enemies and “<i>do good</i>” to those who hate us.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
the love of God is not a feeling or emotion, what in the world is it?</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Let’s look at what the scriptures say love is <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">John 3:16a </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“For
God so </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">loved</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> the
world, that He </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">gave</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> His
only begotten Son”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Romans 5:8 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“God demonstrates
His own </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">love</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">died</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> for us.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So
God showed His </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">love</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> through
“<i><u>giving</u></i>” His only begotten Son, Jesus.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
the Lord showed His </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">love</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
toward us, even though we were still sinners, by “<i><u>dying.</u>”</i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Giving,
dying…neither of these is an emotion or a feeling, and definitely not a warm
fuzzy feeling.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They
are a choice to <i>express</i> godly love through a willful act of sacrifice. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">How can we show it, and why?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
tells us,</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“you
shall </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">love</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
the Lord your God </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">with</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
all </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">your heart</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
and with all </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">your soul</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
and with all </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">your mind</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
and with all </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">your strength</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">~ Mark 12:30 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So, to express your love toward God,
you willfully sacrifice and submit your heart, soul, mind, and strength to Him!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is loving God.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
then says in the next verse,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“…‘You
shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater
than these.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">~ Mark 12:31 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Show love to others (your neighbors) as
you would love (treat through willful action) yourself.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 7:12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “…in
all things, whatever you want people to do for you, so do for them, for this is
the Law and the Prophets.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How
does </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">I Corinthians 13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
describe love? (think about willful action)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“If
I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have
become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have the gift of prophecy,
and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to
remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my
possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do
not have love, it profits me nothing.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Verses 1-3 speak of speaking in
tongues, prophecy, knowledge, faith, and all these gifts of the Spirit, but no
love, and the gifts are wasted. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Godly love is the willful sacrificial
act or action for another. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">I Corinthians 13:4-8</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
continues with, <i>“Love is </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">patient</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
love is </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">kind</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
is </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">not jealous</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">does not brag</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">is not puffed up</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">; 5
</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">it does not act unbecomingly</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">does not seek its own</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">is not provoked</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">does not take into account a wrong suffered</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">; 6
</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">it does not rejoice in unrighteousness</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
but </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">rejoices with the truth</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">; 7
</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">it bears all things</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">believes all things</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">hopes all things</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">endures all things</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">8 <u>Love never fails</u>…” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Godly
love that never fails is the willful action of good toward others, AND, as we
read in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">I Corinthians 13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
the willful HOLDING BACK of actions opposing love. What love IS and IS NOT.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To
simplify how we love God, surrender (willful sacrificial action) our heart,
soul, mind, and strength.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To show
our love to the Lord; Jesus says In </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">John 14:15</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So,
when we devote ourselves and our lives to God and His word, we are showing Him
love, and when we obey the commands of Jesus, we are showing Him love.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>viii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goldy
love toward others is our willful actions obeying the Word of God, sacrificing
what our flesh wants, and substituting it with what the Spirit of God wills. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ix.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
treat others the way we do, not because of who we are but because of who the
Lord is, what God desires, and how the Spirit empowers us. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Walk
in the Spirit, not the flesh.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">SERVING WITH HUMILITY/FROM
THE HEART</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Your heart's intention</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Heart
intention is what matters to the Lord</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
“why” behind your actions is more important than the outcome</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Are
you saying and doing things for the right reasons or selfish motivations?</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Being humble</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Humility
is worth more than gold, especially to the Lord. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">James 4:10-11</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Humble
yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you. 11 Do not
slander one another, brothers. He who slanders a brother or judges his brother,
slanders the law and judges the law;” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Colossians 3:12-15</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “…as
the elect of God, holy and beloved</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">, put on</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> a <u>heart
of compassion</u>, <u>kindness</u>, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">humility</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, <u>gentleness</u>,
and <u>patience</u>; 13 <u>bearing with one another</u>, and graciously <u>forgiving
each other</u>, whoever has a complaint against anyone, just as the Lord
graciously forgave you, so also should you. 14 Above all these things <u>put on
love</u>, which is the perfect bond of unity. 15 And let <u>the peace of Christ
rule in your hearts</u>, to which indeed you were called in one body, <u>and be
thankful</u>…” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 23:12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“And whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall
be exalted.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Serving with purpose</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
do this in our relationships for a reason</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Not
just because the Lord commands us to, although that is reason enough <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
do these things to BE the salt of the earth and the light of the world. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
draws the lost, and we share the gospel that can free them from the bondage of
their sin and save their everlasting soul. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">TRANSLATING YOUR FAITH INTO
LOVE/ACTION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Service requires love and
action</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our
willful actions of sacrifice show the love of God through our actions <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our
humility translates our actions into kindness and gentleness and allows us to
have patience and the ability to bear with one another and forgive <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because
our humility reminds us we are no different than the lost, except for Christ <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">We are no different than the
lost, except Christ.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Without
the Spirit of God within me, I would immediately revert to the sinful, lost
soul I was before Christ Jesus. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Remembering
this in humility, the lost is no different than I save the Lord Jesus Christ.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Therefore, the us go forth
and shine. <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Therefore, let us go forth and shine, serving the
Lord in faith through our willful actions, having works worthy of our
repentance, fruit, which makes our faith complete, and the true love of God,
which makes us both the salt and light of this lost world.</span></p>
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WEEK:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Serving the Lord
Part 4: Serving through our Marriage</span></p>
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Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-15931640107878559502024-02-12T06:11:00.001-05:002024-02-12T06:11:26.981-05:00Serving the Lord Part 2: Serving the Lord Through Our Faith<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://the-truth-digest.blogspot.com/p/sermon-archive.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Previous messages by Rev. B. A. Shields found here</span></i></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
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Giving </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">|<i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i></span></b><a href="https://www.ps127.org/tithes-offerings"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Tithes & Offerings</span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Books by Rev. Shields </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><a href="https://www.bruceshields.us/my-books"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Author Website</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
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the Lord</span></b></p>
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Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
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full audio of the sermon by following the link to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> to Serving</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serving the Lord Through Our Faith</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. February 11<sup>th</sup>,
2024</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our
latest series will look at the various ways in which we serve the Lord. We were
not filled with the Spirit of God to go on with our lives as if there was no
work to be done in the name of the Lord.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>God
did not give us the Full Armor of God so we could go out to dinner and a movie in
peace.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
are not filled with the Gifts of the Holy Spirit so we can win at cards on a
Friday night.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>God
did not pluck us from the wicked vine so we could sit and rot until Judgment
Day. He redeemed us and filled us with the Spirit of God to serve Him, and we
must serve Him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Philippians 1:6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who
began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Will He be pleased if God redeemed you and filled
you with His Spirit, and you do nothing until Judgment Day? Jesus gives an
example of this scenario in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew
25</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew 25:24-30</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“And the one also who had received the one talent
came up and said, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did
not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed. 25 And I was afraid, and
went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">26 “But his master answered and said to him, ‘You
wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I
scattered no seed. 27 Therefore, you ought to have put my money [d]in the bank,
and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. 28
Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten
talents.’</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">29 “For to everyone who has, more shall be given,
and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he
does have shall be taken away. 30 And throw out the worthless slave into the
outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So,
the slave the master gave a talent to hid it and did not get any return on the
master's investment, and gave it back upon his return. The master called him a <i>worthless
slave</i> and cast him into outer darkness where there was weeping and gnashing
of teeth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jesus
sounds very serious about our service to Him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Luke 13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Jesus says, <i>“I tell you, I do not know where you
are from; depart from me, all you workers of UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. In that place
there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus repeats this in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew 8:11-12</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> about the “sons of the kingdom,” speaking of those who do not belong to
the Kingdom of Heaven.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And
again in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew
24</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> speaking of the
Second Coming, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew
22</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> in the parable of
the wedding feast and the man who tried to enter without being dressed for the
wedding…You know, covered and sealed with the Holy Spirit. If you are not
sealed, you are not dressed for the wedding and will not be allowed to enter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
believe Jesus makes His expectations quite clear and the punishment for not
obeying His command.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
are saved, called, and filled with purpose, His purpose, to fulfill the Will of
God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That
will of God is that He desires all to be saved and for us to use the Gifts
given by the Holy Spirit to accomplish this.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
must be saved and willing to be doers of the word to accomplish this.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">James 1:22</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “become doers of the word, and not merely hearers
who deceive themselves.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If you hear the word and do not act upon it, you are
deceiving yourself if you think you have the faith that saves. Works do not
save you but make your faith complete. Faith without works is dead faith and
cannot save you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">James 2:14-26</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“14 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">What
use is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but he has no works?</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister
is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them,
“Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is
necessary for their body, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">what
use is that?</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead by
itself.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">18 But someone will say, “You have faith; and I have
works. Show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my
works.” </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">19 You believe that God is one. You do well; the
demons also believe, and shudder. 20 But are you willing to recognize, you
foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works
when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 22 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">You see that faith was
working with his works</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">and
as a result of the works</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">faith
was perfected</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And
Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness,” and he was
called the friend of God. 24 You see that a man is justified by works and not
by faith alone. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">25 And in the same way, was not Rahab the harlot
also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by
another way? </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">26 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">For
just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is
dead</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s Topic: Serving the Lord: Through Our Faith</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">SERVING THE LORD IN OUR FAITH
WITH WORKS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Faith begins in you</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Philippians 1:6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“…He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ
Jesus.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Do
not quench the Holy Spirit; let Him work in you.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
are a work in progress until you meet the Lord.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Embrace
the Spirit of God, search His word for guidance in your call</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Use
the Spiritual Gifts the Lord gives you</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
begins in you, your heart and mind <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Allow the Holy Spirit to
change your heart and mind!<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Ezekiel 36:25-27a </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be
clean</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">; I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and
from all your idols. 26 Moreover, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">I will give
you a new heart and put a new spirit within you</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">;
and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">I will remove the heart of
stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 27
</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">I will put My Spirit within you and cause you
to walk in My statutes,” <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Lord gives us the Holy Spirit, and we are considered “clean.”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Lord gives us a new heart, for the world has made ours stone.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Lord puts His Spirit within us, which “CAUSES” us to walk in His statutes.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
is why it is essential to look at the pattern in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 28</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Make
disciples of all nations.</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Baptize
them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">THEN…teach
them to keep all that I command</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Spirit that the Lord places within us is HOW we obey all that Christ commands.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Being a “doer” of the Word is
commanded and possible<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
makes it clear, <i>“teach them to obey all that I command.”</i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Lord would not command us to do something impossible for us to do</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
IS possible when we have the Spirit of God.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Ephesians 6:10</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the might of His strength.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 11:28-30 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Come
to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My
yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you
will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Read
the word, do the word, be strong in the Lord, and in the might of His strength,
let the Spirit of God work in you and lead you into obedience.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">So our works done in faith
make our faith complete and us obedient to the word.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">WORKS WORTHY OF REPENTANCE <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Being Doers bears worthy
fruit.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 3:8-12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">bear fruit in keeping with repentance</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">; 9
and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our
father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up
children to Abraham. 10 And the axe is already laid at the root of the trees;
therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into
the fire. <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">11 “As for me, I baptize you with water for
repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit
to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12
His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing
floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the
chaff with unquenchable fire.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In
the same way, do not suppose you can say, “<i>I am a Christian</i>,” and think
your repentance and Salvation are true without good fruit. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">True
repentance bears good fruit. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That
fruit, your works, make your faith complete and your repentance true. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">We <i><u>must</u></i> DO if
we have true faith and true repentance</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
must be doers of the word <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
a man says he has repented but continues in sin, his fruit reveals him. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 7:16-20</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorn bushes or
figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad
tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree
bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire. 20 So then, you will know them by their fruits.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In
the matter of doing, repenting, and fruit, there sure are a lot of scriptures
about displeased masters, cutting down, casting into the fires, and darkness
with weeping and gnashing of teeth. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The Lord is serious about
those who truly serve Him</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Is
Jesus your Lord…if you are not His servant?</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Has
a man truly repented…if he continues to live in sin?</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
you bear bad fruit or no fruit at all…are you of the good tree? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">WORKS IN YOU AND FROM YOU</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">In you, your life, and home</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
must read, pray, study, meditate on His words, grow in the Lord <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
must have good fruit in our lives</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Show
we are truly repentant <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Be
doers of the word. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Have
works that make our faith complete! <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
it begins INSIDE of us. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He
gives us a new heart of flesh (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Ezekiel 36:25-27a</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Spirit of God renews our minds (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Romans 12:2</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
can have a mind like Christ (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Corinthians 2:16</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
makes us a NEW creation…if we allow the old to pass away! <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">New creation, new purpose</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Before
the Lord gave you His Holy Spirit, you had no purpose on Earth</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
are born, live, die, and spend eternity apart from the Creator. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some
may try to give their lives purpose because it is human nature to seek purpose. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In
hell, there will be many good people, philanthropists, doctors, people who
sacrificed themselves for others, people who died saving others, and all these
people will have one thing in common with the evil people in hell, they did not
have Jesus. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They
will also have one thing in common with all the saints standing in the glory of
the Kingdom of God. They had an opportunity to receive Jesus Christ as their
Lord and Savior but rejected Him, in word and deed, even if they knew not His
Holy Name. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But,
But what if they never heard the name of Jesus? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Romans 2:12-16</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All who have sinned outside the Law
will perish</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All who sin under the Law will be
judged by the Law <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Romans 2:14</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “For
when Gentiles <u>who do not have the Law</u> naturally do the things of the
Law, these, not having the Law, <u>are a law to themselves</u>, 15 in that they
demonstrate the work of the Law </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">written in their hearts</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
their </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">conscience</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">bearing</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">witness</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> and their thoughts
alternately accusing or else defending them, 16 on the day when, according to
my gospel, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">God will judge the secrets of
men through Christ Jesus</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
are all guilty. We will all be judged, whether in or out of the Law, and
whether in or out of Christ, the secrets of men’s hearts will be judged by
Jesus Christ. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Embrace the New Creation in
Christ Jesus that you are becoming!<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Read
the word of God, and read it OFTEN!</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Study
it, pray it, meditate over it.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Think
about it and apply it to your life.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Do
not resist the Holy Spirit’s work in you.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Allow
your heart and your mind to change.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Allow
God to make you anew.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God promises that if you are saved, you have the
Holy Spirit, where all the strength and might you will ever need comes from. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Spirit will give you everything you need to be a
successful servant to the Lord. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In being a doer of the word, your works will make
your faith COMPLETE! <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The fruit you produce in your life will show that
you are of a good tree in Christ Jesus and that you have truly repented. <br /></span></p>
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Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-60217159140120285722024-02-04T14:24:00.004-05:002024-02-04T14:24:54.661-05:00Serving the Lord Part 1: Introduction to Serving<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://the-truth-digest.blogspot.com/p/sermon-archive.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Previous messages by Rev. B. A. Shields found here</span></i></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
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Giving </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">|<i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i></span></b><a href="https://www.ps127.org/tithes-offerings"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Tithes & Offerings</span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Books by Rev. Shields </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><a href="https://www.bruceshields.us/my-books"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Author Website</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Serving
the Lord</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 1: Introduction to Serving</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">By Rev.
Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may hear the
full audio of the sermon by following the link to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament
#jesuslovesyou #churchfamily #godsword #loveoneanother #holy #godislove #church
#jesus #god #bible #christian #love #faith #worship #jesuschrist #gospel
#prayer #christ #christianity #pray #holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed
#armorofgod</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> to Serving</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. February 4<sup>th</sup>,
2024</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now
that we have examined what it means to be a saved follower of Jesus Christ,
having called on His name, He gives us the gift of forgiveness and Salvation.
We become followers of Christ or disciples, and the Lord begins his work in us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Philippians 1:6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who
began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
receive a down payment, a portion of the Holy Spirit, the promise of the Father
in heaven, which seals us and does the work in us. We begin as a </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Luke 5</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> disciple, with little understanding, and He builds
us up to the point where we Spiritually mature into a </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew 28</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> disciple, ready to fulfill the Great Commission.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Once
the Holy Spirit begins to work within us, we start to display the Fruits of the
Holy Spirit in our lives. <i>Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As we read the bible, attend church, and pray, we continue
to grow in the Lord and understanding. We realize that our battle is not
against blood and flesh but spiritual. And through the might and strength of
the Lord, we have the Full Armor of God to withstand the battle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
have the helm of Salvation to protect our minds from attack. Our thinking has
been transformed by the word of God and protected against manipulation. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
have the belt of His truth holding all of the armor together.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
breastplate of Christ’s righteousness, not our own, which protects our hearts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
shield of faith, not only blocking attacks from our enemy but extinguishing the
fiery arrows cast at us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
also have the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God, to defend
ourselves and cast down any word that tries to exalt itself again the word of
God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Finally,
the shoes of peace allow us to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others,
thus fulfilling the Great Commission.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And
though, if this was not enough, the Holy Spirit gives us spiritual gifts, which
we are to use to build up, strengthen, and edify the Body of Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now
that we have finished studying the Spiritual Gifts, it is time to learn how to
serve the Lord. This brings us to our new series, Serving the Lord.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Today,
I will touch on a few ways to serve the Lord, and over the next few weeks, we
will dig deeper into them and see where there is room for us to grow in our
lives.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
disciples of Jesus, we must strive to be doers of the word and not just those
who hear then deceive themselves.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
must also guard ourselves against vain imaginations, which we may use to create
a perception of reality that may not be true to the word of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Vain
imaginations are what got Satan cast out of heaven, Eve to eat the fruit, Adam
to follow, Cain to believe he could offer whatever he chose rather than what
the Lord demanded, and the list goes on and on.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
must ensure that we live in the reality of God’s word, not a distorted or
perverted creation of our own where we become the God of our realm.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Some
ignore the truth of the word, and instead of renewing their thinking to have a
different mind, a mind like Christ, they cherry-pick from scripture and build a
house around them upon the sands of their imaginations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then
the storm comes, and their perception is destroyed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>No,
we must build our lives upon the truth of God’s word and ensure that our lives,
relationships, households, church, and community are built upon the rock of Jesus
Christ. Then, regardless of the storm, we shall stand.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; tab-stops: 83.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Galatians 6:7-10</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever
a man sows, this he will also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh
will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will
from the Spirit reap eternal life. 9 And let us not lose heart in doing good,
for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary. 10 So then, while we have
opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of
the household of the faith.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s Topic: Serving the Lord: Introduction to
Serving</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">WHERE DOES SERVING BEGIN? IN
YOU</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The work has begun. Embrace
it</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
I first received Salvation, I was an annoying zealot for the Lord, with no
knowledge or experience but maximum effort.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
embraced my Salvation in Christ and knew I was a new creation and the old had
passed away. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Over
time, through prayer and study, as well as an experienced mentor, I learned how
to grow in knowledge, gain wisdom and understanding, and gain experience, which
can only be acquired in one way.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
cannot teach experience.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
can only be gained through the experience itself.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
that takes time.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
is why I believe all young people, especially those in good homes, should go on
a mission trip to a third-world country to experience how many needs there are
out there.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
must embrace and accept that we are no longer who we were, and that’s a good
thing.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
must not resist the workings of the Holy Spirit</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
we do, we fight God and His hand in our lives</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
prolong our conversion.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
needlessly suffer because of our own stubbornness.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
cause ourselves more grief than need be, all because the old man does not wish
to pass away.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Seek, then seek some more</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 7:7-12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Ask</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, and it will be given to
you; </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">seek</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
and you will find; </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">knock</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who
seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there
among you who, when his son <u>asks for a loaf</u>, will give him a stone? 10
Or if he <u>asks for a fish</u>, he will not give him a snake, will he? 11 If
you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much
more will your Father who is in <u>heaven give what is good to those who ask
Him</u>! <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">12 “Therefore, in all things, whatever you want
people to do for you, so do for them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
we wish to know, understand, or see truth, gain discernment in a situation, or have
a need, we must ask, seek, and knock. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Notice
the example Jesus gives here. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Did
the son ask for a mountain of gold, a mighty ship, or a kingdom to be his? He
asked for a <i>loaf</i> or a <i>fish</i>. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why
does this matter? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some
take this scripture out of its context, cherry-pick part of the verse, and say,
“Ask, and it will be given to you. Everyone who asks receives.” <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They forget the
example of a real need, a loaf or fish, and the rest of the verse,<i> “</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">If you then, being evil, know how to give </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">good gifts</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> to your children, how much more will your
Father who is in heaven </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">give what is good to those who ask Him</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">!”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God
is not a genie, and the bible is not His lamp to be rubbed and obey your
command.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We don’t always desire what is “good”
for us. Not every desire is a need, and not every perceived need should be met. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
what we ask is not for a benefit to us, someone we pray for, or the kingdom,
God will not…can not, give it. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">James 1:16-17</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Do not be deceived</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
my beloved brothers. 17 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Every good thing given and
every perfect gift is from above</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, coming down from the
Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
it is not a good thing or a perfect gift, it is not from God.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">James 1:12-15</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he
will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love
Him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does
not tempt anyone</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. 14 But each one is tempted when he is
carried away and enticed </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">by his own lust</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.
15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully
matured, it brings forth death.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So,
we seek knowledge, wisdom, and understanding of the Word of God to mature
spiritually. </span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
pray and ask for God to give us good things, perfect gifts, and anything that
will enable us to grow closer to Him and grow spiritually.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">As you grow in the Lord, the path
will become more clear</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
may not yet know what calling the Lord has placed on you.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But
know this, whatever the Lord asks of you, you are essential, you are needed,
and you are expected to serve. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Is
the Lord truly your Master if you are not His servant? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Is
someone your boss if you do not work for him? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As
we grow in the Lord, our calling will become more apparent. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
all have a different calling but are part of the one Body of Christ. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
all have a different calling but serve the same Lord to fulfill the will of
God, the Great Commission. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>viii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
are all essential in the working of the Body of Christ.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">WHAT IS THE NEXT STEP? YOUR
HOME</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Changing takes time,
patience, consistency, and wisdom.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Romans 5:1-5</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Therefore, having
been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">grace in which we stand</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">;
and we boast in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only this, but we also
boast in our </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">afflictions</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
knowing that affliction brings about </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">perseverance</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">; 4
and perseverance, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">proven character</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">;
and proven character, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">hope</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">; 5
and hope does not put to shame, because the love of God has been poured out
within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Change
takes time and is not always easy.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
we belong to the Lord, we first allow changes by the Holy Spirit in ourselves, which
pours out into our homes.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Worldly
things that were once ok are no longer acceptable.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Things
we once said or did that are approved by the world are recognized now by the
Spirit as wrong</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Changes
are never easy; they take time and perseverance, but they pay off with proven
character, which gives us hope.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
man's true character and integrity is not what he does when others are looking
but what he does when only he and God can see.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The man is the Spiritual
Head, whether he wants to be or not</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
is why the family structure is under attack by Satan</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Of
those who attend church, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">61%</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> are
women and </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">39%</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> are
men.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
would dare say many of those men only go because their wives made them.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
wish this weren’t true.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">After
over 20 years of working in various churches and speaking with many members, we
are not seeing the men step up as they ought.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Men
must make a stand and lead their families into the Kingdom of God. Whether they
accept this or not, they will be held accountable for what they taught the
family God has blessed them with. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Being right with the Lord so
we can help others</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Last
week, we mentioned that we are called to examine ourselves, judge ourselves, and
be honest. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
is how we grow in the Lord! <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
are no good to anyone else if we are not right with the Lord first. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
MUST get ourselves to a place where we are useful to the Kingdom. We are not
called by God, given Salvation by the Lord, filled with the Holy Spirit, to be
a pew warmer who remembers the Lord for an hour each week, then leaves the
service and pays Him no mind the remaining 167 hours, until the following
Sunday. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
must read, pray, study, meditate on His words, grow in the Lord, or drown in
the milk of elementary teaching. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Hebrews 5:9-14</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of
eternal Salvation, 10 being designated by God as a high priest according to the
order of Melchizedek. <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">11 Concerning him </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">we have much
to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.
12 For though by this time you ought to be </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">teachers</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the
oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For
everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of
righteousness, for he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who
because of practice have their senses trained to discern both good and evil.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Lord does not save us to sit on the
sidelines until we are called up to heaven. We have a job to do, to serve the
Lord, in our lives, in our homes, in our church, in our community.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">FROM THERE? OUTSIDE YOUR HOME</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Firstly, in the assembly</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As
a new believer, I thought you put God first, then the church, then family.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
was wrong.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
put God first, then your house (household, spouse, children), church, and
community.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
will be no good to my household if I don’t put God first</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Exodus 20:3; Colossians 3:17;
Matthew 22:37-40 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Your
house comes before the church. Scripture even states that before serving as an
Elder or Deacon, they must have their house in order.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Timothy 3:4-5; Titus 1:6-7 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">From
there, you can effectively serve the church assembly you attend</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
when the church is filled with people who put God first in their lives, homes,
and church, you will have a church filled with godly people!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
need godly people in the church today more than ever!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Secondly, in the community</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
we have a godly church, we reach out to the community and serve the Lord by
serving the community.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
reach out in many ways but with a singular goal.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Share
the gospel of Salvation that frees people from the bondage of their sin.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Lastly, whatever your calling</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">During
your time of spiritual growth, the Lord will make known to you your calling,
and it will be verified by other trusted believers who are serving the Lord.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Within the first year of my Salvation, the Lord revealed
that I would be an Elder in the Body of Christ, teaching His word to His
people. After a few years of intense study, the pastor of the church I was
attending approached me and said the Elders recognized a calling by God on me
to be an Elder and asked if I ever felt that call, to which I said yes. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It doesn’t always happen immediately, but if you
seek God’s Will, it will be revealed to you. We are not all called to preach or
teach, but we can serve the Body of Christ in a million ways. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What is important is we learn our calling and we do
it. Nothing is more satisfying in life than knowing what God wants you to do
and doing that very thing. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Over the next few weeks, we will look at how we can
serve the Lord through our faith, lives, homes, families, relationships,
church, and communities. <br /></span></p>
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Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-1603820792725556392024-01-29T06:37:00.003-05:002024-01-29T06:41:11.917-05:00Spiritual Gifts Part 4: Serving the Body of Christ<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://the-truth-digest.blogspot.com/p/sermon-archive.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Previous messages by Rev. B. A. Shields found here</span></i></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVmsq3NXN51BhDpgK04n8aka9CEpblL_PYZeGS4XStXIMUmscpZswSi9_tQGLaM54lBqX4YrWIAYnB-20BRN7fyBs4ChM93Q9N48myhfwfCvv_wAzEFig3veOpFqJi0rHdB8_TnT3T91n4UaBZAM0uKDX6ds12ybfHkqJk-MEOXmaD-XM1cqJVYdd60HNk/s800/Spiritual%20Gifts%20Serving%20Body%20of%20Christ.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Spiritual Gifts Serving the Body of Christ by Rev. Bruce A. Shields" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVmsq3NXN51BhDpgK04n8aka9CEpblL_PYZeGS4XStXIMUmscpZswSi9_tQGLaM54lBqX4YrWIAYnB-20BRN7fyBs4ChM93Q9N48myhfwfCvv_wAzEFig3veOpFqJi0rHdB8_TnT3T91n4UaBZAM0uKDX6ds12ybfHkqJk-MEOXmaD-XM1cqJVYdd60HNk/w400-h266/Spiritual%20Gifts%20Serving%20Body%20of%20Christ.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></i></b><p></p>
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Giving </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">|<i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i></span></b><a href="https://www.ps127.org/tithes-offerings"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Tithes & Offerings</span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Books by Rev. Shields </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><a href="https://www.bruceshields.us/my-books"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Author Website</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Spiritual
Gifts</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 4: Serving the Body of Christ</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">By Rev.
Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may hear the
full audio of the sermon by following the link to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament
#jesuslovesyou #churchfamily #godsword #loveoneanother #holy #godislove #church
#jesus #god #bible #christian #love #faith #worship #jesuschrist #gospel
#prayer #christ #christianity #pray #holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed
#armorofgod</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Perfected by the Holy Spirit</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Gifts in Scripture</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Serving the Body of Christ</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. January 28<sup>th</sup>,
2024</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now
that we have spent the last year examining what it is to be saved in Christ and
a follower of Christ, what scripture calls a disciple, and having received the
Holy Spirit, including the fruits of the spirit, or characteristics of God, which
is produced in our lives as long as we do not quench the Holy Spirit from work,
also receiving the Full Armor of God to enable us to fight the spiritual
battles, and wrapping up with the Spiritual Gifts for the building,
strengthening and lifting up of the Body of Christ, of which we are a part, we
can move on to explore how we may serve the Body of Christ as individuals.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Today’s
message will focus on our purpose within the Body of Christ because we have
one. The Lord did not die on the cross so we could have the assurance of heaven
and a blessed future and spend the rest of our days here on earth living
however we want.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Though
anyone may call themselves a Christian, the true follower reads His word, prays,
and lives as a doer of that word he believes. The Lord may call, <i>COME AS YOU
ARE</i>, but He does not intend for you to stay there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
each are essential within the Body of Christ and have a part to play. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">ILLUSTRATION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Here,
I have a circuit board. Its purpose is to make the LED flash. Someone may say
the power adapter or the main driver board is the most essential part. Or,
perhaps someone may say the LED itself is the most important because it is the
one that lights and flashes, fulfilling the purpose of the board. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
truth is, for this board to operate and fulfill its purpose, all the parts are
necessary. If I remove even the smallest wire, the purpose will no longer be
fulfilled.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; tab-stops: 83.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">1 Corinthians 12:14-23</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “So the body is not made up of just one part. It
has many parts.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">15 Suppose the foot says, “I am not a hand. So I
don’t belong to the body.” By saying this, it cannot stop being part of the
body. 16 And suppose the ear says, “I am not an eye. So I don’t belong to the
body.” By saying this, it cannot stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole
body were an eye, how could it hear? If the whole body were an ear, how could
it smell? 18 God has placed each part in the body just as he wanted it to be.
19 If all the parts were the same, how could there be a body? 20 As it is, there
are many parts. But there is only one body.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">21 The eye can’t say to the hand, “I don’t need
you!” The head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 In fact, it is
just the opposite. The parts of the body that seem to be weaker are the ones we
can’t do without. 23 The parts that we think are less important we treat with
special honor.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s Topic: Spiritual Gifts: Serving the Body of
Christ</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">THE SPIRITUAL GIFTS ARE FOR
BUILDING THE BODY OF CHRIST</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Do not forsake the assembly</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">First
and foremost, every part must be present.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Just
like the circuit board, all parts are essential and needed</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Hebrews 10:23-25</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who
promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how to stimulate one another to
love and good deeds, 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the
habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the day
drawing near.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
are commanded in scripture not to forsake the assembly of believers. Why? So we
may encourage one another. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
we assemble together, we keep from quenching the Holy Spirit in His work, not
just in others but ourselves. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">You have gifts for other's
benefit.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
share those Spiritual Gifts in assembly, at church, and out of church with
others in the Body of Christ. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
you forsake the assembly and do not go to church where the Body of Christ
gathers to praise, pray, and worship the Lord, you rob others of the gifts God
has given you for them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">They have gifts for your
benefit.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
are also robbing yourself of the gifts God has given others for your edifying,
strengthening, and building up!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">THE SPIRITUAL GIFTS ARE FOR
LIFTING AND STRENGTHENING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">There are many ways to
strengthen others</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Corinthians 12:4-7; 11</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are
varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. 6 And there are varieties of
workings, but the same God who works everything in everyone. 7 But to each one
is given the manifestation of the Spirit for what is profitable. 11 But one and
the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually
just as He wills.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
all have parts to play, and the Body of Christ needs us. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Lift others up</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
encourage each other, support each other, pray for each other, help each other
when we see a need, try to supply for each other, care for each other, and look
out for each other. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As
we spoke about last week, someone may have the Spiritual Gift of Faith and see
someone who is weak in faith, and they can be encouraged and lifted up. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Edify means to improve or
instruct morally or intellectually</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Bring them back when they stray and are in danger of perishing</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Matthew 18:12-14</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> “If any man has one hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does
he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one
that is straying? 13 And if it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you,
he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
14 In this way</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">, it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these
little ones perish</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">James 5:19-20 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“My
</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">brothers</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
if any among </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">you</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
strays from the truth and one turns him back, 20 let him know that he who turns
a </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">sinner</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
from the error of his way will </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">save his soul from death</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
and will cover a multitude of sins.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Warn them if they are in sin.<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 18:15</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Now
if your brother sins, go and show him his fault, between you and him alone; if
he listens to you, you have won your brother.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some may cry,<i> “you're not supposed
to judge!”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
cannot judge a person's life and whether they are bound for heaven or hell.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Proverbs 21:2</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Every man’s way is right in his own eyes, But Yahweh weighs the hearts.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Samuel 16:7 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Yahweh
said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature,
because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the
outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Psalm 44:21</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Would
not God find this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
cannot be that judge, only the Lord, because only the Lord knows the heart of
man. However, we are told to judge them by their fruits, and you cannot warn a
brother in sin if you are not judging that he is truly in sin.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So
we don’t judge their destination. Instead, if they call themselves a child of
God but live publicly in sin, we warn them. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Can
you imagine the Lord telling us to call people to repent but not being allowed
to tell them what they are to repent from? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“What
about Do not judge”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 7</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Another
“<i>cherry-picked</i>” verse out of context. Let’s read it in context. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 7:1-5</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <i>“Do not judge, </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">(MOST STOP HERE)</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> so that you will not be
judged.</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> (SOME STOP HERE)</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 2
For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with what measure you
measure, it will be measured to you. 3 And why do you look at the speck that is
in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or
how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and
behold, the log is in your own eye? <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">5 You hypocrite, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">first take
the log out of your own eye</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">then you will see clearly to take the speck out of
your brother’s eye</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 7</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">is
not telling us not to judge a brother in sin…rather, to get ourselves right
with the Lord </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">first</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> so
that we will </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">be able to help</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
our brother escape his snare of sin. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Context is important. Cherry-picking verses creates
false doctrine. Those who teach false doctrine are in danger with the Lord. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Colossians 2</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> warns about
teaching false doctrine and many other verses. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">THE SPIRITUAL GIFTS ARE TO
AID IN FULFILLING GOD’S WILL</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">What is God’s Will?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Timothy 2:3-4 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“This
is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">desires all men to be saved</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">2 Peter 3:9 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The Lord is not
slow about His promise, as some consider slowness, but is patient toward you, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">not willing for any to perish but for all to come to
repentance</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 10:13 (Joel 2:32) </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Whoever</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> calls on the name of the
Lord will be saved.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">John 3:16 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“For God so loved
the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
shall not perish, but have eternal life.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Acts 2:21 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“And it will be that
everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
many others… <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">How is this to be
accomplished?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">By being Doers of the word</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">James 2:14-17</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “What
use is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can
that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need
of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be
filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what
use is that? 17 Even so </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">faith, if it has no works, is
dead by itself.” <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">What does this mean for the
local church?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
must not forsake the assembly in this local church, in the community with other
believers, and in our regular lives, looking for opportunities to use God's
gifts to </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">build up</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">strengthen,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> and </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">edify</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
the Body of Christ.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How do we build up? <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Share the gospel with others.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Invite them to church</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Invite them to be baptized</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Encourage other believers <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How do we strengthen?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Use our gifts, which are for the Body of Christ</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Seek out the lost and those who stray</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Be there for others when they are hurt or are in need <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How do we edify?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Warn brothers who may be in sin</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Share the word of God with them</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Teach a Sunday school or Bible class</span></p>
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something. Being doers of the word keeps the Body of Christ in operation, and
we are all essential. <br /></span></p>
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Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-40054601315474483962024-01-22T07:07:00.003-05:002024-01-22T07:07:53.196-05:00Spiritual Gifts Part 3: Gifts in Scripture<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://the-truth-digest.blogspot.com/p/sermon-archive.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Previous messages by Rev. B. A. Shields found here</span></i></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
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Gifts</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 3: Gifts in Scripture</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">By Rev.
Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may hear the
full audio of the sermon by following the link to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament
#jesuslovesyou #churchfamily #godsword #loveoneanother #holy #godislove #church
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#prayer #christ #christianity #pray #holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed
#armorofgod</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Perfected by the Holy Spirit</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Gifts in Scripture</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. January 21<sup>st</sup>,
2024</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Last week,
we spoke about being made perfect by the Holy Spirit. A perfection that will
not fully take place, according to scripture, until we stand before the Lord
and are made complete.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Until
that day, however, we are commanded to continue running the race toward the
goal and to be mature as our Father in heaven is mature. Many scriptures
instruct us to be spiritually mature in reason, behavior, and attitude. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In my
latest book, Drowning in Milk, I state something I believe to be true with all
my heart. Nearly every single problem arises in churches due to one or more
parties being spiritually immature.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So we
are called to be spiritually mature and imitators of the Lord, and although we
are an unfinished work in Christ, who is continuously doing a work in us, we
strive for the goal line.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Lord knows the difficulty of doing this. He fully understands the trials and
tribulations we face in life. And Jesus promised that when He ascended to sit
at the Father's right hand, the helper would be sent to us and made available
to all those who belong to the Kingdom.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Over
the last year, we have discovered in the word of God how the Holy Spirit is
given to us upon Salvation in Christ Jesus, how the Holy Spirit produces
spiritual fruits in our lives, and gives us the Full Armor of God for living
victoriously in a world filled with spiritual warfare. Over the last couple of
weeks, we have just begun to scratch the surface of another great tool the Lord
has given us through the Holy Spirit, called Spiritual Gifts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Over
the next few weeks, I would like to look at some of the gifts in scripture and
discuss how they may be used to build and edify the Body of Christ, which IS
the church.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">What are the Spiritual Gifts for?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 4:12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “for the equipping of the saints for the work of
service, to the building up of </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">the
body of Christ</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Who is the Body of Christ?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">1 Corinthians 12:12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “For even as the body is one and yet has many
members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body,
so also is Christ.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">1 Corinthians 12:4-11
(Legacy Standard Bible)</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same
Spirit. 5 And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. 6 And there
are varieties of workings, but the same God who works everything in everyone. 7
But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for what is
profitable. 8 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to
another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; 9 to someone else
faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10
and to another the workings of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to
another the distinguishing of spirits, to someone else various kinds of
tongues, and to another the translation of tongues. 11 But one and the same
Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He
wills.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s Topic: Spiritual Gifts: Gifts in the Scriptures</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">MANY GIFTS – ONE SPIRIT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Many Gifts – One Spirit</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Firstly,
the gifts are not earned; they are given. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1
Corinthians 12:18</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “But now God has appointed the
members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some
of the gifts listed as found in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 12;
1 Peter 4</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Leadership</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Administration</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Teaching</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Knowledge</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Wisdom</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Prophecy</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Discernment</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Exhortation</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Faith</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Evangelism</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Missionaries</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Service/Helps</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mercy</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Giving</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">15.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hospitality <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">These
are just some of the Spiritual Gifts listed in scripture</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Though
many, all are by the one Holy Spirit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Varieties of Ministries –
Same Lord</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
also see five distinct ministries in scripture (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Acts 2:1-47</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Evangelism</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> (<i>Acts 2:1-41</i>)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Education</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> (<i>Acts 2:42a</i>)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Fellowship</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> (<i>Acts 2:42b</i>)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Worship</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> (<i>Acts 2:42c</i>)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Service</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> (<i>Acts 2:43-47</i>) <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
variety of ministries all for the same Lord, Jesus Christ <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Varieties of Workings – Same
God</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What
are the “workings of the church”?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Preaching
/ Teaching</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bible
School Teacher</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sunday
School Teacher</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Children
and Youth Leaders</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Administrators</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Secretaries</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Janitors
and Maintenance</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Outreach</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ushers
and Greeters</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Choir
Members</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Musicians</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Music
Directors</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Audio
and Video Technicians</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Web
Administrators</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">15.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Treasurers
and Accountants</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">16.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kitchen
Workers</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">17.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Nursery
Workers</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Every
member of a church should be serving in some way.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Every
servant of the Lord should remember that it’s more than just serving others;
it’s loving them: <i>“Serve one another humbly in love”</i> (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Galatians 5:13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Every
single one of us should be doing SOMETHING for this local body of believers…this
church. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There
is MUCH need, and many here who could help. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
all these working serve the same God<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">EACH ONE OF US IS GIVEN THE
MANIFESTATION OF THE SPIRIT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">How are we given the Spirit?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“For
also by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks,
whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.” ~ </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Corinthians 12:13 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
apostle Paul clearly taught that we receive the Holy Spirit the moment we
receive Jesus Christ as our Savior. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“However,
you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells
in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to
Him. 10 But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet
the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who
raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the
dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in
you.” ~ </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Romans 8:9-11</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Romans 8</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">tells
us that if a person does not possess the Holy Spirit, he or she does not belong
to Christ.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“In
Him, you also, after listening to the word of truth, the gospel of your
salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of
promise, 14 who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of
God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> ~ Ephesians 1:13-14</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Ephesians</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">teaches
us that the Holy Spirit is the seal of Salvation for all those who believe.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">What do we receive from the
Spirit?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Spiritual
Fruits – The Character Traits of God</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Full Armor of God – so that we may maneuver and operate within the Spirit realm
where a battle is raging against us.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Spiritual Gifts – for building (adding to), strengthening, and edifying the
Body of Christ (the “church” of believers.) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">What are the Spiritual Gifts
for?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Peter 4:10-11 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“As
each one has received a gift, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">employ it in serving one
another as good stewards</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> of the manifold grace of
God— 11 whoever speaks, as one speaking the oracles of God; whoever serves, as
one serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">God may be glorified through Jesus Christ</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
to whom belongs the glory and might forever and ever. Amen.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
ministries of the Holy Spirit are sometimes confused. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
receiving/indwelling of the Spirit occurs at the moment of Salvation. The
filling of the Spirit is an ongoing process in the Christian life. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Receiving/indwelling
is a pledge of our inheritance in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Ephesians</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
where the Fruits of the Spirit and Full Armor of God are from. This is your
seal. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
filling of the Spirit is the process of God’s Holy Spirit deciding the
distribution of the Gifts you will have for the needs of the body of believers
in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Corinthians 12</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.
These can change as the needs of the Body of Christ change in your
congregation.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE
SPIRITUAL GIFTS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Spiritual Gifts can be found
in lists and mentions in scripture</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Romans 12:6–8</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Corinthians 12:4-11</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Corinthians 12:28</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Corinthians 12:29-30</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Corinthians 13:1-3</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Corinthians 13:8</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Corinthians 14:6</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>viii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Corinthians 14:26</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ix.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Ephesians 4:11</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>x.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Peter 4:12</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>xi.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
is also possible the</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> 1 Corinthians 7:7 </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> 1 Peter 4:9 </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">may be referring to
spiritual gifts.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">There may be more Spiritual
Gifts that are not listed<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">However,
they would have to pass the Spiritual Gift Test!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 John 4 </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">tells us to measure things
and see if they are of God.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
know enough about the Spiritual Gifts that are listed to know whether something
we are endowed with is a Spiritual Gift.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Firstly,
is it a skill or talent you picked up without training?</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We read in Exodus how men were chosen
to build the Ark of the Covenant and the Temple; even though they never worked
with precious metals and wood before, God enabled them to have the skills
needed to complete His tasks.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Does
it build (add to the membership of the Body of Christ), strengthen, or edify
(the Body of Christ)?</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That is what the gifts are for</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That is what they do</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Does
it fill a need within the local Body of Christ?</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our card ministry, for example</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Bible does not list “card ministry”
as a Spiritual Gift. However, Marny has a talent for it, and it ministers to
the local Body of Christ, filling a need in our ministry.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I have heard from many about how they
were blessed to receive cards “from the church,” and I always make it known
that Marny oversees this.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So,
listen to the Spirit’s leading, fill the needs of the local congregation, and
serve with the gifts God gives you, and you will be serving the Body of Christ
and others.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The Spiritual Gifts equip us
to serve the Lord<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
are all “essential” within the Body of Christ</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
are all “equipped” to fulfill needs within the Body of Christ.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
must all “serve” in some way, being doers of the Word and fulfilling the Great
Commission we were given by Christ. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This county needs faithful believers serving the
Lord. This congregation needs you. The Body of Christ needs you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So we see from </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">1 Corinthians 12</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> that there are many gifts, but they all come from one spirit, the Holy
Spirit, and He distributes to each believer individually as He wills.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We also see that there are a variety of ministries,
but the same Lord, Jesus Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As well as various workings, but the same God, our
Father in heaven.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
we are brought into the Father’s Kingdom through Salvation in Christ Jesus, we
have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to serve our Lord. The Holy Spirit gives
us the ability to serve, and the many parts of us become one, the Body of
Christ, the church, to share the light of God in this dark world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew 28,</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Jesus does not say, give them all warm fuzzies,
make them feel good about themselves and others, make them happy shining
people. No. That is not the gospel of Jesus Christ.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jesus
said, go into all nations preaching the gospel, baptize and teach them to obey
all that I command.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What
is the gospel that we are to preach? How about what Jesus and the apostles
preached?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus preached, repent. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew 4:17</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Repent, for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The four gospels show us that Jesus preached on
numerous topics, but first and foremost, Jesus preached a message of
repentance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus told the apostles to preach repentance in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Luke 24:45-47</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Then He opened their minds to understand the
Scriptures, 46 and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would
suffer and rise again from the dead the third day, 47 and that </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">repentance for
forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It is commanded in<i> </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Acts 17:30-31</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Therefore having overlooked the times of
ignorance, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">God
is now commanding men that everyone everywhere should repent</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, 31 because He has fixed a day in which He will
judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He determined, having
furnished proof to all by raising Him from the dead.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It was Paul’s ministry from the beginning in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Acts 26:19-20</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“So, King
Agrippa, I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20 but kept
declaring both to those of Damascus first, and also at Jerusalem and then
throughout all the region of Judea, and even to the Gentiles, that </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">they should repent and
turn to God, practicing deeds appropriate to repentance.</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Don’t
just turn from your sins to God, continue living (practicing your deeds) in a
way that matches your words.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We must
do more than say we repent. It must be from our heart, mourn our sins against
God, detest our rebellion against Him. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">2 Corinthians 7:9-10</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful,
but that you were made sorrowful to repentance. For you were made to have godly
sorrow, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. 10 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">For godly sorrow
produces a repentance without regret, leading to Salvation</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, but the sorrow of the world brings about death.”</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The gospel we are to preach to all nations is repentance
FOR forgiveness of sins.</span></p>
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Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-56670675259654721872024-01-14T14:09:00.005-05:002024-01-14T14:09:44.394-05:00Spiritual Gifts Part 2: Perfected by the Holy Spirit<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://the-truth-digest.blogspot.com/p/sermon-archive.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Previous messages by Rev. B. A. Shields found here</span></i></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Spiritual
Gifts</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 2: Perfected by the Holy Spirit</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">By Rev.
Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may hear the
full audio of the sermon by following the link to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament
#jesuslovesyou #churchfamily #godsword #loveoneanother #holy #godislove #church
#jesus #god #bible #christian #love #faith #worship #jesuschrist #gospel
#prayer #christ #christianity #pray #holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed
#armorofgod</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Perfected by the Holy Spirit</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. January 14<sup>th</sup>,
2024</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Last week,
we began looking at the Spiritual Gifts. After examining what the scripture
states about conversion to discipleship, how we receive the Holy Spirit with
our Salvation, the Fruits of the Holy Spirit, and the Full Armor of God from
the Holy Spirit, we now examine the Spiritual Gifts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Last
week, we also discussed the importance of the Spiritual Gifts and how they are
used by the Holy Spirit, through us, explicitly to build, strengthen, and edify
the Body of Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">What are the Spiritual Gifts for?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 4:12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “for the equipping of the saints for the work of
service, to the building up of </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">the
body of Christ</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Who is the Body of Christ?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">1 Corinthians 12:12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “For even as the body is one and yet has many
members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body,
so also is Christ.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">How are the gifts distributed to
the Body of Christ?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Hebrews 10:24-25</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “And let us consider </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">how to stimulate one
another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one
another, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
mentioned before that a friend told me, “I don’t have to go to church to be a
Christian.” That is true. However, which Christian are you going to be?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
one who assembles with the Body of Christ, as we are instructed to in
scripture, to share the Spiritual Gifts the Holy Spirit has given to you to
build, strengthen, and edify the Body, also receiving the Spiritual Gifts the
Holy Spirit has given to others to build, strengthen and encourage you, or the
one who has forsaken the assembly, straying from the Body of Christ?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Which
will grow and Spiritually mature? The one who surrounds himself with other
believers filled with the Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts, or the one who
forsakes assembly? What happens to us and our faith if we are not maturing in
the Spirit?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Instead,
what happens to a tree which is not watered?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Remember
the fig tree in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew
21</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">? It had leaves but
no fruit. So Jesus cursed it, saying,<i> “No longer shall there ever be any
fruit from you.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
fig tree looked the part. It had all the leaves as it should, but there was no
fruit, even though it was in season. We, too, can “look the part” of a
Christian on the outward appearance, but if we have no fruit, we are still
cursed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
is more to Christianity than calling yourself a Christian. You must be a
follower of Christ and a “doer of the word, not just a hearer who deceives
himself” </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">James
1:22</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
hear the truth of the word, call on the name of Jesus, receive Salvation and
forgiveness of sins, and a portion or down payment of what is to come in the
form of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Holy Spirit then imparts to us the Fruits of the Spirit, the Full Armor of God,
and the Spiritual Gifts, all for use within the Kingdom to enable us to produce
fruits in His Name for the Body of Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
must not forsake the assembly, quench the Spirit of God, or keep the Spiritual
Gifts given to ourselves because we did not assemble with the Body of Christ.
Those gifts are given to accomplish God’s Will, produce fruit in our Spiritual
Walk, and get a return.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>“So
will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty,
Without accomplishing what pleases Me, And without succeeding in the matter for
which I sent it.” </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Isaiah
55:11</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew 25,</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> we read the parable Jesus tells of the servants
given money by their master. The one who took what he was given and buried it in
the ground was cursed by the master for not doing something profitable with it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Lord is serious about us being doers of the word, about using the Spiritual
Gifts for the Body of Christ, assembling together so that we may all grow. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Two
examples in the word, by Jesus Himself, tell us to use what He has given us, or
it will be taken away. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So we
receive the Holy Spirit and are perfected by it. But that in no way means we
are perfect.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Philippians 1:6
(Legacy Standard Bible)</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“For I am confident of this very thing, that He who
began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s Topic: Spiritual Gifts: Perfected by the Holy
Spirit</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">PERFECTED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Be Perfect </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Matthew 5:48</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Therefore you are
to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
tall order, considering we are not perfect and only God is. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But
this word, translated as “perfect” in English, would have been better
translated as “Mature.” <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
makes far more sense considering the context from which this verse is taken. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Matthew
5 is about personal relationships with others and how you are to treat them –
In a mature manner, being Spiritually Mature as your heavenly Father is mature. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In
other words, be an imitator of God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
verse has nothing to do with actual “perfection” and never making a mistake. We
are flawed creatures who need God and His Spirit, and the presence of Jesus in
our lives continually. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 85.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">What about <i>Philippians 1:6</i>?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“For
I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">perfect</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> it until the day of Christ
Jesus.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
word translated “<i>perfect</i>” literally means “shall be performing.” <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So
it would read, “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a
good work in you </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">shall be performing</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> it
until the day of Christ Jesus.” <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
are an unfinished work in Christ Jesus. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He
begins a work in us through the Holy Spirit when we are saved. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He
continues this work of “perfecting” us, or making us more “spiritually mature
as our Father in heaven is mature,” until the day of Christ Jesus. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Philippians 1:6</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> tells us that the
day of Christ marks the time when our </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">sanctification
will be complete</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">At
long last, we will enjoy </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">sinless perfection</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
and dwell in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">resurrected, immortal,
glorified bodies</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In
reference to this future we believers obtain through Salvation, John wrote; <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Beloved,
now we are children of God, and it has not been manifested as yet what we will
be. We know that when He is manifested, we will be like Him, because we will
see Him just as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies
himself, just as He is pure.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 John 3:2-3</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">We are a work in progress…if
we are doers of the word<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
are not “perfect” by modern English definition</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Having
all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics, as good
as it is possible to be. <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">absolute;
complete <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Make
(something) completely free from faults or defects or as close to such a
condition as possible. <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Perfect
in English Bibles is closer to an archaic definition<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">bring
to completion; </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a
process not yet completed.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">WE ARE NOT PERFECT, BUT GOD
IS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Only Yahweh is perfect.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Deuteronomy 32:4 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The
Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and
without injustice, Righteous and upright is He.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God
is perfect in knowledge</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> Job 37:16 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God’s
perfect law restores the soul</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> Psalm 19:7 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God’s
will is perfect, and we are told to <i>“be transformed by the renewing of our
mind,”</i> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Romans 12:2 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Isaiah
saw the Seraphim calling out in the temple in heaven before the throne of God,</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Holy, Holy, Holy, is
Yahweh of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> Isaiah 6:3 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Man is far from perfect, but
there is hope for Spiritual Maturity</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">James 1:25</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“But
one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of freedom, and abides by
it, not having become a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will
be blessed in what he does.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Job 15:14-16 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“What
is man, that he should be pure, Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be
righteous? 15 Behold, He puts no faith in His holy ones, And the heavens are
not pure in His sight; 16 How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, Man,
who drinks unrighteousness like water!”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Romans 3:23-24 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“all
have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified as a gift by
His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">We are called to be
“imitators of God” and perfect (to spiritually mature)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Be
mature as your heavenly Father is mature</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> Matthew
5:48 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Ephesians 5:1 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Therefore
be imitators of God, as beloved children…”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Peter 1:16</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> (quoting <i>Leviticus
19:2</i>) </span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">instructs us to be Spiritually Mature by fixing our
hope on Jesus Christ.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Therefore,
having girded your minds for action, being sober in spirit, fix your hope
completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
14 As obedient children, not being conformed to the former lusts which were
yours in your ignorance, 15 but like the Holy One who called you, be holy
yourselves also in all your conduct; 16 because it is written, “You shall be
holy, for I am holy.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Do you see the pattern in scripture? Be
Spiritually mature (through the Holy Spirit) so that the Spirit can do a work
in you until the Day of Christ when you stand before Him. Continuously maturing
and growing in the Lord. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Be perfect (mature), be holy (imitators
of God), prepare your minds for action (spiritual battle), and be obedient
children and doers of the word of God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 85.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">WE ARE SEEN AS A WORK BEING
PERFECTED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The first step to living a
perfect, holy life <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Accept Jesus as Savior <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Ephesians 1:13-14 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“In
Him, you also, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">after listening to the word
of truth</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, the gospel of your salvation—</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">having also believed</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is given as a
pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God’s own possession, to the
praise of His glory.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">We are now declared Righteous.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Romans 5:1-11</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Therefore, having been </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">justified by faith</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we
have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and
we boast in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only this, but we also </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">boast in our afflictions</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(we
are not perfect)<i>, knowing that affliction brings about perseverance</i> (striving
to be imitators of God and doers of the word);<i> 4 and perseverance, proven
character; and proven character, hope; 5 and hope does not put to shame,
because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy
Spirit who was given to us.</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">6 For while we were still weak, at the right time
Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man,
though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. 8 But God
demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall
be saved from the wrath of God through Him. 10 For if while we were enemies we
were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been
reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only this, but we also
boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received
the reconciliation.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“For
this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual
immorality; 4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in
sanctification and honor, 5 not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do
not know God”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;">What must we do to be perfect
and holy?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Receive
Christ as Savior through hearing and believing God's word.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Do
not stand in the way of the Holy Spirit maturing and growing us.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Be
obedient children to the word of God.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Strive
to change your thinking so that you may be transformed.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
will become a new creation.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
one day, you will stand before the Lord Jesus Christ and be made perfect in
spirit and body.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Being perfected by
the Holy Spirit relates to Spiritual Maturity. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">James 1:4; Philippians
3:12</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Perfection is a gift that humans receive through the
sacrifice of Jesus Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Hebrews 10:10-14</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Through God's grace in Jesus Christ, Christians are
perfected in weakness. They are conformed to His image.</span></p>
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Peter 2:19-25; 1 Peter 3:14; 1 Peter 4:12-19</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></i></b></p>
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Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-64898980805815409742024-01-07T14:17:00.001-05:002024-01-07T14:17:07.420-05:00Spiritual Gifts Part 1: Introduction<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://the-truth-digest.blogspot.com/p/sermon-archive.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Previous messages by Rev. B. A. Shields found here</span></i></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Spiritual
Gifts</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 1: Introduction</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">By Rev.
Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may
hear the full audio of the sermon by following the link to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for
this and other Full Sermon Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines,
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visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>
at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> <i><span style="mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament #jesuslovesyou #churchfamily #godsword
#loveoneanother #holy #godislove #church #jesus #god #bible #christian #love
#faith #worship #jesuschrist #gospel #prayer #christ #christianity #pray
#holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed #armorofgod</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. January 7<sup>th</sup>,
2024</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Last
February, we began a trek exploring the purpose of the church. We looked at
what it means to be saved, belong to the Lord, called a child of God. What does
it mean to be a disciple of Christ, and what are the differences between a new
Luke 5 disciple and a trained and seasoned Matthew 28 disciple?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>From
there, we looked at how we are called to serve as followers of Christ. We can
fulfill the instructions of Matthew 28 by Jesus in various ways. We are to
share the gospel with all the world, anyone who will listen, making disciples.
Baptizing them and teaching them to obey all Christ's commands.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
discussed discovering our purpose and calling and how God uses each of us as
individuals in a larger plan. We are all parts of the Body of Christ, working
together to fulfill His will, which is He <i>“desires all men to be saved and
to come to the full knowledge of the truth.” </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">1 Timothy 2:4</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God’s desire is that all are saved. It is our duty, as believers, as
followers of Christ Jesus, and as disciples, to go into all the world sharing
the gospel message so the Holy Spirit of God can convert the souls of those who
call on the name of the Lord.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
we call on the name of the Lord, Jesus promises we will be saved. He also
promises to give us a portion of our inheritance, a deposit of what is to come,
and that is the Holy Spirit. We are endowed with supernatural characteristics
and gifts when we receive the Holy Spirit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our
first series examined the Fruits of the Spirit, which is the character of God
produced in our lives by the Holy Spirit. As long as we do not quench the
Spirit of God, we will have these in our lives.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>“Love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and
self-control.”</i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
Galatians 5:22-23</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
next thing we receive from the Holy Spirit is the Full Armor of God, so that we
may <i>“…be strong in the Lord and in the might of His strength. 11 Put on the
full armor of God so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of
the devil.” </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians
6:10-11</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Full Armor of God gives us the protection and weapons needed to fight
the real fight, which is spiritual and not with flesh and blood.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let
us fast forward one year from where we began to today, where we pick up where
we left off, having special services for Christmas and the New Year, and start
with the first sermon of 2024 and the first sermon in our latest series on
Spiritual Gifts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 4:7-16
(Legacy Standard Bible)</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“But to
each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Therefore
it says, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“WHEN HE
ASCENDED ON HIGH, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">HE LED
CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And HE
GAVE GIFTS TO MEN.” </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Now
this expression, “He ascended,” what does it mean except that He also descended
into the lower parts of the earth? </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He who
descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He
might fill all things.) </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And He
Himself gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists,
and some as pastors and teachers, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">for the
equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body
of Christ, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">until we
all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the full knowledge of the Son of
God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the
fullness of Christ, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">so that
we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried
about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in
deceitful scheming, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">but
speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is
the head, that is Christ, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">from
whom the whole body, being joined and held together by what every joint
supplies, according to the properly measured working of each individual part,
causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s
Topic: Spiritual Gifts: Introduction</span></b></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">TODAY’S MESSAGE: Introduction to Spiritual Gifts</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">JESUS DID NOT GO TO HELL</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 4:8</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> quotes <i>Psalm
68:18</i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“WHEN
HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES, And HE GAVE GIFTS TO
MEN.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Paul
continued in the next verse with, <i>“(Now this expression, “He ascended,” what
does it mean except that He also descended into the lower parts of the earth?”</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
lower parts of the earth is Sheol, the place of departed spirits.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Apostles’ Creed is an expanded version of the Old Roman Creed used as early as
the second century.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Around 390 AD, the statement in the
fifth line of the creed was added, “descended into hell.”</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This was from a poor translation of
Greek, which erroneously translated words like Sheol, Tartarus, and Gehenna as
hell, thus causing confusion.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Apostles' Creed and the doctrine
being taught, even in some churches today, that Jesus went to hell is <i>false</i>.
He went to Paradise in Sheol. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">How can we be sure the lower parts of the earth are not hell?<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because
<i>Jesus</i> tells us about Sheol in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Luke 16</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
when speaking of the rich man and Lazarus.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When they died (before Jesus died on
the cross and rose again), the rich man and Lazarus found themselves in the
lower parts of the earth, in Sheol, the place of departed spirits.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On one side of a great chasm, torment,
where the wicked were held.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">From here, the rich man looked across
the tremendous impassible chasm to Paradise on the other side, referred to as
Abraham’s Bosom. </span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There, he saw Abraham (who was faithful
to the Lord) speaking with Lazarus.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So,
Jesus tells us that the lower depths of the earth is Sheol, with Torment on one
side of a tremendous impassible chasm with the wicked and Paradise on the other
with those who were faithful to God.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why
is there a Sheol?<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because, until the cross, there had to
be a holding place for the departed spirits.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">John 14:6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to
the Father but through Me.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
means everyone, wicked and faithful, had to go somewhere until Jesus made a way
through the cross.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Now there is a cross; through Jesus,
the faithful can go to heaven, and the wicked are still held in Torment within
Sheol until Judgment Day.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Where they can still see Paradise afar
off and unreachable.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I give
more detail and scripture in my book Heaven & Hell.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">How do we know Jesus went to Paradise and not Torment in the
depths of the earth?<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Luke 23:42-43</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“And he</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> (the thief on the cross next to Jesus)<i> was
saying, “Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom!” And He said to him,
“Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.”</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What
did Jesus do for three days in Paradise? Why did He go there?</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Isaiah 44:23</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Shout
for joy, O heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Make a loud shout, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">you lower parts of the earth</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">;
Break forth into a shout of joy, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it;
For Yahweh has redeemed Jacob And in Israel He shows forth His beautiful
glory.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Can
the lower parts of the earth “<i>shout for joy</i>” over what Yahweh has done?</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Not
the wicked in Torment, but assuredly the faithful in Paradise!</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Job 19:25-26 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“As
for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will rise up over the
dust of this world. “Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall
behold God,” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
did descend into the lower parts of the earth, to Sheol, in Paradise, to
fulfill God’s promise to His faithful servants who died before the cross, the
ONLY way to heaven.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And he led the captives free from
Sheol, where they had been awaiting the Lord to rescue them.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">David,
like Job, knew the Redeemer would come for him<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Psalm 16:9-10</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Therefore
my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will dwell securely. For
You will not forsake my soul to Sheol; You will not give Your Holy One over to
see corruption.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So, what does </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 4</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> have to do with
Spiritual Gifts? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“WHEN HE ASCENDED ON
HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">And HE GAVE
GIFTS TO MEN</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Luke
24:45-49</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Then he opened their minds so they could
understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them, “This is what is written: The
Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and repentance
for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations,
beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">I am going to send you what my Father has promised;
but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 264.25pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus died on Passover, rose three days
later on the Feast of First Fruits, and was with the disciples and over 500 witnesses
(</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Corinthians 15:6</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)
for 40 days (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Acts 1:3</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">). <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 264.25pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus tells the disciples to wait for the
promise of the Father (the Holy Spirit), which Jesus would send to <i>“clothe
them with power from on high.”</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 264.25pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the covering of the Holy Spirit of
God, the promise of the Father, and Jesus told them to wait for it to arrive.
When did it come? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 264.25pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On
the Feast of Pentecost.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 264.25pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are the Feasts of the Lord in the Old
Testament important? Yes. They are signposts to tell us where we are in the
plan of God. Four have been fulfilled, and three are yet to come. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 264.25pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">HE GIVES THESE GIFTS FOR A
PURPOSE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">And that purpose is not you</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Spiritual Gifts are not for self-edification (improvement, education)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Gifts are not for self-esteem (confidence, respect)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Gifts are not for personal gain (esteem, popularity, prosperity)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Gifts, gospel, and ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ is not about you</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
is about Jesus <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">The Gifts are to enable us to serve Him.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 4:12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of
the body of Christ,”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Equipping the saints for work of
service</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What
is “<i>work of service</i>?”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The building up of the Body of Christ</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Spiritual Gifts of the Holy Spirit are for equipping saints (believers,
followers of Christ Jesus) so we will be capable of works of service.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Spiritual Gifts are explicitly for building the Body of Christ.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Not to gain more parishioners</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Not to get more views on YouTube</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Not so you will gain followers on Twitch
or TikTok</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Not so you can sell books or charge for
big-ticket events</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For
the building up of the Body of Christ</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">What is the Body of Christ?<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
speaking about the Spiritual Gifts in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1
Corinthians 12</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, Paul tells us in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">verse 27</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Corinthians 12:27 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Now
you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Church (ekklesia in Greek) is the assembly of believers (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 16:5</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Paul speaks of the
believers being the church, not the houses they were meeting in).</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
we know that Christ is the head of that church. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Biblically
speaking, there is no Baptist church, Methodist church, etc.; there is only one
church, and that is the Body of Christ, of whom we are individual members, and
Christ is the head. What did Jesus say about our brothers and sisters? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Mark 3:33-35</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“And answering them, He said, “Who are My mother and My brothers?” And looking
about at those who were sitting around Him, He said, “Behold My mother and My
brothers! “For whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and
mother.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There
is no “church membership” or individual church building. Instead, the ONLY
membership is the Body of Christ. You either are part of it, or you are not. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">SPIRITUAL GIFTS FOR ALL THE SAINTS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">They are for all the saints, not just the apostles</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 4:12 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“for
the equipping of the <u>saints</u> for the work of service…” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Who
are saints? Is it just the apostles?</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Corinthians 1:2</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> The
church of God in Corinth, all those sanctified in Christ Jesus were called
saints.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Colossians 1:2</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
All the faithful brothers in Christ in Colossae were called saints.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 1:1</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
the faithful in Jesus Christ in Ephesus were called saints.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Colossians 1:12-14</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance
of the saints in light. Who rescued us from the authority of darkness, and transferred
us to the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption, the
forgiveness of sins.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All
believers who are faithful to our Lord Jesus Christ are saints according to
scripture.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So,
the Spiritual Gifts are for YOU, for the sole purpose of equipping you to build
up the Body of Christ or The Church.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">How do we build up the body of Christ, The Church?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
few ways, firstly, by NOT forsaking the assembly</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Hebrews 10:24-25</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“And let us consider how to encourage one another to love and good deeds, not
forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging
one another, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
cannot share your gifts with the Body of Christ if you do not assemble with the
Body of Christ.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Your
gifts also strengthen believer's faith, lift them up, empower them to serve the
Lord, heal them, and so much more. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But
you cannot give your gift if you do not assemble, and they cannot receive that
gift if they do not assemble.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Another
way is using your gifts to fulfill </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 28</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We spoke a lot about how there is one
will of God, that all are saved (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Timothy 2:4</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">),
but we each have a calling unique to us from God on how we fulfill His will.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Which is why scripture says He gives
some this, and some that <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God
knows what the Body of Christ needs at each gathering of believers, giving
gifts to those members so they can fulfill His will.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">The Body of Christ is the True Church of our Lord</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Body of Christ, the True Church with Christ Jesus as the head</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So, what have we learned so far about the Spiritual
Gifts?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because of the cross,
Jesus created the church (the Body of Christ), to which He is the head. When He
ascended to heaven to sit at the right hand of God the Father, the Holy Spirit
was poured out to the saints, allowing us Spiritual Fruit, the Full Armor of
God, and the Spiritual Gifts for service to Him.</span></p>
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week: </span></b></p>
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Spiritual Gifts Part 2: Perfected by the Holy Spirit</span></b></p>
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Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-27881129113178096222024-01-01T08:50:00.002-05:002024-01-01T08:50:14.790-05:00New Year's Eve Service: New Year, No Fear<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://the-truth-digest.blogspot.com/p/sermon-archive.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Previous messages by Rev. B. A. Shields found here</span></i></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
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Giving </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">|<i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i></span></b><a href="https://www.ps127.org/tithes-offerings"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Tithes & Offerings</span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Books by Rev. Shields </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><a href="https://www.bruceshields.us/my-books"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Author Website</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">New Year's
Eve Service</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">By Rev.
Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may
hear the full audio of the sermon by following the link <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
<i><span style="mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament
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#jesus #god #bible #christian #love #faith #worship #jesuschrist #gospel
#prayer #christ #christianity #pray #holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed
#armorofgod</span></i></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. December 31<sup>st</sup>,
2023</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Over
the past few years, our country has had a lot of turmoil. There have been ups
and downs in the financial sectors, the housing market, socially, politically,
and medically, and the adverse effects have been seen in our businesses, homes,
and churches.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
recent Pew Research report shows the decline in church attendance across the
board of American churches since COVID-19.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
of November 2022, only 40% of those polled participate in services in some way
(including in-person, on TV, or online). That means 6 out of 10 have nothing to
do with any church, in-person or otherwise.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now,
here is the interesting part.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">most significant</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> growth in church participation (from 4% to 16%) was
among those who <u>attended in person</u>! Those who only watched online or TV </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Dropped</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> in the same period, from 27% to 12%.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What
does this tell us?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Regarding
our faith and church (Body of Christ), in-church attendance is stronger than watching
on TV or online. Why? I believe it is because the Body of Christ is supposed to
be made up of many individuals, not a person sitting in their home watching
others.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Church
attendance is IMPORTANT. The numbers prove it. You are strengthened,
encouraged, lifted up, and made better by those who surround you with Spiritual
Gifts instead of watching or listening to others act out their faith in real
life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
understand some cannot make it to a church service, such as residents of
nursing homes. This is why the Iosco Ministerial Association hosts the
Chaplaincy program, which has brought weekly church service to four of our
county's nursing homes over the last 30 years. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
believe that at this very moment in time, we currently have one of the best
chaplains we have ever hosted, Lori Ulman. We get great reports of her
dedication, service, and work. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It
is great to know your calling in this life and even greater to have the
opportunity to do it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The new year may bring thoughts leading to
worry or fear, but I say, fear not.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Terrible times of
conflict around the world. Our insane and unpredictable weather. Concerns over
race issues, political use of people as pawns, social injustice, crime, drugs, people
not knowing whether they are male, female, a furry or lamp post. The list goes
on and on.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Over the years, I
have spoken with many Christians and non-Christians who have expressed their
fears and worries, which, in some cases, literally keep them up at night.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It is easy for me to
say, “Fear not,” but perhaps difficult for you to believe. Especially when we
are bombarded daily with negative news and manipulating stories, everything is
a tragedy, a terrible event. Nothing good is reported anymore. Everything is
created to invoke anger, hate, fear, worry, stress, or divisiveness to destroy
bonds of peace.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Let us not forget who
our true adversary is. He comes to kill, steal, destroy. The fact of the matter
is nothing has ever truly been good since </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Genesis 3</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because of the
constantly manipulating information being poured into us daily, we forget that
this world has been falling and failing since Genesis 3 and will continue to do
so until the Judgment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When people tell me
they are afraid to have children in these times, I remind them that terrible
times are throughout the history of mankind, and we are called to be lights in
it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What if the Hebrews
had no children during their time in the wilderness?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What if Christians
decided not to have children during the Reconquista? That war lasted 774 years.
Or, the Anglo-Irish wars, which lasted 762 years?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Many wars lasted 100s
of years. Those were terrible times, and many thought it was the end of the
world. However, it wasn’t.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Terrible times happen
in this life, and life is not an easy road to travel. Jesus said as much!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“These
things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you
have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">~ John 16:33</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Genesis 1:31 (Legacy
Standard Bible)</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s
Topic: The New Year</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">TODAY’S MESSAGE: The New Year</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">THEN IT STOPPED BEING VERY
GOOD</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Cursed is the ground because
of you</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Genesis 3:17-19</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“cursed is the ground because of you; in toil
you shall eat of it <u>all the days of your life</u>; thorns and thistles it
shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the
sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground,”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
see, because of the fall, the Earth is cursed. So, daily, we must face hard
work just to eat, and while we toil, we will struggle with the thorns and
thistles of this fallen world. We will work and sweat until the day we die, all
because of the curse brought about through sin.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
is the curse. Humankind has faced this since </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Genesis 3</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
and we will continue to face it until we die. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So
why do we think today is different from 1000 or 3000 years ago? </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
believe there are a few reasons. Firstly, because we didn’t live then, we live
now. Our present condition is all we truly know. Unless we study the past, we
cannot see there have always been troubles in this fallen world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Secondly,
we are constantly told things are worse. These false narratives confuse and
confound all to gain the end result of justifying, legalizing, and normalizing
even more sin into the world, our culture, and society. That’s been Satan’s
plan from the beginning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Imagine
a huge barn in the middle of the night. Clouds cover the moon, no stars can be
seen, and no light anywhere. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Now, imagine you light a single candle.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That candle may not be able to
illuminate the entire barn, but everywhere you step, a difference is made
because you carry that light. You are not lighting the barn. The candle is,
however, wherever there is darkness, you bring that light with you, making a
difference.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
says, in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 5:14-16</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; 15 nor
does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and
it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 Let your light shine before men
in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is
in heaven.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
is calling you to be the light in these dark times.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">The evil of this age is hard
at work</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The powers of this world are controlled by evil
forces, and they wish to control you through fear and lies. So, who are the
powers of the fallen world?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 6:10-12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “<u>be
strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. 11 Put on the whole armour
of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.</u> 12
For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the
rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present
darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Heavenly
places refer to the unseen spirit realm. But those of us who belong to the Lord
have the tools and power through Christ to navigate this fallen world's
nonsense. In turn, we have a peace that others cannot understand because they
are still blinded by the world's lies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Do not live by sight, but
believe what the word of God says</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Paul
tells us about the spirit realm and the real enemies of God in other dimensions
because he wants us to understand that what we see in this realm are the symptoms
of evil working in another realm.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Therefore,
we cannot go by sight, which is limited to this realm, but by seeing things in
the Spirit with the wisdom and understanding given to us by God.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">2 Corinthians 5:6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home
in the body we are absent from the Lord— 7 for we walk by faith, not by
sight—"</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 1:17-21 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“I
pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a
spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, 18 so that, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">with the eyes of your heart enlightened</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
you may know what is the </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">hope</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> to
which he has called you, what are the </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">riches of
his glorious inheritance</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> among the saints, 19 and
what is the </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">immeasurable greatness of his
power</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <u>for us who believe</u>, according to the working
of his great power. 20 God put this power to work in Christ when he raised him
from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far
above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that
is named, not only in this age but also in the age to come.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Walk
by faith. Look with the eyes of your enlightened heart. You WILL SEE the hope
He has called you to. The riches of His glorious inheritance and immeasurable
greatness of His power for us who believe.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">THOUGH THE WORLD CONTINUES TO
FALL APART AROUND US</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">We take refuge in the shadow
of the Almighty</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Read</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <i>Psalm 91</i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He
who abides in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the
Almighty. <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
will say to Yahweh, “My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust!” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
will not be afraid of terror by night, Or arrow that flies by day; Of pestilence
that moves in darkness, Or of destruction that devastates at noon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
thousand may fall at your side And ten thousand at your right hand, But it
shall not approach you. <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">There are many fears in the
world causing other issues</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Anxiety,
depression, instability of thought <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">People
are fearful of so much, mainly because they are manipulated into fear by the
powers of darkness. We can find ourselves fearing other people, evil, the
climate and weather, terrors in the night, war, anxiety, leaders of the world
and even our own country, lies, man, and even death itself.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There
is so much fear in the world today. We have an entire generation of young
people who are all neurotic, anxiety-filled, mentally unstable, and afraid of everything,
and it’s not their fault.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Many
have been rendered helpless and hopeless because of what they have been taught
in schools and what they see on the news and social media, but the worst factor
is what they have NOT been taught in their homes. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Think
about an average church. How many there are genuinely committed to the Word of
God? How many study God’s Word? How many live it daily?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Pew Research I quoted earlier states only 4 out of 10 attend church. What
percentage of that is truly faithful?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How
many are teaching their children the Word of God in their home?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For
example, a small percentage of children today are educated in God's Word. Which
is where our understanding comes from. Without the Word, we have no Sword of
the Spirit. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
is no wonder they cannot defend themselves against the evil day. They know
nothing of the Full Armor of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Fear, re-branded and
weaponized</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Fear
has been a weapon of Satan’s for many millennia</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
we do not educate our young about the reality of Spiritual Warfare, we are not
equipping them for this evil world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Satan’s
number one weapon against us is lies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Listen
to what Jesus says in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">John 8:43-47</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">John 8:43-47</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Why do you not
understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. “You are of
your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no
truth in him. <u>Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for
he is a liar and the father of lies.</u> “But because I speak the truth, you do
not believe Me. “Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do
you not believe Me? “He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason
you do not hear them, because you are not of God.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Therefore, do not believe the lies of
this world, which create fear, because every lie is born of the devil. <i>“He
who is of God hears the words of God;”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And we know our
faith comes by hearing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 John
4:15-18a</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God,
God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have come to know and have believed
the love which God has in us. God is love, and the one who abides in love
abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">By this,
love has been perfected with us</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, so that we may have
confidence in the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this
world. 18 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">There is no fear in love; but
perfect love casts out fear…</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">”</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">YAHWEH IS THE GOD OF CREATION
AND GOD OF HAPPY ENDINGS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">What does the bible say about
the world</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Though
we are in this world, those who belong to the Lord are not part of it.
Therefore, we belong to the kingdom and should not fear this world or what is
happens in it. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 John 2:15-17</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world,
the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust
of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not
from the Father, but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and
also its lusts, but the one who does the will of God abides forever.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">John 14:27</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Peace I leave with
you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not
let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Psalm 34:4-5 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“I
inquired of Yahweh, and He answered me, And delivered me from all that I dread.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Psalm 56:3-4</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “When I am afraid,
I will trust in You. In God, whose word I praise, In God I trust; I shall not
be afraid. What can mere man do to me?”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Lamentations 3:57</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not fear!”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">What the bible says about the
future</span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Revelation 21:1</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first
earth passed away…”</span></i></p>
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</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 24:35</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.”</span></i></p>
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</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 5:18</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “For truly I say to
you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall
pass from the Law until all is accomplished.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">2 Peter 3:10-13 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“But
the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away
with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth
and its works will be found out. 11 Since all these things are to be destroyed
in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the
heavens burning will be destroyed, and the elements will melt with intense
heat! 13 But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new
earth, in which righteousness dwells.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Why the bible says to us, we should
not fear</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Proverbs 30:5 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Every
word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Deuteronomy 31:6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or be in dread of them, for Yahweh
your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Psalm 23:4 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Even though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Psalm 46:1-3 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“God
is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. Therefore we will
not fear, though the Earth should change And though the mountains shake into
the heart of the sea; Though its waters roar and foam, Though the mountains
quake at its lofty pride. Selah.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 10:28 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“And
do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather
fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Hebrews 13:6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “so that we
confidently say, “THE LORD IS MY HELPER, I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT WILL MAN DO
TO ME?”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why is the world the way it is?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Genesis 3:17-19</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“cursed is
the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your
life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the
plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you
return to the ground,”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And we were told these times would come.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">2 Timothy 3:1-7</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “But know this, that in the last days difficult
times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful,
arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving,
irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, without gentleness,
without love for good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, but having denied
its power. Keep away from such men as these. For among them are those who enter
into households and take captive weak women weighed down with sins, being led
on by various desires, always learning and never able to come to the full
knowledge of the truth.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And we are told what to do about it as
well.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Psalm 27:1</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Yahweh is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I
fear? Yahweh is the strong defense of my life; Whom shall I dread?”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Therefore, go forth
in this new year without fear, for the Lord is with you, and He will strengthen
you, and He is your shelter and mighty fortress. Call on His name, and He will
answer.</span></p>
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Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-16580176021832699952023-12-29T05:07:00.000-05:002023-12-29T05:07:00.078-05:00Christmas Eve Service: 2023<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://the-truth-digest.blogspot.com/p/sermon-archive.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Previous messages by Rev. B. A. Shields found here</span></i></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
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Giving </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">|<i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i></span></b><a href="https://www.ps127.org/tithes-offerings"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Tithes & Offerings</span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Books by Rev. Shields </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">|</span></b><a href="https://www.bruceshields.us/my-books"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Author Website</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Christmas
Eve Service</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Christmas 2023</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">By Rev.
Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may
hear the full audio of the sermon by following the link <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
<i><span style="mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament
#jesuslovesyou #churchfamily #godsword #loveoneanother #holy #godislove #church
#jesus #god #bible #christian #love #faith #worship #jesuschrist #gospel
#prayer #christ #christianity #pray #holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed
#armorofgod</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. December 24<sup>th</sup>,
2023</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Today,
we will examine the birth of Christ in a different way and see how celebrating
is not pagan, nor should it be frowned upon by believers, but embraced, shared,
and used as an opportunity to share the reason Jesus came as a man so that He
may save because He is God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Luke 1:26-33 (Legacy
Standard Bible)</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in
Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph,
of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And coming in, he said to her, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with
you.” But she was very perplexed at this statement, and was pondering what kind
of greeting this was. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found
favor with God. “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and
you shall name Him Jesus.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the
Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, and He will reign over
the house of Jacob forever, and there will be no end of His kingdom.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s
Topic: Christmas</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">TODAY’S MESSAGE: Christmas</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">GABRIEL BRINGS MARY A MESSAGE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Who is Gabriel?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He
is an angel, which has various meanings</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">An
angel can be a heavenly being or a human who is a messenger of God</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
see the term used in scripture for both</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Though
some believe Gabriel to be an archangel, he was never called so in scripture.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Archangel
comes from the Greek, meaning “chief angel.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
attribute was only ever given to Michael in the scripture.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">So, is Gabriel a heavenly
being or a human messenger?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gabriel
first appears in the Old Testament in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Daniel 8:16</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> to
explain a vision to the prophet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Here
we read in the New Testament, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Luke 1</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
Gabriel is here to explain to Mary what will take place with her in the near
future.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
reveals to us in the Word that Gabriel is a heavenly being</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
also reveals his job is to explain spiritual and godly things to humans that
may be hard for us to understand.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In
both examples, we see God sending Gabriel to make sense of things that may be difficult
to understand by human standards.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
Gabriel describes himself to Zacharias (the father of John the Baptist) in Luke
1:19, he uses the word translated “stands,” the Greek word <i>paristánō</i>,
which means “to wait before a superior,” when he “stands” in the presence of
God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Luke 1:19</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “And the angel
answered and said to him, “I am Gabriel, who stands before God, and I was sent
to speak to you and to bring you this good news.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Again,
we see Gabriel appearing to explain complex things that would be hard to
understand, as well as future events.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">What else is known from
scripture about Gabriel?<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">According
to </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Daniel 9:21</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
Gabriel is described as looking like a man.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
is probably why Mary was confused at his greeting, without being terrified at
his presence.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Unlike
the Seraphim of </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Isaiah 6:1-3</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high
and lifted up, with the train of His robe filling the temple. Seraphim stood
above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he
covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called out to another and said,
“Holy, Holy, Holy, is Yahweh of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Or
Cherubim of </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ezekiel 1:5-11</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Though
Gabriel appears as a man, he is still intimidating and scares some people.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
Daniel meets Gabriel, he Is frightened and falls on his face</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
Gabriel greets Zacharias, his first words are, “Do not be afraid.”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mary’s
greeting, “Greetings favored one, the Lord is with you,” is followed by, “Do
not be afraid.”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gabriel
gives the prophecy concerning Jesus, “Messiah the Prince” to Daniel.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gabriel
also tells Zacharias that John the Baptist will be a forerunner before the
Lord.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And,
of course, he tells Mary her son will be called “the Son of the Most High.”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>viii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So
Gabriel is a heavenly messenger of the Lord who appears human. However, he can
be very intimidating and is sent to give understanding to humans about
spiritual and godly matters that confound us.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He
is a created being who serves God and is mentioned throughout scripture in the Old
and New Testaments.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">THE MESSAGE ABOUT JESUS<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">The greeting and the message
to Mary<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Greetings,
favored one! The Lord is with you.” But she was very perplexed at this
statement, and was pondering what kind of greeting this was. <b></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
would have been confused by this statement as well<b><i></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But
as if to answer an unspoken question about the greeting, the angel spoke again<b><i></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">“And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid,
Mary, for you have found favor with God. “And behold, you will conceive in your
womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
know the exchange between them, Mary’s proclamation of virtue and innocence, and
Gabriel's explanation. </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">The description of Jesus<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gabriel
states;</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He
will be great</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Called
the Son of the Most High (Yahweh)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lord
God will give Him the throne of His father, David</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Both Joseph and Mary were from the
house of David</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gabriel states Jesus is the Son of
Yahweh</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And now says Jesus’ father is David
(meaning the bloodline)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
is culturally so because Jesus would be born with Joseph as His earthly father.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Also, Mary, being of the line of David,
and Jesus being born a human, would have Davidic blood in His veins.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This would also be socially so because
when one is adopted, they take on the family name and line as if they were born
of the blood.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
statement by the angel Gabriel about Jesus tells us Jesus is fully God and
fully man. A challenging concept for our finite human minds to accept.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Maybe not for much longer, though, with
the discovery of quantum mathematics/physics and mechanics.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Human understanding is getting to a
point where they are beginning to grasp some of the more difficult concepts of
the universe.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In the quantum world, a switch can be
on and off simultaneously.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Therefore, though difficult to
understand, something can be fully this and entirely that simultaneously.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 202.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 202.5pt; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
is not God diminished, but fully God and fully man.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gabriel
continues, He will reign over the House of Jacob forever</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There
will be no end to His Kingdom</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
will this Kingdom begin? When Jesus was born.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
will it end? Never.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
can we enter it? After the cross, it is made available to all through the New
Covenant purchased through the precious Blood of Jesus.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Why do we celebrate the Birth
of Jesus?<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because
with His birth, He reclaimed the Hebrews by taking the throne of David and
reigning over the House of Jacob, and by His crucifixion, he made a way for all
to enter His Kingdom.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
crucifixion created the ability for the New Covenant, but this could not have
taken place if there had been no birth. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we celebrate the coming of Jesus to allow
us to reconcile with God the Father through this New Covenant.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">ISN’T CHRISTMAS PAGAN?<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Every Christmas and Passover
(Easter), it’s the same thing<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">First
of all, we know that the devil tries to counterfeit and steal everything for
his own.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why?
Because he cannot create. He can only steal, kill, and destroy.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Even
the word pagan was stolen and turned into a made-up religion by wicked people.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
word pagan is a Latin word meaning villager, rustic, civilian, or rural.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Old English used a word (heathen), meaning dweller on the heath. A heath is an
untilled land or wasteland.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So,
pagan and heathen refer to people who live in a village or out in the fields
away from modern or cultivated cities where they would have access to the
church or religion.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Paganism
claims to have its roots in the 19<sup>th</sup>-century British Order of Druids.
However, most pagans can only trace their heritage to the 1960s. Most have no
formal or uniform belief or worship.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Christmas,
or Mass on Christ’s Day, began in Rome around 336 AD (according to religious
documents and the Britannica) and became a major Christian festival around the
9<sup>th</sup> century.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So,
the short answer is, No…Christmas is not a pagan holiday.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
word holiday comes from Holy Day, and there are no Holy Days in a pagan
cult that began in the 1960s.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Aren’t the tree and other
symbols and practices from paganism?<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Again,
no. Most of these things were done in celebration for hundreds of years before
they were stolen for cult use.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In Paul’s
time, believers were afraid of false religions and idols and “accidentally”
sinning against Yahweh.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Paul
addresses their fear in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">I Corinthians 8</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Paul
says in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">verses 4-5,</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is
nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.” 5 For even if
there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are
many “gods” and many “lords”), 6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father,
from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord,
Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So-called gods, whether in heaven
(spiritual realm) or on earth, have no power greater than the TRUE GOD, from
whom ALL THINGS COME.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">No power is greater than the True God,
Yahweh, and no other has power over you that you do not first submit.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Everything
belongs to God because He is the creator</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Just
because something wicked uses something for their sinful behavior doesn’t in
itself make the thing evil.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Satanists
eat food…does that make you satanic if you eat food? No.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">We do what we do in
celebration of the Birth of the Savior!<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Remember
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 14</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some
thought you could ONLY eat vegetables or certain clean foods, even though God
says in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Acts 10</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> That
ALL food is now OK to eat. There are no longer “clean” and “unclean” foods.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God instilled food laws to teach the
Hebrews about the Gentiles and how God is the one who makes the unclean clean.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Also,
in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 14</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
some thought certain days were greater than others (like the Sabbath Day,
totally missing that Jesus said He is the Sabbath, and we find our rest in Him
– </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Mark 2:24-28</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">).</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So
what was Paul’s answer to those who thought some foods were forbidden or
certain days greater than others?<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 14:14</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “I know and am
convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is defiled in itself;”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In
other words, these things used to worship anything other than God is defiled
BECAUSE they are used to worship something other than Yahweh.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
eating or celebrating a certain day is FOR THE LORD, nothing is defiled about
it!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
you purchase meat from a market that sacrificed that animal to satan, the meat
itself is not defiled in any way, and you can eat it. The act committed was
defiled, and as scripture states about this matter in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 14:12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “So then each one
of us will give an account of himself to God.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So
if you eat only salad, and it's for the Lord, then you are OK, and no one
should give you a hard time because your heart is right, even though in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Acts 10,</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> God said all food is now
clean.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
if you want to celebrate a certain day (such as Christmas) for the birth of
Jesus, and it’s for the Lord, there is nothing wrong with that.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>viii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
celebrate the Birth of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, sent by God the Father to
reconcile sinful men to Himself through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and
Salvation in the work of Christ Jesus.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Christmas
is not the first time Satan has tried to steal what is for God. Satan has done
it with marriage, sex, religion, miracles, and the rainbow. In </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Revelation</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, we read he will even try to create his own version
of the Holy Trinity with the beast, false prophet, and antichrist. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Romans 14:16-18</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing
be slandered; 17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but
righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 For he who in this way
serves Christ is pleasing to God and approved by men.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Colossians 3:23-24</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the
Lord rather than for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the
reward of the inheritance. Serve the Lord Christ.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In conclusion, Merry Christmas!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">May you, your family, and loved ones be
blessed by the Birth, receive Salvation through the Crucifixion and
Resurrection, and celebrate the Holiness of God the Father, Jesus the Son, and
the Holy Spirit of God. Amen.</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Full Armor
of God</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 11 – Be on Alert!</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">By Rev.
Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may
hear the full audio of the sermon by following the link <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
<i><span style="mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament
#jesuslovesyou #churchfamily #godsword #loveoneanother #holy #godislove #church
#jesus #god #bible #christian #love #faith #worship #jesuschrist #gospel
#prayer #christ #christianity #pray #holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed
#armorofgod</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Strength of the Lord</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Put on the Armor</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Belt of Truth</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Breastplate of Righteousness</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Gospel of Peace</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Shield of Faith</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Helm of Salvation</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Sword of the Spirit</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Praying at all Times</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Be on Alert!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. December 17<sup>th</sup>,
2023</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Today,
we will look at </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians
6:18</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> and the instruction
to be on the alert with perseverance and petition for all the saints. This will
be the closing of our series on the Full Armor of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
speaking about our responsibility as followers of Christ, I first brought you a
series about service to the Lord, which revealed how we received the Holy
Spirit as a “down payment” of what is promised to us. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
completed the first of three series, looking at the things God endows us with
through the Holy Spirit dwelling within us, beginning with the Spiritual Fruit,
which is the character of God displayed through us for the benefit of others.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Over
the last few months, we have looked at the Full Armor of God, which equips us
for the spiritual battles we must face and the hidden things behind all faults,
failures, and evil in today's world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Though
we may see the manifestations in the physical realm, all of these things are
driven by the invisible, which is the root cause of the evil in the world, and
these battles must be fought in the Spirit realm.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Full Armor of God prepares us for this so that we can withstand the evil day
and perform what we are called to in service to the Lord, which is the Great
Commission of </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew
28</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
next series will look at the various Spiritual Gifts we receive, which are
specifically to equip us to serve the Body of Christ, building it up, making it
stronger so that it may, in turn, fulfill the will of God, which is the Gospel
message reaching the entire world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So,
let us look at our final message, Being on Alert.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
</span></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 6:10-18
(Legacy Standard Bible)</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10 “Finally, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">be</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> strong in the Lord and in the might of His
strength. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">11 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the full armor of God, <u>so that you will be able
to stand firm</u> against the schemes of the devil. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">12 For our struggle is not against flesh
and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world
forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the
heavenly places. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">13 <u>Therefore</u>, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">take up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the full armor of God, <u>so that you will be able
to resist</u> in the evil day, and having </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">done everything</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">to
stand firm</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">14 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Stand firm therefore</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having
girded</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your loins with
truth, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the Breastplate of righteousness, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">15 and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having shod</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of
peace.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">16 In addition to all, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having taken up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the shield of faith with which <u>you will be able
to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one, </u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">17 also </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">receive<i> the helmet of Salvation</i></span></u></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">and
the Sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">18 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">praying at all times</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with all prayer and petition in the Spirit, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and to this end, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">being on the alert</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with all perseverance and petition for all the
saints</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s
Topic: the Full Armor of God – Be on Alert!</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">TODAY’S MESSAGE: Being on Alert!</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">BE ON ALERT, YOU ARE AT WAR</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Be alert with all
perseverance and petition for all the saints</span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
are</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">not just praying for yourselves but all
believers</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">By
the way, <i>regardless</i> of what some may teach, according to the ultimate
authority, the Word of God, <u>ALL</u> believers are saints, not just those
appointed by a guy with a big hat.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Be alert with all <u>Perseverance</u></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> –
determination, resolve, endurance, purposefulness, diligence, and continuing to
do something despite difficulty or delay in achieving (<i>perceived</i>) success.
Not all results of prayer can be perceived by man.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">And <u>petition</u> for all the saints </span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">– make
or present a formal request to the authority of God concerning something.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Whether
you are pleading to God for yourself or another, your continued prayers,
knowing that He is the ultimate authority in all things, we ask earnestly, no
matter how long we must seek Him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“If
God knows everything, including our needs, why must we pray for the saints and
things we need?”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Besides
being told to in the Word and by Jesus, the discipline (being a disciple) of
the Lord calls for us to believe and trust in the authority and power of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
we pray</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We acknowledge His authority (Our
Father in heaven, Holy is your name)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We acknowledge we want His will (Until
your kingdom comes, your will on earth, just as in heaven)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We recognize Salvation comes by His
hand through Jesus Christ, the manna (bread) from heaven (Give us today, our </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">daily</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> bread)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We accept His wisdom through the Spirit
to guide our steps (lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">e.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He is the power, kingdom, and glory
forever, amen.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">f.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It also brings things He does not hear
before Him, such as prayers of the lost, those in sin, and those who have
allowed roadblocks to stand between themselves and God. <i>(</i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Proverbs 15:29</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Yahweh
is far from the wicked, But He hears the prayer of the righteous.”)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">g.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The only prayer from the lost the Lord
will answer is the one where they call on His name for Salvation<i> (</i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 10:13</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “For whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 166.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">h.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So we pray for the lost, that they may receive
the light, and call on the name of the Lord and be saved!</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
we pray, we go to the source of all good in our lives (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">James 1:17</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">), where we receive
comfort, strength, and all the resources we need to live and serve the living
God, both natural and spiritual.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So
we persevere with our prayer to God for all our needs, the needs of the saints,
and for the lost to receive Salvation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Sober-minded and awake</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Verse 18</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 6</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> tells us to be
alert.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There
are many things to be alert for in this world, and Scripture warns us of many.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Peter 5:8</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Be of sober Spirit,
be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion,
seeking someone to devour.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sober
of Spirit means <i>serious</i> or <i>mindful</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In
other words, pay attention to spiritual matters</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why?
Because our adversary (our enemy, our opposition), the devil, prowls around
like a lion seeking someone to devour. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 130.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 130.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Be ready for whatever comes,
battle or the Lord Himself</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Peter 1:13-16 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Therefore</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">, having girded your minds for action</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
being sober in Spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to
you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, not being </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">conformed to</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(obeying)<i>
the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who
called you, </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">be holy yourselves also in
all your conduct</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">; because it is written, “YOU SHALL BE
HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 24:42</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Therefore stay awake, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.”</span></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 25:1-13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> (Jesus tells us)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Then
the kingdom of heaven may be compared to ten virgins (Christians), who took
their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Now
five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“For
when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the prudent
took oil in flasks along with their lamps. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Now
while the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and began to sleep. “But
at midnight there was a shout, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Then
all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. “And the foolish said to the
prudent, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ “But the
prudent answered, saying, ‘No, there will not be enough for us and you too; go
instead to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.’ </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“And
while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those
who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“And
later the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open up for us.’ “But
he answered and said, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">‘Truly
I say to you, I do not know you.’ </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Therefore,
stay awake, for you do not know the day nor the hour.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christians (virgins), stay awake, for you
do not know when our bridegroom (Jesus) will return. Your lamp is your
Spiritual Life, the light you shine, and the oil is the Holy Spirit. DO NOT let
the Holy Spirit burn out of your life, for that seal is the ONLY pass into the
Kingdom. Yes, you can have it at one point, and if you let it run out, you will
NOT be allowed to enter the Kingdom.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">WHAT IS IT WE ARE LOOKING
FOR?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Spiritual issues behind the
symptoms in the world</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Spiritually
minded and aware of what is causing the world's troubles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Stumbling blocks, snares, and
traps in our walk</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Luke 21:36</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “But keep on the
alert at all times, praying earnestly that you may have strength to escape all
these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Peter 4:7</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “The end of all
things is at hand; therefore, be of sound thinking and sober spirit for the
purpose of prayer.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 John 3:7-8</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Little children,
let no one deceive you. The one who does righteousness is righteous, just as He
is righteous. The one who does sin is of the devil, because the devil sins from
the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose, to destroy the
works of the devil.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Opportunities to grow or help
another to grow</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Always
be mindful of opportunities to share the Gospel of Salvation with others.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Words
of encouragement, using your spiritual gifts to build and edify, strengthening
the Body of Christ.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Constantly
examine yourselves for fault so that you may grow spiritually mature.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">WHAT IS IT WE ARE TO DO IF WE
SEE SOMETHING?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Judge the situation and pray
for wisdom for the best response</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Mark 14:38</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Keep watching and
praying that you may not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the
flesh is weak.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Listen to the Word of God on
the matter</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Thessalonians 5:4-6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “But
you, brothers, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">are not in darkness</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
that the day would overtake you like a thief, for you are all sons of light and
sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; so then let us not sleep as
others do, but let us be awake and sober.”</span></i></p>
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</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Psalms 119:105</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Your
word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.”</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 58.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Be doers of the Word, no
matter the cost</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Mark 13:14</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “And brother will
betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up
against parents and have them put to death. “And you will be hated by all
because of My name, but the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">No
matter the cost, even when all around you turn against you because of he Word
of God, stand firm and resist the temptation of this evil day.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 12:1-2</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Therefore I exhort you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your
bodies as a sacrifice—living, holy, and pleasing to God, which is your
spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may approve what the will
of God is, that which is good and pleasing and perfect.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One
of the greatest dangers is </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">not</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> being <u>sober-minded</u> about our spiritual walk.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
</span></i></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Luke 12:35-48</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “GIRD UP YOUR LOINS, and keep your lamps lit. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“And be like men </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">who are waiting for
their master when he returns</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to
him when he comes and knocks.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Blessed are those</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> slaves whom the master will find </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">awake when he comes</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">; truly I say to you, that he will gird himself to serve, and have them
recline at the table, and will come up and wait on them. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Whether he comes in the second watch (</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">9pm – Midnight<i>), or even in the third (</i>Midnight
to 3am<i>), and finds them so, </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">blessed
are those</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> slaves. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“But be sure of this, that if the head of
the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have
allowed his house to be broken into. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“You too, be ready, for the Son of Man is
coming at an hour that you do not expect.” </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Now Peter said, “Lord, are You addressing
this parable to </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">us</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, or to </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">everyone</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> else as
well?” And the Lord said, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Who then is the </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">faithful and prudent
steward</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, whom his master
will put in charge of his servants, to </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">give them their rations at the proper time</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">? </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Truly I say to you that he will put him
in charge of all his possessions. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My
master will be a long time in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female
servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that slave will
come on a day when he does not expect and at an hour he does not know, and will
cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with the unbelievers. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“And that slave who knew his master’s will
and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many
beatings, but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a
beating, will receive but a few. From everyone who has been given much, much
will be required, and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the
more.”</span></i></p>
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Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-83825032387197517652023-12-17T06:39:00.004-05:002023-12-17T06:39:53.948-05:00Full Armor of God Part 10 – Praying at all Times Rev. Bruce A. Shields<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><a href="https://the-truth-digest.blogspot.com/p/sermon-archive.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">See all messages by Rev. B. A. Shields here</span></i></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></i></b></p>
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of God</span></b></p>
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A. Shields</span></i></p>
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hear the full audio of the sermon by following the link <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
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TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Strength of the Lord</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Put on the Armor</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Belt of Truth</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Breastplate of Righteousness</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Gospel of Peace</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Shield of Faith</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Helm of Salvation</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Sword of the Spirit</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Praying at all Times</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. December 10<sup>th</sup>,
2023</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
have had quite a long run over the last few months looking at our purpose as
followers of Christ. What it means to be a disciple, and how we can understand
God’s will, His calling on us, and how He has empowered us to fulfill His will
here on earth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Bible tells us that when Jesus first started His ministry, immediately after
being tempted in the wilderness by the devil, the following verses say;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“From that time Jesus began to preach and
say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew 4:17</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
once debated with a Christian from a particular denomination who was taught
through denominational theology that repentance is not necessary for Salvation.
Yet, it is the very first thing Jesus says at the beginning of His ministry to
bring Salvation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That
Salvation brought about by the crucifixion of Jesus and God raising Him from
the dead is now available to all who call on Him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“for “<u>WHOEVER</u> CALLS ON THE NAME OF
THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Romans
10:13</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
believe it is pretty straightforward and understandable from the many verses
found throughout scripture, as well as Jesus’ very own words and the
description of living and walking in the Spirit, found in Galatians and
Ephesians, that we are not only commanded to call on the name of Jesus for
Salvation, but to be imitators of God, as His beloved children (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 5:1-2</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">), which can only happen by the power of the Holy
Spirit, a renewing of our minds, and repentance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If
repentance was not a part of Salvation, Jesus would not tell us to repent. If
repentance is not necessary for walking in the Spirit, we could continue to
live in our sins, be OK with God, and still inherit the Kingdom.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Do you know that the unrighteous will not
inherit the Kingdom of God?” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">1
Corinthians 6:9</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked,
for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Galatians 6:7</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
we receive Salvation from Christ, we also receive the Holy Spirit, which endows
in us God’s characteristics, which we call the Fruit of the Spirit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
also receive the Full Armor of God so that we <i>“…will be able to stand firm
against the schemes of the devil.”</i> and <i>“… be able to resist in the evil
day, and having done everything, to stand firm.” </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 6:12-13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is how we are<i> “strong in the Lord
and in the might of His strength.” </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 6:10</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
the last couple of months, we have broken down the various parts of the Full
Armor of God and talked about what each piece represents, why Paul chose that
part, and how we can use them in our everyday lives to fight the spiritual
battles we all face.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Today, we will look at </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 6:18</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> <br /></span></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
</span></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 6:10-18
(Legacy Standard Bible)</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10 “Finally, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">be</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> strong in the Lord and in the might of His
strength. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">11 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the full armor of God, <u>so that you will be able
to stand firm</u> against the schemes of the devil. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">12 For our struggle is not against flesh
and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world
forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the
heavenly places. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">13 <u>Therefore</u>, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">take up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the full armor of God, <u>so that you will be able
to resist</u> in the evil day, and having </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">done everything</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">to
stand firm</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">14 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Stand firm therefore</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having
girded</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your loins with
truth, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the Breastplate of righteousness, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">15 and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having shod</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of
peace.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">16 In addition to all, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having taken up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the shield of faith with which <u>you will be able
to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one, </u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">17 also </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">receive<i> the helmet of Salvation</i></span></u></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">and
the Sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">18 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">praying at all times</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with all prayer and petition in the Spirit, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and to this end, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">being on the alert</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with all perseverance and petition for all the
saints</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s
Topic: the Full Armor of God – Praying at all Times</span></b></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">TODAY’S MESSAGE: Receive the Sword of the Spirit</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">PRAYING AT ALL TIMES</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Being prayerfully minded</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How
easy it is when we want/need something </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Quickly,
we turn to God when troubles arise <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Quickly,
we call out to Him for so many things that do not matter in this world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Vain
prayers that accomplish nothing</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God, please give/get/make/let, and I
will/promise/swear/try <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
know the Word promises we can pray for our needs. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
biggest problem is some do not know the difference between a want/desire and a need. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
must strive to be prayerfully minded</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For
others</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For
needs</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For
healing</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For
blessings</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For
the Gospel to reach the ears</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For
hearts to be softened</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pray
for everything that grows the Kingdom of God and brings Salvation to the lost. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">All times, various times,
various purposes</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"Be
alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion
looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because
you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the
same kind of sufferings." </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Peter 5:8-9</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">During
feast and famine, remember the Lord</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">During
good times and bad, remember the Lord</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">During
sickness and health, remember the Lord</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">During
plenty and want, remember the Lord</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In
all things at all times, pray to the Lord <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Be sure your prayers are not
hindered!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 John 5:14-15 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“And
this is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">according to His will</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, <u>He
hears us</u>. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that
we have the requests which we have asked from Him.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Did
you catch that?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ask
anything “according to His will, He hears us.” <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One
reason your prayers are not heard by God is that you ask for things outside His
will. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Mark 11:24-26</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Jesus said, <i>“For
this reason I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that
you have received them, and they will be granted to you. “And whenever you
stand praying, </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">forgive</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">if you have anything against anyone, so that your
Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions.</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
[“But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive
your transgressions.”]”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Believing</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">you have received what you prayed for</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">does not mean it will be granted if you pray for something
outside His will.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
Jesus says if you harbor unforgiveness, don’t even bother praying. Because you
must forgive others if you want to be forgiven. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If God
does not consider you forgiven, will God hear your prayers and answer them? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Speaking
of unforgiveness, other sins can hinder your prayers as well.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Psalm 66:17-18</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “<u>I
called out to Him with my mouth</u>, <u>And He was exalted with my tongue</u>.
If I see </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">wickedness in my heart</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">The Lord will not hear</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">;” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
can call out your prayers and exalt the Lord with your words all you want. If sin
is in your heart, He will NOT hear your prayer. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sin
will always separate us from God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Selfishness
is another reason God will not hear us, <i>“You ask and do not receive, because
you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. You
adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility
toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world sets himself
as an enemy of God.” </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">James 4:3-4</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God,
let me win the lottery.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God,
let me be rich.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God,
let me be famous/popular/a star.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What
is the TRUE motivation for your prayer? Is it for yourself or worldly things,
or is it truly God’s Will? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Another
prayer blocker is ignoring the word of God, or “knowing what is right and
choosing wrong.” <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Therefore,
to one who knows to do the right thing and does not do it, to him it is sin.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">James 4:17</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Even
if it is not a sin, but you think it is, and you do it, it becomes your sin
because you thought it was wrong and did it anyway. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
the biggest roadblock of all for men…Husbands, pay close attention</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“You
husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with
a weaker vessel, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of
the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Peter 3:7</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What
is the “weaker vessel?” It means her feelings can be hurt if you do not show
her understanding, honor (respect), and equality. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If you do not give your wife
understanding, honor, respect, or treat her as a subservient, lesser, rather
than an equal, God will NOT hear your prayers. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>viii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Therefore, confess your sins to one
another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective
prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">James 5:16</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">WITH ALL PRAYER AND PETITION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Types of prayer</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“praying
at all times with ALL prayers and petitions…” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Prayer
of worship (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Hebrews 13:15; Revelation
4:11</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Thanksgiving
(</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Psalm 100:4</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Faith
(</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">James 5:13-16</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Intercession
(</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Daniel 9:1-27</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Corporate
prayer (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Acts 12:5-18</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Consecration
(</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 26:26-27</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>viii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Prayer of the Holy Spirit (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 8:26-27</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Praying with purpose</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"The
thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have
life, and have it to the full." </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">John 10:10</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Be
specific with your prayers. Even keep a journal.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Petitions with purpose</span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"For
he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom
of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."
</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Colossians 1:13-14</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
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</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So,
let us pray for others to receive the same!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">AND TO THIS END</span></b></p>
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</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Original Greek</span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 6:18</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> in most Bibles
reads something like, <i>“praying at all times with all prayer and petition in
the Spirit, and to this end, being on the alert with all perseverance and
petition for all the saints,”</i> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Greek says, “<i>During every prayer and petition, praying in every season </i>(occasion)
<i>in spirit and into it</i> (prayers and petitions on every occasion), <i>being
vigilant in all perseverance and petition concerning all of the saints.</i>” <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Paraphrased
Greek would be, “On every occasion, pray in the spirit for all the saints,
being watchful and dedicated.” <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Prayers for others</span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pay
attention</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dedicate
yourself to prayer</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pray
on every occasion </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For
all the saints</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Prayers are powerful</span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The
weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they
have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every
pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take
captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">2 Corinthians 10:4-5</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why must we pray for others and situations? Doesn’t
God see and know everything? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">John 9:31</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“We know that God does not listen to sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and
does His will, He listens to him.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God allows us to take part in His kingdom. A pray of
petition is part of this. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The resources of God are released through obedience
and prayer. Through prayers of petition, God releases His power, the Spirit
moves upon hearts, and Divine orchestration takes place. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew 7:11</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who
ask Him!”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Prayers also demonstrate your close relationship
with the Lord! In </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">John
15:15</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Jesus said, <i>“No
longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is
doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My
Father I have made known to you.”</i> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus began His prayers to the Father with
thanksgiving (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matt
11:25, Luke 10:21, John 11:41</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One
of our greatest tools in the Full Armor arsenal is our ability to speak
directly with our commander-in-chief during times of battle. Yahweh makes
Himself available to us through prayer, and His power, might, strength,
defenses, and all of His resources are immeasurable and endless.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Whatever
our needs, especially concerning matters of Spiritual Warfare, the Lord will protect
us and provide. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">2 Thessalonians 3:1-3</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Finally, brothers, pray for us that the word of
the Lord will spread rapidly and be glorified, just as it did also with you;
and that we will be rescued from perverse and evil men, for not all have faith.
But the Lord is faithful, who will strengthen and guard you from the evil one.”</span></i></p>
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Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-88979348405688777952023-12-10T06:10:00.000-05:002023-12-10T06:10:06.401-05:00Full Armor of God Part 9 – The Sword of the Spirit Rev. Bruce A. Shields<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Full Armor
of God</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 9 – The Sword of the Spirit</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Rev. Bruce
A. Shields</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/full-armor-of-god-part-9-sword-of-the-spirit" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may
hear the full audio of the sermon by following the link <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
<i><span style="mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament
#jesuslovesyou #churchfamily #godsword #loveoneanother #holy #godislove #church
#jesus #god #bible #christian #love #faith #worship #jesuschrist #gospel
#prayer #christ #christianity #pray #holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed
#armorofgod</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Strength of the Lord</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Put on the Armor</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Belt of Truth</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Breastplate of Righteousness</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Gospel of Peace</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Shield of Faith</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Helm of Salvation</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Sword of the Spirit</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. December 3<sup>rd</sup>,
2023</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Today,
we are looking at the Sword of the Spirit in the Full Armor of God. After
examining what it means to be a follower of Christ Jesus, receive the Holy
Spirit and the Spiritual Fruit, which are produced as a fact of having the
Spirit of God, we began to look at other benefits of the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Full Armor of God is the subject of our
latest series, and today, we will be looking at one of the final parts of this
armor, the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 6:10-18
(Legacy Standard Bible)</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10 “Finally, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">be</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> strong in the Lord and in the might of His
strength. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">11 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the full armor of God, <u>so that you will be able
to stand firm</u> against the schemes of the devil. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">12 For our struggle is not against flesh
and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world
forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the
heavenly places. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">13 <u>Therefore</u>, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">take up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the full armor of God, <u>so that you will be able
to resist</u> in the evil day, and having </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">done everything</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">to
stand firm</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">14 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Stand firm therefore</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having
girded</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your loins with
truth, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the Breastplate of righteousness, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">15 and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having shod</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of
peace.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">16 In addition to all, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having taken up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the shield of faith with which <u>you will be able
to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one, </u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></span></u></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></span></u></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">17 also </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">receive<i> the helmet of Salvation</i></span></u></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">and
the Sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">18 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">praying at all times</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with all prayer and petition in the Spirit, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and to this end, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">being on the alert</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with all perseverance and petition for all the
saints</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s
Topic: the Full Armor of God – The Sword of the Spirit</span></b></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">TODAY’S MESSAGE: Receive the Sword of the Spirit</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT IS
SOMETHING WE RECEIVE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Many parts of the armor and
how we obtain them <br /></span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Firstly,
we are commanded in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 6:10</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“be strong in the Lord and in the might of His strength.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Then</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, <i>“Put on the full armor
of God.”</i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Verse 13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, <i>“<u>Take up</u> the
full armor </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">so you are able to</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
resist, and stand firm against the </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">evil day</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> (what
is the day that is evil? Every day in this fallen world)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Most
parts we are told to <u>take</u> or <u>put on.</u> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">However,
the Sword of the Spirit, just like the Helm of Salvation, we must “</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">receive.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">” <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">The Sword we must “<i>receive.</i>”</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because
the Sword represents the “Word of God,” we must receive it.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
cannot <i>“take”</i> the word. It must be given by God.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God gives us the word through the Bible</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Written
by those inspired by God’s Spirit</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Understood
by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Word of God can only be given to you by God.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 10:13-15</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">How</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> then will they call on Him
in whom they have not believed? </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">How</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">how</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> will they hear without a
preacher? 15 And </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">how</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How beautiful
are the feet of those who proclaim good news of good things!” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God sends His messengers to share the
Word of God to those who will listen. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As
Isaiah says, <i>“who has believed our report?”</i> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Though
you may physically “<i>hear</i>” the Word of God, this does not mean you have “<i>received</i>”
it! <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Or,
as it states in Isaiah, “believe.”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Therefore,
the Sword of the Spirit (Word of God) is something God “gives” to us that we
must receive to use.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">How do we receive the Sword
of the Spirit?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
receive it (the Word of God) by believing what it says and calling on the name
of the Lord.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
then receive forgiveness and Salvation through Christ Jesus</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Receive
the Holy Spirit and its benefits</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Fruit of the Spirit</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Full Armor of God</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Spiritual Fruit</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 10:17</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “So faith comes
from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">THE PURPOSE OF THE SWORD<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Why Paul chose the Sword to
represent the Word of God<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Without
a weapon, you are defenseless…a sitting duck awaiting attack</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God
does not wish His servants to be defenseless.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
perfect weapon for Spiritual warfare is a Spiritual weapon.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Word of God is this perfect Spiritual Weapon. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">What a sword is used for in
combat<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
sword is both for attacking and defense </span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Florentine sword fighting technique, developed in Florence, Italy, uses two
swords and no shield.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
smaller off-hand Sword is used for defensive maneuvers<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Sword of the Spirit (Word of God) is no different.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
can be used for defense as well as attack.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
see Jesus using it defensively against Satan’s attack in the wilderness.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Attack
with the Word of God? Say it isn’t so!</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">2 Corinthians 10:3-6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, 4 for
the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the
tearing down of strongholds, 5 as we tear down speculations and every lofty
thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to
the obedience of Christ, 6 and are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever
your obedience is fulfilled.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Strongholds are torn down through the
Word of God.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Speculations and vain imaginations that
try to rise up against the knowledge of God are taken into captivity and made
subject to the obedience of Christ.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Word of God attacks (causes offense, destroys, casts down, makes captive)
everything that tries to rise against Yahweh.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">How do you become more
proficient with a sword?<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
same way you do with anything</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Start
where you are, not where you think you should be<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Luke 5 </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> Matthew 28 </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">disciples</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Develop
a “growth” mindset and forget about limits.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Read,
study, put into practice (patience, patience, patience)</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Examine
your learning process and do what works<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Morning or evening reading?<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Afternoon study?<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Alone or group?</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Seek
advice from those who are proficient in the Word.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">HOW WE USE THE SWORD IN OUR
DAILY BATTLES<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">How can the Word of God
protect you in life<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Word of God directs and guides our steps<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Psalm 119:133</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Word of God illuminates our path<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Psalm 119:105</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Word of God makes us wise<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Psalm 119:130</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Word of God teaches us.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 4:4</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Luke 11:28</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Word of God helps us fight against sin<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">2 Timothy 3:16</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 112.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">How to use it in defense<i></i></span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As
Jesus did.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
you are attacked with false teachings, doctrine, or anything that comes against
you that is unholy or ungodly, speak the Word of God as your defense.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
Satan attacked Jesus in the wilderness and quoted scripture 100% accurately but
misapplied it because he did not have the Holy Spirit, which gives an understanding
of the Word of God, Jesus replied to each attack with ACCURATE and PROPER
scripture.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
you do not read or study the Word of God, you cannot use it properly. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">2 Timothy 3:16</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for
correction, for training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be
equipped, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">How to use it in attacks<i></i></span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Against
anything which exalts itself against the Word of God</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Casting
down all vain imaginations</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Against
false teachers</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Against
devils</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Against
anything in the way of God’s Word </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Sword of the Spirit is probably the most crucial part of the Full Armor of God.
Though all the parts rely on each other, the true foundation of all the parts,
their function, use, and everything that goes with that, is recorded in the
Word of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Hebrews 4:9-12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of
God. 10 For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his
works, as God did from His. 11 Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest,
lest anyone fall into the same example of disobedience. 12 For the word of God
is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far
as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to
judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Sword of the Spirit is the Word of
God. <br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Vs 12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “For the word of God is living and active and
sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul
and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and
intentions of the heart.”</span></i></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 8 – The Helm of Salvation</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Rev. Bruce
A. Shields</span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijs0GAtPuksMBisNyBxrnEThKxaBX-D50RLxx6G2AXmvygcwnUoj6uvtYZVX5U1jHh7-sRus50RgM7NF_u-y91JYYw0JLs9kFKryeQ1cCkNjSn4NXkxws9GrPvvqGgbU6e53yggW-dzUoTK3seL4NTxtJKhgo1ofwM-PEvoMd7GsWRlAHL1J1-4b_v37CU/s1280/maxresdefault.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Full Armor of God Part 8 - Helm of Salvation by Rev. Bruce A. Shields" border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijs0GAtPuksMBisNyBxrnEThKxaBX-D50RLxx6G2AXmvygcwnUoj6uvtYZVX5U1jHh7-sRus50RgM7NF_u-y91JYYw0JLs9kFKryeQ1cCkNjSn4NXkxws9GrPvvqGgbU6e53yggW-dzUoTK3seL4NTxtJKhgo1ofwM-PEvoMd7GsWRlAHL1J1-4b_v37CU/w400-h225/maxresdefault.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/full-armor-of-god-part-8-helm-of-salvation" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <br /></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may
hear the full audio of the sermon by following the link <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Strength of the Lord</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Put on the Armor</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Belt of Truth</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Breastplate of Righteousness</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Gospel of Peace</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Shield of Faith</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Helm of Salvation</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. November 26<sup>th</sup>,
2023</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
few months ago we looked at what we as followers of Christ are called to do. We
spoke of the difference between a new </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Luke 5</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> disciple and a
trained, seasoned, spiritually mature </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew 28</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
disciple. I speak more about spiritual maturity in my latest book, Drowning in
Milk. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It
is important for us to recognize where we are at on that scale of maturity, and
press on, so that we may be ever-growing, and serving the Lord.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For
us to be effective in our serving, we must understand the will of God. We
covered the three “wills” of God, which are 1) All are saved and call on the
name of Jesus, 2) You, as a disciple, share the gospel to everyone who will
listen, and 3) “How” you use your specific gifts God has endowed you with, some
naturally, others through the Holy Spirit, to accomplish His will in your life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>From
there we began to speak about your salvation, and how God gives you, as the
bible calls it, a “down payment” of the Holy Spirit as both a promise of your
coming future perfection in Glory, and as a provider, giving you fruits (or
characteristics) of God as evidence of salvation, the Full armor of God, to
protect you and equip you to serve during this spiritual battle on Earth, and
gifts, which are specific abilities so that you may build up, edify and
strengthen the Body of Christ while serving the Lord.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
have already covered the Fruits of the Spirit in great detail in our last
series. Recently we have been covering the Full Armor of God, and each piece
with its purpose.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
read in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians
5:1</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> that we are to be<i>
“imitators of God, as beloved children.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">KJV</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> says <i>“followers of God”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">NIV</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <i>“follow God’s example”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">YLT</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <i>“followers of God”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">However, the Greek used here is “</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="mso-ansi-language: EL;">μιμητής</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">” (mimētēs), which is literally “<i>imitator</i>”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So the </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">(LSB) Legacy Standard Bible</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
rendition is more accurate when it says in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians
5:1</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved
children, 2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up
for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Imitator is such a stronger word than
follow.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Follow, means to go after, move, or travel
behind. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Imitate, on the other hand, means to copy
in speech or mannerism. To simulate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We are called to be
“copies” of God, and </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians
5:1-6:9</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> tells us exactly
what that looks like. Why does it explain what it looks like? So we can be good
imitations, not cheap knock-offs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So
we ask ourselves in our walk, are we displaying what scripture teaches to be
good imitators, or are we bending truth and discipline to be accepted by
others?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Did
everyone love the truth Jesus shared in His walk? NO. In fact, there were times
they wanted to throw Him from a cliff because they were so angry, times Jesus
flipped tables and fashioned whips and whipped people, and they eventually
crucified Him for the Truth He shared.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
imitators, we will not be loved by all for imitating God. There will be times
people hate us for sharing the truth of scripture. There will be times they
want to throw us off a cliff, or crucify us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On
the other hand, if we are cheap knock-offs of God as opposed to imitators, the
world will love our truth bending, progressive all-inclusive misrepresentation
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">1 John 2:4-6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and
does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; 5 but
whoever keeps His word, truly in him the love of God has been perfected. By
this we know that we are in Him: 6 the one who says he abides in Him ought
himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">– Imitator of God</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">1 John 2:15-17</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Do not love the world nor the things in the world.
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all
that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the
boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. 17 And
the world is passing away, and also its lusts, but the one who does the will of
God abides forever.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">– Do not love the
world nor what is in it</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">John 15:18-19</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me
before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own;
but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because
of this the world hates you.” </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">– an imitator of God
will be hated by the world</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">James 4:4</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship
with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a
friend of the world sets himself as an enemy of God.” </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">– which is the life of
an imitator of God, friend of the world and enemy of God, or enemy to the world
and friend of God?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You cannot be both.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This
is one of the reasons we require the “Helm of Salvation”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 6:10-18
(Legacy Standard Bible)</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10 “Finally, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">be</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> strong in the Lord and in the might of His
strength. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">11 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the full armor of God, <u>so that you will be able
to stand firm</u> against the schemes of the devil. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">12 For our struggle is not against flesh
and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world
forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the
heavenly places. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">13 <u>Therefore</u>, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">take up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the full armor of God, <u>so that you will be able
to resist</u> in the evil day, and having </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">done everything</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">to
stand firm</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">14 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Stand firm therefore</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having
girded</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your loins with
truth, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the Breastplate of righteousness, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">15 and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having shod</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of
peace. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">16 In addition to all, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having taken up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the shield of faith with which <u>you will be able
to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one, </u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">17 also </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">receive<i> the helmet of Salvation</i></span></u></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">and
the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">18 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">praying at all times</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with all prayer and petition in the Spirit, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and to this end, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">being on the alert</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with all perseverance and petition for all the
saints</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s
Topic: the Full Armor of God – The Helm of Salvation</span></b></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">TODAY’S MESSAGE: Receive the Helm of Salvation</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">THE HELM IS SOMETHING WE
RECEIVE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Many parts of the armor and
how we obtain them</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Firstly
we are commanded in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 6:10</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“be strong in the Lord and in the might of His strength.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Then,
<i>“Put on the full armor of God”</i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Verse 13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, <i>“Take up the full
armor so you are able to resist, and stand firm against the </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">evil day</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
(this evil world)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Most
parts we are told to <u>take</u> or <u>put on</u> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">However,
the Helm we must “<i>receive</i>” <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">The Helm we must “receive”</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because
the Helm has to do with salvation, it is something we must receive.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
cannot <i>“take”</i> salvation, it must be given</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
cannot <i>“shod, put on, take up”</i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Salvation
can only be given to you by the Lord</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Therefore,
the Helm of Salvation is something we must receive to use</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">How do we receive the Helm of
Salvation?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
receive the Helm of Salvation with the Full Armor of God</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
have the Full Armor of God from the Holy Spirit</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
have the Holy Spirit as a “down payment” because of Salvation in Christ Jesus</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
receive Salvation when we call on the only name that saves, Jesus Christ</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When you call on the name of Jesus, and
He gives you Salvation, you receive a portion of the Holy Spirit and with it,
access to the Fruit of the Spirit, the Full Armor of God and Spiritual Gifts,
so you are equipped by God to serve Him. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Therefore, if you a are a saved
believer, you have access to the Full Armor of God and the Helm of Salvation.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">THE PURPOSE OF THE HELM</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">What is a helm?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Helm
is archaic for helmet</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Usually
a metal cylinder with cutouts for your eyes and sometimes holes to make
breathing easier.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In
Roman armor, the helm typically covered the top of the head, and usually had
side flaps as well for protection.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
wasn’t until medieval times when the helmet covered the entire head and face
with knights armor.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
medieval era began around 500 ad (the dark ages) which followed a great loss of
power throughout Europe by the Roman Empire. The middle ages spanned between
1400-1450 before becoming the Renaissance and the age of discovery.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">How it is used in battle</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Like
the breastplate which protected the heart and other vital organs, the helm
protected the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and brain.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How
you see</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How
you hear</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How
you smell</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How
you speak</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How
you think</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">These
are all very important functions in this world! Nearly all of the senses are
located near the brain.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">What are the pros and cons of
a helm?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
you protect something with a covering, you also “dull” its ability</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Wearing
a helm it’s</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">More
difficult to see</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">More
difficult to hear</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">More
difficult to speak</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Now
to examine why Paul uses this part of the armor to represent Salvation, and how
we use it to serve the Lord.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">HOW WE USE THIS HELM TO SERVE
THE LORD</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">What this means for us</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
the helm is Salvation, what does that mean for us? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
helm effects how you </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">see</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Measure what you see by the importance
of Salvation <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 7:15-20</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly
they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather
grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree
bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear
bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear
good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits
you will know them.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We see them through the Helm of
Salvation so we know of what tree they are from. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is our discernment because of
Salvation we see their fruits and know whether they walk in the spirit or
flesh.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
helm effects how you </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">hear</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Discerning what we hear through the
helm as well</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 John 4:6 “</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
are from God. The one who knows God hears us; the one who is not from God does
not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If you have the helm, you
hear and receive truth because you know God. If you reject truth, you are being
led by the spirit of error, and do not truly know God.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
helm effects how you </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">speak</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The helm of Salvation causes us to
speak truth <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 4:25-27</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his
neighbor, for we are members of one another. 26 Be angry, and yet do not sin;
do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and do not give the devil an
opportunity.” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We allow the helm of
Salvation to dictate the truth we speak</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Be angry? Yes, truth will
almost always anger others. If they allow that fleeting and momentary emotional
(our feelings) response of anger to fester, and they don’t let it go, they will
give the devil an opportunity to deceive.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
truth of God’s Word offends, angers, and causes trouble, but only to those who
do not receive the truth, and reject it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
helm effects how you </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">think</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our thinking was given to us by a
fallen sinful world which wishes to indoctrinate you into an all-inclusive
world view of accepting sinful behavior and lifestyles as normal and acceptable
behavior, even for those within the church. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus first sermon He preached, found
in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 4</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
had the central theme of “change the way you think.” <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Just after the temptation in the
wilderness, and just before choosing His first disciple, Simon, Jesus began His
ministry, saying in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 4:17</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of
heaven is at hand.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Repent? From what? The sin you commit
that the world tells you is O.K. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What took place just before this? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Satan attacked (spiritual warfare) Jesus in the
wilderness, misusing scripture to try and deceive Jesus, and cause Him to sin. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But Jesus, just as we should, not only knew the
scriptures, but understood them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">2 Timothy 2:14-19</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Remind them of these things, solemnly charging them in the presence of God not
to dispute about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers.
15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not
need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. 16 But avoid godless
and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness, 17 and their word
will spread like cancer. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who have
gone astray from the truth saying that the resurrection has already taken
place, and they upset the faith of some. 19 Nevertheless, the firm foundation
of God stands, having this seal, “Yahweh knows those who are His,” and,
“Everyone who names the name of Yahweh is to depart from wickedness.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You cannot love this world, the sin in it, live in
sin, and belong to God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God calls us to “depart from wickedness,” and “hate
this world.” <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But, but, God is love…He doesn’t hate
anything…WRONG. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God hates</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Arrogant, superior, egotistical, conceited eyes (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Proverbs 6:16-19</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lying tongues</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hands that shed innocent blood</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hearts that devise wicked plans</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Feet that run to evil</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The deeds of the Nicolations who taught sin was O.K.
(</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Revelation 2:6</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">False idols (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Deuteronomy
16:22</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Acting unjustly (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Deuteronomy
25:16</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You notice that the things God hates are sins. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You cannot live in the things God hates and expect
to be in communion with God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is why sin separates us from God, because He
hates it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Jude 5-7</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Now I want to remind you, though you know all things, that Jesus, having once
saved a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did
not believe. 6 And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned
their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the
judgment of the great day, 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around
them, having indulged in the same way as these in gross sexual immorality and
having gone after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the
punishment of eternal fire.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Protection against specific
attacks</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How
do these people fall into sinful acts and beliefs?</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Through
deception, through indoctrination, through the teaching of the world
consistently telling everyone that sin is OK</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
fallen sinful word teaching sinful things are not sinful</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They
can’t help it, they were born that way</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pedophiles say this</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Serial killers as well</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Does this excuse their acts against
humanity?</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Does this justify their acts to God?</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They
cry love is love</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">While not understanding the difference
between sexual desire and what love truly is</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">I Corinthians 13 <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Perversion, immorality, fornication,
adultery</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">None of these have anything to do with
love</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">e.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But said long enough, loud enough, to a
young enough child who is not taught proper by their parents, it will be
believed</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
helm of salvation protects our minds form the falsehoods we hear, the things we
see, and in the way we think.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
helm of Salvation through the work of God’s Holy Spirit, conforms our minds to
think like Christ Jesus, and reject Satan’s lies and deception that surround us
in this fallen and sinful world.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">TV</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Radio</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Magazines</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ads</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On
the shelves in stores</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
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our schools and universities</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></b></p>
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in some of our churches</span></p>
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</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sometimes in the tears of the
congregation</span></p>
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</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sometimes from the pulpit itself</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Our minds are the root of our
being</span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Proverbs 23:7</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “For
as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
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falsehoods of this age. <br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
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are called by the Lord to change our thinking, think as He does so that we may
be imitators of God!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 12:1-2</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Therefore
I exhort you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a
sacrifice—living, holy, and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of
worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
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which is good and pleasing and complete.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
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<p> </p>Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-1918196755615549142023-11-26T06:13:00.006-05:002023-11-26T06:13:57.244-05:00Full Armor of God Part 7 – The Shield of Faith Rev. Bruce A. Shields<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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of God</span></b></p>
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A. Shields</span></i></p>
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full audio of the sermon by following the link <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">
</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament
#jesuslovesyou #churchfamily #godsword #loveoneanother #holy #godislove #church
#jesus #god #bible #christian #love #faith #worship #jesuschrist #gospel
#prayer #christ #christianity #pray #holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed
#armorofgod</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Strength of the Lord</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Put on the Armor</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Belt of Truth</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Breastplate of
Righteousness</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Gospel of Peace</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Shield of Faith</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. November 19<sup>th</sup>,
2023</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We began
looking at the responsibilities of a follower of Christ a few months ago, discussing
what we should be doing in this life. Too often, we see those who claim to
belong to the Lord but live like they do not know Him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
spoke about the differences between a new believer and a seasoned one and how
what is expected of you changes as you grow in the Lord. It is as it would be
with our children in many respects.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If
your seven-year-old learns to ride a bike without training wheels, you are
excited about their accomplishment. However, if they never learned out of sheer
laziness, though given many opportunities, and thirty years later learn, you
may be happy they finally did it. Still, your excitement over the
accomplishment would be significantly diminished, if it exists at all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>God's
expectations change as we grow in the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord
as well. Like a father watching over us, the Lord desires us to search His
word, discover His Will and desire, and fulfill them in due time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jesus
showed this to us in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Luke
5</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> by choosing Simon
Peter as the first disciple and giving him simple tasks he was already
proficient at to aid Jesus in sharing the message with others.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Over
the years, as the disciple grew, Jesus tasked Peter with other assignments
until Peter had matured into an "adult" disciple, ready to take on
the challenges of </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Matthew
28</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> and the great
commission.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
cover this in my latest book, </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drowning-Milk-Guide-Spiritual-Maturity/dp/B0BPGC7BGB/"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Drowning in Milk: A Guide to Spiritual Maturity</span></a><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So we
covered the church's mission, sharing the Gospel, and then began looking at how
the Lord empowers us to fulfill His call on our lives by giving us the Holy
Spirit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It is
through the Holy Spirit that we are endowed with the Fruits of the Spirit.
Attributes of God are presented by the Holy Spirit through us in our lives to
draw others to God through our ministry.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After
examining the Fruits, we began the series we are looking at now, seeing how the
Holy Spirit empowers us to face the spiritual battles we must overcome to
fulfill our calling.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">By doing everything in the Strength of the Lord and
putting on the Full Armor of God, we can accomplish all the Lord sends us out
to do in His name.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
</span></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">SCRIPTURE READING<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 6:10-18
(Legacy Standard Bible)</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10 "Finally, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">be</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> strong in the Lord and in the might of His strength. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">11 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Put
on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the full armor of
God, <u>so that you will be able to stand firm</u> against the schemes of the
devil. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world forces of
this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly
places. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">13 <u>Therefore</u>, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">take up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the full armor of God, <u>so that you will be able
to resist</u> in the evil day, and having </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">done everything</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">to
stand firm</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">14 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Stand
firm therefore</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having girded</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your loins with truth, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having
put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the Breastplate of
righteousness, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">15 and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having shod</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of
peace. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">16 In addition to all, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having taken up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the shield of faith with which <u>you will be able
to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one, </u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">17 also </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">receive<i> the helmet of Salvation</i></span></u></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">and
the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">18 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">praying
at all times</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with
all prayer and petition in the Spirit, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and to this end, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">being on the alert</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with all perseverance and petition for all the
saints</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today's
Topic: the Full Armor of God – The Shield of Faith</span></b></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">TODAY'S MESSAGE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">FAITH IS NEITHER A FEELING
NOR UNWARRANTEDLY BLIND</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">We do not live by sight. However,
our faith is not "blind."</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">2 Corinthians 5:1-8 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"For
we know that if </span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[LIT: earthly house]<i>the earthly tent which is our
house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens. 2 For indeed in this we groan, longing to be clothed
with our dwelling from heaven, 3 inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be
found naked. 4 For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened,
because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is
mortal will be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who prepared us for this very
purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a </i>[LIT: down payment]<i>pledge.
6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at
home in the body we are absent from the Lord— 7 for we walk by faith, not by </i>[LIT:
appearance]<i>sight— 8 we are of good courage and prefer rather to be absent
from the body and to be at home with the Lord."</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"We
walk by faith, not by sight."</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
is where the term <i>"blind faith"</i> comes from. However, blind
faith is NOT taught in the word of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 22:36-40</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> "Teacher,
which is the great commandment in the Law?" 37 And He said to him, "
'You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your mind.' 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And the
second is like it, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 On these two
commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets."</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus
was citing </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Deuteronomy 6:5</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What
did Jesus say was the great and first command?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Loving
God with ALL YOUR MIND</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Christians
are supposed to engage their minds as part of loving God. Jesus is saying, do
not "turn off your brain."</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Acts 17:1-4</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, we're told that
the apostle Paul would regularly visit the Jewish synagogues in the towns he
passed through during his missionary journeys. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why?
Because he <i>"went in, as was his custom,"</i> and <i>"reasoned
with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for
the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, 'This Jesus, whom I
proclaim to you, is the Christ'”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Faith in the unseen, but
believed because of reason.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Reasonable
faith is faith in things because of the truth and reasoning of the word of God.
Our faith increases as we study and learn more about God’s word because this is
where our reason comes from.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 10:17</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “So faith comes
from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
more God’s word we hear (or read and study), the more our thinking changes to
be more <i>“Christ-like,”</i> as we are commanded in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 5</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, to be imitators of
God as beloved children.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Which,
in turn, unlocks </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 6</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
the Full armor of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
are commanded in the Word to think like Jesus</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Corinthians 2:5-12</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Which
is given to us through the Spirit of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">God’s faithfulness is what
allows us to have faith in the unseen</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Not
only do we have the word to grow us in faith and change our minds to be more
Christ-like, but we also have the faithfulness of God!</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
someone tells you they will pick you up at 5 PM, then never show up, and the
next day say the same thing, but never show up, how many times does this have
to happen before you stop having faith in their word?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In
the same way, God’s faithfulness and His doing what He says He will do, again
and again, proves He is trustworthy and that faith in Him is well-placed and
reliable!</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 1:17</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “For in it the
righteousness of God is revealed by faith to faith; as it is written, “But the
righteous will live by faith.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God
is faithful and, therefore, trustworthy, and you can place your faith in Him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">THE SHIELD OF FAITH OFFERS
PROTECTION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">“Take up the shield of faith.”</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Like
other verses we have examined in Ephesians, we have a duty or a charge and
instruction to “obtain.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Take
up the Shield of Faith”</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why
a command to take up?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As
we discussed earlier, Faith comes by hearing, reading, and studying the word of
God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To
have faith (as a shield of protection), you must have faith.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To
have faith, you must actively obtain the word of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That
is YOUR responsibility!</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
MUST be a DOER of the word!</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Choose
to listen, read, and study so that you may obtain faith through those actions
and, in turn, change your thinking to have a mind like Christ, and your faith
will grow.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Through
that faith, you have a shield that WILL PROTECT YOU!</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Extinguish all the flaming
arrows of the evil one</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Your
obtained faith will protect you from a satanic attack</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What
are satanic attacks? What are these flaming arrows?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Twisting
the word of God, <i>“You surely will not die!” </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Genesis 3:3</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Disguises
himself as an angel of light </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">2 Corinthians 11:14</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He
imitates </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Exodus 7; Revelation 13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He steals,
kills, and destroys </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He
afflicts and oppresses</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He
accuses</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">A shield defends against all
attacks.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hearing,
reading, and studying the word of God would;</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Stop
twisting the word with knowledge of the word</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Reveal
the wolf's identity through the sheep’s covering</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Reveal
the imitation by understanding the real thing</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Prevent
the loss of peace, joy, and happiness through theft</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Prevent
untimely death outside of God’s Kingdom and Will</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Prevent
destruction because you are outside of the Kingdom</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Prevent
satanic afflictions and oppression</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Guard
you against wrongful accusations</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All
because you have heard, read, and studied God’s word, and changed how you think
to be more like Christ and live as an imitator of God as His beloved children.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Living
a spiritually fruitful life in the Lord and His kingdom offers protection from
most of what Satan can throw at you, and the Full Armor of God protects you
from the rest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Attacks
still come, whether inside or outside the Kingdom, but God is our protector.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Psalm 18:2</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“Yahweh is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I
take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Psalm 91:2</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “I
will say to Yahweh, “My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust!”</span></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">HOW THE SHIELD WORKS IN THE
SPIRITUAL REALM</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">What is a flaming arrow?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Shot
from a distance</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sometimes,
shot at an individual soldier.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sometimes,
blindly into a crowd or camp</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Flame
spreads to everything around the target, causing collateral damage</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
lie or gossip you believe</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">False
teaching you share</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Misunderstanding
you hold against someone</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Unforgiveness</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lie
or gossip you share</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sin
you allow in your life</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">These
things first affect you, the target, and then, the fire spreads to those around
you, causing more damage.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All
because you were not walking in faith (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Ephesians 5;
6</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">) </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Your
lack of faith led to you not only receiving the striking blow but also allowing
the flame to spread through your participation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Faith protects you, as well
as others, from the flame</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Not
just protecting you from the attack, but through healthy faith, you prevent spreading
the fire and flames to others.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Regardless
of modern words of wisdom, such as “do what you want as long as it doesn’t hurt
others,” the truth is, EVERYTHING we say and do DOES affect others.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our
friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, spouse, and sometimes even those we do
not know.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
you think your life and walk do not affect people you do not know, think again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Protection, not from “some”
or “most,” but ALL the flaming arrows</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God’s
protection is complete if you are entirely invested in Him</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This does not mean attacks won’t come at all. The storms do. This also
does not mean bad things will never happen; they do, and as Jesus pointed out
to the disciples, not everything wrong that happens to you in this world is
because you were sinning. We live in a fallen and imperfect world where you sometimes
receive fire from a sinful world at no fault of your own.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But scripture promises that when we
walk by faith, God is our mighty fortress, our foundation is a strong rock
(Christ,) and we can “withstand” the storms. Simply put, no matter what comes
against us in this life, we will come out on the other side with our faith
intact (if not stronger), knowing that the worst thing that can befall us in
this life is to have this tent (our body) taken from us, which in turn sends us
to be with the Lord in our new body.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Romans 8:31</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “If God is for us, who is against us?”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Hebrews 13:6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Yahweh is my helper, I will not be afraid. What
will man do to me?”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Luke 12:4-5</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “But I say to you, My friends, do not fear those
who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do. 5 But I will
show you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to
cast into Gehenna; yes, I tell you, fear Him!”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Hebrews 11:1</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Now faith is the </span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[LIT:
substance] <i>assurance of things </i>[LIT: expected] <i>hoped for, the </i>[LIT:
evidence] <i>conviction of things not seen.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
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we have reasonable faith because of God’s trustworthiness. We read and study
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the shield of faith, we are protected against satanic attacks and the spreading
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Full Armor
of God</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 6 – The Gospel of Peace</span></i></b></p>
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A. Shields</span></i></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMoF_JwbLR_2OE2IoELgnUnCmA_GmEmvwMgz_gMkkukzYzlk1z9mL1URv9rk9Wm9UIW69Lc6J63wdzDgAUYzeIRDdQzMlC0-iZvwY2Iat9x5LiywxxQ4zVwWC7Adi3NBAXPR9adNqrTk4lz1_UaoduiDo0w1snan5tib6DUBN7jHmURMQGpI5mF2_CWOz-/s512/unnamed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Full Armor of God: Part 6 Gospel of Peace by Rev. Bruce A. Shields" border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="512" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMoF_JwbLR_2OE2IoELgnUnCmA_GmEmvwMgz_gMkkukzYzlk1z9mL1URv9rk9Wm9UIW69Lc6J63wdzDgAUYzeIRDdQzMlC0-iZvwY2Iat9x5LiywxxQ4zVwWC7Adi3NBAXPR9adNqrTk4lz1_UaoduiDo0w1snan5tib6DUBN7jHmURMQGpI5mF2_CWOz-/w400-h225/unnamed.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/full-armor-of-god-part-6-gospel-of-peace" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></span></b><br /></div><div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">This document is a Sermon Outline. You may
hear the full audio of the sermon by following the link <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Online Audio Files </b>located above for this and other Full Sermon
Audios. For a complete list of Sermon Outlines, visit <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">TruthDigest.org </span>or Truth Digest on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span>;
for our Official Church website, visit PS127.org, or find us on <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Facebook</span> at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament #jesuslovesyou
#churchfamily #godsword #loveoneanother #holy #godislove #church #jesus #god
#bible #christian #love #faith #worship #jesuschrist #gospel #prayer #christ
#christianity #pray #holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed #armorofgod</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Strength of the Lord</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Put on the Armor</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Belt of Truth</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Breastplate of Righteousness</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Gospel of Peace</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday. November 12<sup>th</sup>,
2023</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
spoke last week about the Breastplate of Righteousness and how it protects our
hearts and vital organs from attacks. With all this talk of Spiritual Warfare,
battles, and armor, one may think it contrary to covering our feet with the
Gospel of Peace.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>However,
there are many times through the bible and history where followers of God had
to defend themselves and fight wars, not just in the Spirit, but with those who
are filled and led by Satan.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Psalm 144:1</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, Who trains my hands
for war, My fingers for battle;”<b></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Understanding the scripture as a whole
is essential if we wish to not only fulfill God’s calling on us but be able to
defend ourselves and those around us if need be, whether in spiritual warfare
or from the puppets and pawns of Satan, who is actively trying to destroy us.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 6:10-18
(Legacy Standard Bible)</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10 “Finally, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">be</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> strong in the Lord and in the might of His
strength. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">11 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the full armor of God, <u>so that you will be able
to stand firm</u> against the schemes of the devil. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">12 For our struggle is not against flesh
and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world
forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the
heavenly places. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">13 <u>Therefore</u>, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">take up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the full armor of God, <u>so that you will be able
to resist</u> in the evil day, and having </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">done everything</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">to
stand firm</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">14 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Stand firm therefore</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having
girded</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your loins with
truth, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the Breastplate of righteousness, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">15 and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having shod</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of
peace. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">16 In addition to all, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having taken up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the shield of faith with which <u>you will be able
to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one, </u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">17 also </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">receive<i> the helmet of Salvation</i></span></u></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">and
the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">18 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">praying at all times</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with all prayer and petition in the Spirit, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and to this end, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">being on the alert</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with all perseverance and petition for all the
saints</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s
Topic: the Full Armor of God – The Gospel of Peace</span></b></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">TODAY’S MESSAGE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">SHOD YOUR FEET WITH THE
PREPARATION OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">You are instructed to “shod”
your feet with preparation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Shod
means to cover your feet with protection (or the bottom of posts or poles) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Feet
in scripture are symbolic of direction, path, leading, standing (firm) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
your direction, path, leading or standing firm is <u>covered</u> by the Gospel
of Peace, this implies a few things; <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
are following the leading of the Spirit (guidance) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Your
direction <i>will</i> fulfill God’s calling on you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l1 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Remember, success is not measured by merit,
accomplishment, results, etc.. measured by man, but by your obedience as called
by God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-list: l1 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
perfect and sinless teacher Jesus did not convince everyone who heard Him to
repent and accept Salvation. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 202.5pt; mso-list: l1 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -202.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some
who heard Him even wanted to throw Him off a cliff and kill Him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
can stand firm against spiritual attacks BECAUSE you are following the Spirit
of God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God’s
word WILL accomplish what it was sent out to do and will not return to God
void. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Although
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Isaiah 55</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> is prophetic of Jesus and
His ministry, we, as followers of Christ, are commissioned by Him (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 28</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">) to continue His work
after the Cross. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Listen to what God says. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Isaiah 55:11-13</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “So
will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty,
Without accomplishing what pleases Me, And without succeeding in the matter for
which </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">I sent it</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.
12 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">For you will go out with gladness And be led
forth with peace</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">; The mountains and the hills will
break forth into shouts of joy before you, And all the trees of the field will
clap their hands. 13 Instead of the thorn bush the cypress will come up, And
instead of the nettle the myrtle will come up, And it will be to Yahweh for His
renown, For an everlasting sign which will not be cut off.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In
previous verses, Isaiah speaks of the rain coming down from heaven and not
returning until it waters the Earth (by the way, we see scriptures talk about
the “water cycle” here, with rain coming down, then returning to the sky, nearly
2400 years before it was discovered by Bernard Palissy in 1580AD)<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This water coming down metaphorically
speaks of the Holy Spirit coming down from heaven and making it bear and sprout
(</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Isaiah 55:10</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">)</span><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And he speaks of giving seed (which we
know is a metaphor for the Gospel of Jesus Christ) to the sower (those who
share the Gospel) and bread to the eater (Jesus being the bread from heaven,
the bread of life, given to </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">all</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">who take it</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">With the “preparation of the
gospel</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> of peace.”</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Isaiah 52:7 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“How lovely on the
mountains Are the feet of him who proclaims </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">good news</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
Who announces </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">peace</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">proclaims good news of good
things</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, Who announces </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">salvation</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
And says to Zion, “</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Your God reigns</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">!”</span></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 10:12-15</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “For
there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Lord of all</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, abounding in
riches for </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">all who call on Him</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
13 for “</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Whoever calls on the name of
the Lord will be saved</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.” 14 How then will they
call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom
they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? 15 And how will
they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How beautiful are the
feet of those who proclaim good news of good things!”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">The imagery of the foot shod
with the Gospel of Peace is two-fold</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Your
act or preparing yourself with the gospel</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“the
preparation of the Gospel of Peace”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
must KNOW what the Gospel of Peace is<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
must CHOOSE to allow it to guide your way<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ensuring
that is what is driving your steps (direction)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Too
often, we choose a path in life and then say, “God bless it.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Or
we choose a path in life and say, “God is leading me…”</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Or
we think we “hear” from God, yet it is contrary to scripture</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 166.5pt; mso-list: l1 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Or contrary to God’s proclaimed will</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Being sure that we are guided by the Spirit of God,
fully prepared and understanding the Gospel, i.e., a </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 28</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> disciple and not a </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Luke 5</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> disciple, is of the utmost
importance. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If WE chose our path and message, we
may fail and completely misrepresent God and His Word.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">WHAT IS THE GOSPEL OF PEACE
WE ARE TO PROCLAIM?<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Isaiah 52:7</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> states</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Good News</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> – means “a gift from God.” It is the
proclamation of the forgiveness of sins and sonship with God restored through
Christ. Remission of sins and reconciliation with God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Peace</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> – absence of chaos, good relations among people, as
a virtue, and a right relationship with God through Christ <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Good News of Good Things</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> – Speaking of the “good
news” gifts from God <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Salvation</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> – for all who call on His name <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">God Reigns</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> – Proclaiming there is but one God
above all.<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 10:12-15</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> states</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Lord is Lord of </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">ALL</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Abounding
in riches for </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">ALL</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
who call on Him</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">WHOEVER</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> calls on the name of the Lord </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">WILL</span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> be saved</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To say these (and many, many others in
the New Testament) do not apply to ALL or WHOEVER, but only the “elect” and
specially chosen of God to be saved implies various unscriptural doctrines; <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Not
only would you have to re-write (ignore regular reading) the meaning of words
by definition, but you would also have to say other scriptures in the text are
FALSE, such as… <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Timothy 2:3-6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“This is good and acceptable in the sight of </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">God our
Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of
the truth</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(REAL PREDESTINATION!)<i> 5
For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ
Jesus, 6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the witness for this proper
time.”</i> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Regardless
of man-made doctrines taught by certain man-made denominations regarding who can
accept Jesus and be “saved,” scripture is CLEAR on the matter, and it is not up
to debate. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Timothy 2</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> –
God desires ALL MEN TO BE SAVED</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 10</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> –
The Lord is Lord of ALL, abounding in riches FOR ALL who call on Him, and
WHOEVER calls on the name of the Lord WILL BE SAVED. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Do not believe the doctrines of men, which are
created to foster control over people, legitimize themselves as the ONLY bearer
of the truth, and manipulate the people of God into following man and his
teaching rather than what the Word of God “literally” states.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">About the Gospel of Peace</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How
will they call on Him if they don’t believe? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How
will they believe in what they have not heard? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How
will they hear if no one proclaims? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How
can they proclaim unless they are sent?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">By
the way, it makes no sense to preach the Gospel to the lost if God has already
chosen who goes to hell and heaven. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
if God chooses some for hell, why would scripture say it is His will that ALL
ARE SAVED? Is He going against Himself? Is God schizophrenic? Is He a liar,
saying one thing but doing another? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some
would have you believe so. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Who
are the elect, then? Those who BELIEVED the word they heard from the one
proclaiming the Good News, called on His name, and were saved.<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Believers are priests unto
the Lord, sent to proclaim the Good News</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Believers are saints and
priests who are sent to proclaim the Good News</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Hebrews 9:11</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Christ
is the High Priest <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-list: l1 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Peter 2:9-10</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“But
you are a </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">chosen family, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
so that you </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">may proclaim the excellencies
of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">;
10 for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had
not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
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</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Sent to those who have not
heard so that they might believe</span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Matthew 28</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(and
others), we are sent into the entire world to proclaim the Gospel</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></b></p>
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</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Giving
all those who hear the opportunity to believe</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Sitka Text"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Sitka Text";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Believing they might call on
the name of the Lord and be saved</span></b></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because,
as the scripture says clearly, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">Romans 10:12-13</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “For
there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of
all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him, 13 for “Whoever calls on the
name of the Lord will be saved.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
are called by the Lord to be the priests and preachers of the Good News. God’s
Spirit guiding us to those who need to hear the Gospel, so that they might
believe, call on the Name of the Lord and be saved.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
we do this, we are fulfilling the WILL OF GOD as He states it;</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">1 Timothy 2:3-6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“This is good and acceptable in the sight of </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Sitka Text"; font-size: 13pt;">God our
Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of
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</div>Rev. B. A. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972080147586798817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4176907472195000923.post-14933436251619497292023-11-12T06:08:00.004-05:002023-11-12T06:08:45.770-05:00Full Armor of God Part 5 – The Breastplate of Righteousness by Rev. Bruce A. Shields<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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at House of Faith Church.</span></i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">#worship #godheals #newtestament #jesuslovesyou
#churchfamily #godsword #loveoneanother #holy #godislove #church #jesus #god
#bible #christian #love #faith #worship #jesuschrist #gospel #prayer #christ
#christianity #pray #holyspirit #godisgood #hope #blessed #armorofgod</span></i></p>
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Lord</span><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Put on the Armor</span><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Belt of Truth</span><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The Breastplate of
Righteousness</span><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today is Sunday.
November 5<sup>th</sup>, 2023</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We spoke last week about wearing the
Belt of Truth from the Full Armor of God and how important the belt is to the
other parts, including the Breastplate and holding your sword.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Before that, we spoke about how many
times in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians</span></i></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> we are told to “do” something, such as “put on,” “take up,” and “stand
firm.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We must remember that although our
strength comes from the Lord, and He equips us, we still have our part to play
in the matter at hand. Paul compares what we are speaking of in Ephesians to
war. We must take the symbolism and allegories and seek understanding in their
meaning to fully grasp what the Spirit of God is trying to tell us in these
verses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let’s say a country takes soldiers
and gives them the best equipment. Top of the line, new, fully stocked, and
armed with the best money can buy. This soldier has the power and might of the
country behind him, and his call to duty is to fulfill the desires of his
country using the means provided to him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>However, when it is time to go into
battle, if that soldier does not “put on his gear,” “take up his armor,”
“receive the firearm given to him,” or doesn’t “stand firm,” how will he do in
battle?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Can you imagine going into battle
without your firearm?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Although the battle was won by the
power of God, what if David did not take his sling? The sling he kept by his
side while tending the flocks for years. The sling he had trained with and
killed many lions and wolves with. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We have our responsibilities in this
world to serve our Lord Jesus Christ. There are things we must DO. Because
reading and hearing is only part of the Word of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">James 1:22</span></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “become doers of the word, and not merely
hearers who delude themselves.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Psalm
144:1</span></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Blessed be Yahweh,
my rock, Who trains my hands for war, My fingers for battle;”<b></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There is an old saying. “A student
asked, You teach me to fight, but you talk about peace. How do you reconcile
the two? The teacher replied, It is better to be a warrior in a garden than to
be a gardener in a war.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sometimes,
it feels contrary to be called to bring peace wherever we roam, yet bless God
for training our hands for war. But the two go hand in hand because while we
bring the Gospel of Peace to those who will receive it, some work tirelessly to
destroy us and our work for the Lord.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Therefore,
we must be doers of the word, taking what we read and hear and putting it into
practice in our lives so that we may be prepared both to share the gospel of
peace with others and defend ourselves in our battles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
we study the word of God, we must use proper exegesis and hermeneutics. These
sound like terrible diseases or perhaps the next strain of uncontrollable
viruses; however, they are crucial to proper study, even if you never remember
their names.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Simplified,
think of who the word was written to, what it was to accomplish, what was going
on at the time, in context with the rest of the book, in context with the Bible
as a whole, and glean what it is saying to you today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
this way, you will find understanding through the Holy Spirit of what you read.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Keeping that in mind,
the previous chapter of </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians</span></i></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 5:1</span></i></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> to </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians 6:10,</span></i></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> tells us </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">how</span></i></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> to be imitators of God. The scriptures </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">then</span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> tell us about what the Lord has done to
prepare us for spiritual battle by giving us the Full Armor of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>From this, one can infer that to
obtain access to the full armor of God, one must be actively trying to be a
doer of the word and live as an imitator of God as His beloved children.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In other words, you cannot live in
sin, or however you wish and expect to have access to the full armor of God. It
is reserved for those who are dedicated to serving the Lord.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Can I walk up to a United States
military facility and demand they give me all the armor and supplies I need to
fight in battle and throw in an M249 and a few thousand rounds. Also, an A10 to
get me around?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Of course not. It is entirely
ridiculous to think so. Yet, we see those who do not wish to walk the narrow
path always demand this of God, believing they can live however they choose and
still receive all the benefits and blessings of God’s Kingdom.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That is not how it works…anywhere.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Ephesians
6:10-18 (Legacy Standard Bible)</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10 “Finally, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">be</span></u></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> strong in the Lord and in the might of
His strength. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">11 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Put on</span></u></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the full armor of God, <u>so that you
will be able to stand firm</u> against the schemes of the devil. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">12 For our struggle
is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the
authorities, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual
forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">13 <u>Therefore</u>, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">take up</span></u></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the full armor of God, <u>so that you
will be able to resist</u> in the evil day, and having </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">done
everything</span></u></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">to stand
firm</span></u></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">14 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Stand
firm therefore</span></u></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having girded</span></u></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your loins with truth, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having
put on</span></u></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the Breastplate of
righteousness, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">15 and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having
shod</span></u></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your feet with the
preparation of the gospel of peace. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">16 In addition to
all, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">having taken up</span></u></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the shield of faith with which <u>you will be able
to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one, </u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">17 also </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">receive<i>
the helmet of salvation</i></span></u></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God</span></u></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">18 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">praying
at all times</span></u></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with all prayer and petition in the Spirit, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and to this end, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">being on
the alert</span></u></i></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> with all
perseverance and petition for all the saints</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">Today’s
Topic: the Full Armor of God – Breastplate of Righteousness</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TODAY’S
MESSAGE</span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE PURPOSE OF THE ARMOR</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TO EQUIP THE
SAINT FOR BATTLE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">According to scripture, all
believers are saints, not just the ones deemed so by someone in a castle with a
big hat. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If you are a believer, you are in
the Lord’s army, and a spiritual battle is taking place right now as we speak.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Lord wants you to be equipped
and prepared for it so you may be victorious and live as an overcomer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EACH PIECE
IS VITAL AND SERVES A PURPOSE</span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All parts are different, and each
has a duty to perform. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When we equip the entirety of the
Full Armor, we are at our strongest in the Lord and equipped for service.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If we do not equip a part or wear
(use it) incorrectly, we are in danger of weakness from our armor
malfunctioning. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The devil does not look for your
strengths to attack but your weaknesses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Do not underestimate his cunningness.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Be of sober spirit, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, prowls
around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1
Peter 5:8</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A lion hunts for the weak, lame,
sick, and those who wander too far from the herd.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SATAN SEEKS
WEAKNESS AND OPENINGS IN YOUR ARMOR<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Does anyone know what a
Misericorde is?</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It is a Latin word that comes from
the French word for mercy.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It is a specially designed long
dagger used in the High Middle Ages to deliver the death stroke in battle.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If a knight was seriously wounded
in battle, it was considered merciful to deliver the dagger through the opening
in the top of the knight's armor near the neck, down to the heart, or through
the helms view ports piercing the brain.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Satan, in the same way, looks for
openings in your armor and wishes to strike at our weakest of parts.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Living righteously in truth helps
us remove the weakness of our armor, making us strong in the Lord and able to
stand firm against Satan’s attacks and resist the evil day.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you
sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">James
4:7- <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It does not say the devil won’t
attack, but if we resist, he WILL flee!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE
BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is a Breastplate?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Armor protecting your vital organs, such as your heart<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is the Breastplate of Righteousness?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It refers to the righteousness purchased by Christ at the
cross</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“He made Him
who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the
righteousness of God in Him.” <b>2 Corinthians 5:21</b> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Through Christ, we can be the righteousness of God.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We can live as beloved children imitating God.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What does the Breastplate accomplish?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Breastplate of Righteousness protects our heart and soul
from evil and deception. We NEED the righteousness of Christ because ours is no
match for an attack by Satan.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“For all of
us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a
filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the
wind, carry us away.” <b>Isaiah 64:6</b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When we acknowledge that our strength and righteousness are
insufficient for battle, equip ourselves with the strength and might of the
Lord, and equip God’s armor, that is when we are truly ready for battle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">LIVING IT
OUT TODAY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are instructed to “Put On” </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This implies we do not automatically wear this at all times.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Putting on the Breastplate of righteousness is a decision on
our part.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We must first ensure we have the Belt of Truth to fasten it<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Without the truth of God’s word, righteousness is based on
our own attempts, which can lead to condemnation because we are attempting to
do things in the flesh rather than the Spirit of Truth.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in
Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you
free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the Law could not do, weak as
it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so
that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not
walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” <b>Romans 8:1-4</b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">APART FROM HIM, WE CAN DO NOTHING<i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vine-grower. 2
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch
that bears fruit, He [a]cleans it so that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are
already [b]clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me,
and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit from itself unless it abides in
the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. 5 I am the vine, you are
the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart
from Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away
as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and
they are burned.” <b>John 15:1-6</b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 58.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">HOW DO WE “PUT ON” THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS?<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Firstly, we make the decision to<b><i></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
instruction is given, put on<b><i></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We obey <b><i></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Obedience to
the word makes us righteous in His sight.<b><i></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Do you not
know that when you go on presenting yourselves to someone as slaves for
obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin leading to
death, or of <b>obedience leading to righteousness</b>?” <b>Romans 6:16</b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 94.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -94.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We seek His Righteousness.<b><i></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 130.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Calibri Light";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“But
continually seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things
will be provided to you.” <b>Matthew 6:33</b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let's read Ephesians and really take
our time to absorb its content. We will better understand what the Lord has
prepared for us to enable us to “stand firm against the schemes of the devil
AND resist the evil day” and how this applies to our everyday walk.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Breastplate of Righteousness
protects our hearts and souls from evil and deception and develops in us purity
of heart, which drives our actions. It creates a lifestyle of putting into
practice what we believe in our hearts, and our lives conform to the image of
Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Breastplate protects us from
temptation and deception.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It is another part of the Full Armor
which enables us to stand firm in this evil day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; mso-mirror-indents: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Assistant;"> </span></i></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Full Armor of God</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Part 4 – Belt of Truth</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Rev. Bruce A. Shields</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga_HcV7iNzgOzIZz_ACdF1zQFneGgjB6UXcCOM6Cz-OZfRnphYM02RCV_havdFHWN0KbCSREKi4a006scvBnEwuNKQjNNcDfdpMim5UsKXyUIM5ZlKPtoF6Kzf9sYMglDa19ApNk9OVBClNfS2i2XH1lMGO4UB1zBCKTzz5JPHKmWiNx_lHzW2KEFaowf2/s1280/maxresdefault.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Full Armor of God: Belt of Truth by Rev. Bruce A. Shields" border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga_HcV7iNzgOzIZz_ACdF1zQFneGgjB6UXcCOM6Cz-OZfRnphYM02RCV_havdFHWN0KbCSREKi4a006scvBnEwuNKQjNNcDfdpMim5UsKXyUIM5ZlKPtoF6Kzf9sYMglDa19ApNk9OVBClNfS2i2XH1lMGO4UB1zBCKTzz5JPHKmWiNx_lHzW2KEFaowf2/w400-h225/maxresdefault.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/full-armor-of-god-part-4-belt-of-truth" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Strength of the Lord</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Put on the Armor</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Belt of Truth</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today is Sunday. October 29<sup>th</sup>, 2023</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
began our look into what it means to be a Christian, or follower of Jesus
Christ, and how God enables and equips us to serve Him. By learning the
difference between the <b><i>Luke 5</i></b> and <b><i>Matthew 28</i></b> disciple, we see that the Lord
calls us to service and gives us a portion of His Holy Spirit to empower us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With
salvation comes the indwelling of God’s very own Spirit, and with the Spirit,
we receive the Fruits of the Spirit, which is the character of God Himself
shown through us and produced in our lives, as long as we do not quench the
work of the Holy Spirit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
second thing we are endowed with is the Full Armor of God to withstand and win
the spiritual battles in this realm. This is the focus of our latest series,
after which we will look at the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, which are specialized
and unique abilities given to the members of the Body of Christ to edify,
strengthen, and build the church.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We’ve
examined </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 6</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, looked at the instruction to live in the strength
of the Lord, and put on the Full Armor of God, and now we will break down each
piece and discover its meaning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SCRIPTURE READING <i>(Legacy Standard Bible) </i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The previous chapter of </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> encourages us in</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
5:1</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians
5:1</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians
6:10</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> tells us <i>how</i>
to be imitators of God. The scriptures then tell us about what the Lord has
done to prepare us for spiritual battle by giving us the Full Armor of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians
6:10-18</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10 “Finally, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">be</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> strong in the Lord and in the
might of His strength. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the full armor of God, <u>so that
you will be able to stand firm</u> against the schemes of the devil. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12 For our struggle is not against
flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the
world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in
the heavenly places. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13 <u>Therefore</u>, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">take
up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the full
armor of God, <u>so that you will be able to resist</u> in the evil day, and
having </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">done everything</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to stand firm</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stand firm therefore</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">having girded</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> your loins with truth, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">having
put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the
breastplate of righteousness, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15 and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">having
shod</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> your feet
with the preparation of the gospel of peace. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16 In addition to all, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">having
taken up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the
shield of faith with which <u>you will be able to extinguish all the flaming
arrows of the evil one, </u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17 also </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">receive<i>
the helmet of salvation</i></span></u></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">praying at all times</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> with all prayer and petition in
the Spirit, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and to this end, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">being
on the alert</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> with all perseverance and petition for all the saints</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today’s Topic: the Full Armor of God
– Put on the Belt of Truth</span></b></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TODAY’S MESSAGE</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 27pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHAT TYPE OF ARMOR IS PAUL REFERRING TO?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who was the greatest military force at the time?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Roman Army was one of the most
successful in the history of the world, and its soldiers were rightly feared.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two thousand years ago, Rome ruled
the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From England to Africa and from
Syria to Spain, one in every four people on earth lived and died under Roman
law.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Latin and Greek were the dominant
languages of the Roman Empire.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like American English today, most
around the world at the time knew how to speak some Greek.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is why the New Testament was
written in Greek as opposed to the native tongue of the authors, Hebrew.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you want the world to know
about Christ Jesus, then you write in a language most could read.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Were the readers of Ephesians familiar with Roman Armor?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of course. At the time, everyone
in the world was</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Which makes it perfect for
illustrating the power of God and the Holy Spirit for the real fight, Spiritual</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Roman Cingulum</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today, we will focus on the piece
of Roman armor known as the cingulum.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 81.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 81pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The cingulum is a belt around the
waist.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Girding your loins meant fastening
a belt around your waist to attach your armor if you were Roman, and in other
cultures, such as the Hebrew soldiers, it referred to the belt being used to
pull your garments through to prepare yourself for battle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Either way, the cingulum is the
most essential part of your armor.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 27pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHAT EXACTLY IS THE BELT FOR?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Girding</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you were a Roman soldier, nearly
all your armor and weapons were fastened to your cingulum or belt.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The same is true for Hebrew
soldiers as well.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your sword, dagger, cloak, and breastplate
(usually with pauldrons and a bevor or gorget) were all attached to the
cingulum/belt.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Without a belt, there was no
sheath for your sword or dagger and nothing to fasten your breastplate to… they
relied upon your cingulum.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Holding all parts together or used by itself</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The cingulum was so important they
wore it even without their armor on. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Always wearing a sword.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What about the Hebrews?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remember when Jesus scolded Peter for being the aggressor and drawing his
sword in the garden to attack the servant, cutting off his ear?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes, the disciples wore swords for protection and defense.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However, Jesus made it clear in
scripture that we are not to be the aggressors</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Though God allows us to protect
ourselves, our families, the innocent, women and children, and our land, we
must never be the ones bringing violence where there is peace.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In fact, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians
6</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> tells us
that the feet of the Christian soldier are covered with “preparation of the
Gospel of Peace.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In other words, we bring peace and the gospel of Christ Jesus with us wherever
we roam.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Made of leather for strength</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The cingulum was made of strong
leather because much was being asked of it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you were to take a leather belt
in your hands and try to rip or break it, you could not.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not the pleather or cheaply made modern belts which say 100% leather, but
in reality are two less than paper thin strips glued to something to resemble a
leather strap.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I worked with leather for years in
my leather shop, and I will tell you, I could not tear a 3 oz leather strap,
let alone a 10-12 oz used for belts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GIRDING YOURSELF WITH TRUTH</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Listed first among the Full Armor of God</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The first part because it is the
most important</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Truth is of the utmost importance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God’s word is Truth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 17:17-19</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus said,<i> “Sanctify them by the truth; </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your
word is truth</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. “As You
sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world. “For their sake I
sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 1:1-2 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">– Jesus is the Word</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 14:6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
truth</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, and the
life. No one comes to the Father but through Me.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The word of God is truth. Jesus is
the word. Jesus says I am the truth.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Belt of truth is the truth of
scripture and the truth of Jesus, which binds everything together, and where we
get the </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 6:10-11</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“be strong in the Lord and in the might of <u>His strength</u>. 11 Put on
the full armor of God</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes
of the devil</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Holding all other parts together</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just as the cingulum is leather, rugged,
unbreakable, and strong enough to hold the other pieces of armor in place and
hang your weapons from, so is the truth of Jesus and the word of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What does this mean in a practical
sense to us?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The wearing and usage of the Full armor of God in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians
6</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is based
upon the truth of God’s Holy Word.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Greek word used for truth is alētheia (Strongs225), and can be
defined as:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unveiled reality</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Evidence in relation to facts</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Purity from error or falsehood</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With sincerity of heart, not merely with external rites</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If we do not act in sincerity of heart, we are lying and behaving in a
hypocritical way.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians
1:13</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “In Him,
you also, after listening to the word of truth, the gospel of your
salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of
promise,”</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians
4:14-15</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “so that
we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried
about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in
deceitful scheming, but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all
aspects into Him who is the head, that is Christ,”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians
5:6-9</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “Let no
one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God
comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them,
for you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as
children of light (for the fruit of that light consists in all goodness and
righteousness and truth),”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The belt was worn at all times.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Knowing what we do now about the
cingulum and its function, we can see why Paul refers to it as the Belt of
Truth because Truth is where we draw our strength and from which the other
parts of the armor are fastened.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Without the belt of truth, we have no strength.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Without the belt of truth, there is nothing to fasten our breastplate of
righteousness to</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Without the belt of truth, there is nowhere to hang the Sword of the
Spirit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All we have, hold, give, and do in
speech and deed, MUST be done wearing the Belt of Truth!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Understanding
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians
6</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, and the
modern equivalent, will help us understand the purpose of the Full Armor of
God, and why it is essential if we are to serve Christ effectively. We are at
war spiritually, and thus, need to be armed and protected spiritually as well.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Knowing
the first and most crucial piece to the Full Armor of God is the Belt of Truth,
all things are held together with it, and even in our leisure, we must wear it,
keeping the Sword of the Spirit by our side at all times.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <br /></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 John 3:18 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech
but with actions and in truth.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3 John 1:4</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “I have no greater joy than to hear that my
children are walking in the truth.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Truth is
something we walk in. Our actions and truth show others love, and when we base
all things upon the Truth of God’s word, all things are strengthened and righteous.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Strength of the Lord</span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Put on the Armor</span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today is Sunday. October 22<sup>nd</sup>,
2023</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We began our series, Full Armor of
God, speaking in general about the armor made available through the Holy Spirit
when we belong to God. Though we may have troubles and fights with others, we
are told that the real enemy is working behind the scenes in the spirit realm
and, therefore, must be fought in the spirit realm.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We spoke last week about doing things
in the strength of the Lord and how, as David said, though we seek peace, God
has trained my hand for war. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Scriptures tell us to seek peace,
even walking away from trouble if possible. We have all heard “turn the other
cheek.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Unfortunately, it is not always
possible, and we are allowed by God to defend ourselves. Even in those times,
we must remember the true enemy that works against us, and our faith is
spiritual. Working and manipulating behind the scenes, wanting to destroy all
that is godly and beautiful in this world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Satan’s goal is not just to make
mankind suffer but to use the suffering of men to hurt the creator. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How does Satan choose his marks? How
does he get away with this? What can we do about it?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hopefully, I will be able to
articulate the answer for you in today's message.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SCRIPTURE READING <i>(Legacy
Standard Bible) </i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
previous chapter of </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
encourages us in</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 5:1</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 5:1</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 6:10</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
tells us <i>how</i> to be imitators of God. The scriptures then tell us about
what the Lord has done to prepare us for spiritual battle by giving us the Full
Armor of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 6:10-18</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10
“Finally, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">be</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
strong in the Lord and in the might of His strength. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the
full armor of God, <u>so that you will be able to stand firm</u> against the
schemes of the devil. </span></i></p>
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For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
against the authorities, against the world forces of this darkness, against the
spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13 <u>Therefore</u>,
</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">take up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the
full armor of God, <u>so that you will be able to resist</u> in the evil day,
and having </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">done everything</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to stand firm</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stand firm therefore</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">having girded</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> your
loins with truth, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">having put on</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the
breastplate of righteousness, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15
and </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">having shod</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> your
feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16 In
addition to all, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">having taken up</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the
shield of faith with which <u>you will be able to extinguish all the flaming
arrows of the evil one, </u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17
also </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">receive<i> the helmet of
salvation</i></span></u></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and the sword of the Spirit,
which is the word of God</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">praying at all times</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> with
all prayer and petition in the Spirit, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
to this end, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">being on the alert</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> with
all perseverance and petition for all the saints</span></i></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today’s
Topic: the Full Armor of God – Put on the Armor</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TODAY’S MESSAGE</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 27pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">HOW IS SATAN FIGHTING THIS WAR?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Spiritually, methodically
choosing his victims</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 Peter 5:5-8</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “You
younger men, likewise, be subject to your elders. And all of you, clothe
yourselves with humility toward one another, for GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD,
BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE. Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty
hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, CASTING ALL YOUR ANXIETY
ON HIM, because He cares for you. Be of sober spirit, be watchful. Your
adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to
devour.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are told a few things in these few
verses. Firstly, be humble because God is opposed to the proud.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Satan was expelled from heaven because of
pride.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Pride goes before destruction, And a
haughty spirit before stumbling.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Proverbs
16:18</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God gives grace to the humble.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Secondly, Cast ALL your anxiety on Him
because He cares for you<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He wants you to seek Him with all your
problems, fears, stress, and anxiety, throw it all at His feet, and remind
yourself God cares for you.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lastly, Be of sober spirit.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meaning, take this seriously, be watchful.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your adversary, the devil, prowls around
like a roaring lion.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seeking someone to devour<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
devil is “actively looking” for people to destroy.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
and his minions</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
the devil is a lion, and we are the sheep, how does he choose whom he will
devour?<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the same way, a lion does<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who is weak in faith<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who has wandered too far from the safety of
the herd?<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who is ignorant of the lion's ways and
trusts what he says<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How does he get away with this?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because
the devil is the god of this age.<i> “And even if our gospel is veiled, it is
veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this age has
blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of
the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2 Corinthians 3-4</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remember
last week I read the scripture saying the devil knows “his time is short?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is the time scripture refers to.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
the devil was not the god of this age, as Paul states in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2 Corinthians</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
which was written after Christ went to the cross, then the devil would not have
been able to tempt Jesus with something that was not his to give.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Again, the devil took Him to a very high
mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; and he
said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship
me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘YOU SHALL WORSHIP
THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM ONLY.’” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matthew
4:8-10</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So
the devil, because he is the god of this age, roams around looking for those
who are lost to destroy their lives so they may never be found.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He looks for the broken ones and kicks them
while they are down.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.5in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He looks for believers, too, who are weak in
faith<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wander too far from other believers, because
there IS strength in numbers<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or believers who do not know their word.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“My
people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected
knowledge, I also will reject you from ministering as My priest. Since you have
forgotten the law of your God, I Myself also will forget your children.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hosea 4:6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If a
sheep does not belong to the Shepherd, how can he protect and provide for it?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
the sheep is not the Shepherd’s, and it has offspring, how can they be
protected?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If we
“forgot” about God and live without Him, how can we dare hold Him accountable
for the things Satan does to us to keep us from God?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
devil is the god of this age, but his time is short. The Day of the Lord will
happen, and all will be judged.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“But
do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one
day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is
not slow about His promise, as some consider slowness, but is patient toward
you, not willing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. But the
day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away
with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth
and its works will be found out. Since all these things are to be destroyed in
this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the
heavens burning will be destroyed, and the elements will melt with intense
heat! But according to His promise we are looking for NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW
EARTH, in which righteousness dwells.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2 Peter
3:8-13</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What can we do about it?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Read
the word of God and find out!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">REALIZING THE FIGHT IS
SPIRITUAL, BUT SO IS THE KINGDOM</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our real enemy is working
behind the spiritual curtain</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
see this in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and
throughout the scriptures</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord’s Kingdom is Spiritual
as well</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
will one day be here as a physical Kingdom, but on a NEW EARTH</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We only see part of the
picture.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With
five senses locking us into this realm and only one “eye,” our spirit with
God’s spirit, which we see into the other.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Listen
to the still and quiet voice of the Lord within you. He will grant you focus
and understanding, and you will get the whole picture!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BE DOERS OF THE WORD, NOT JUST
HEARING AND DECEIVING YOURSELF</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We must be doers of the word</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
is the secret to unpacking </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 6:10-18</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is
not about having abilities or superpowers if you belong to God, but by DOING
what you are told in these verses, your obedience unlocks the door, and the
powers of the Kingdom are released in your life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Examine Ephesians 6:10-18
closely!</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BE</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> strong in the Lord
(last week's message)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <u>PUT
ON</u></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the <u>FULL</u> armor of God</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SO</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> you
will be able to stand firm (not parts of it, but ALL)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TAKE UP</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the <u>FULL</u> armor
of God</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SO</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> you
will be able to resist the evil day (which day is not evil right now?)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Doing
everything to stand firm…which is what? </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">verses
10-13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be strong in the Lord</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Put on, and take up the Full Armor of God</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Stand firm, therefore
(because you did </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">verse 10-13</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gird</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> your
loins with the truth (warriors girded their loins to prepare for battle</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Put on</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the
breastplate of righteousness (which protects your heart from the devil's
attacks)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shod</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> your feet with the
preparation of the gospel of peace (ready to share the gospel of salvation with
all and bring peace wherever you go, no confrontation and conflict)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is the turn of the other
cheek of the peaceful warrior whose hand is not bringing violence but can
defend itself because God has prepared it for war.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are not to be violent, aggressive
instigators.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Take up your shield</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SO you can extinguish <u>ALL</u> the flaming
arrows of the evil one (what good are the devil's fiery arrows when they are
blocked and extinguished?)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>viii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RECEIVE</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(It
is a free gift, but you must TAKE it)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The helm of Salvation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Sword of the Spirit (which is the word
of God)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This verse takes a step away from the rest,
instructing you to DO something.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This verse simply says you </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MUST RECEIVE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> something.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The helm of salvation gives you knowledge
and understanding and protects your mind from Satan’s attacks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And the sword of the spirit, which is the
word of God</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We must receive it, read it, study it, apply
it</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level5 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is our sword for spiritual battle</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -2.75in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
sword is used for defense and attack of the enemy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 2.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ix.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Praying</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> at all times and </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">being on alert</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many do not pray, and we MUST!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many are not on alert.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remember
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 5</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> explaining how to be
imitators of God as His beloved children?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 5:14-17</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “For
this reason it says, “Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will
shine on you.” Therefore look carefully how you walk, not as unwise but as
wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. On account of this, do not
be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Revelation 3:1-3</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “And
to the angel of the church in Sardis write: This is what He who has the seven
Spirits of God and the seven stars, says: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a
name that you are alive, but you are dead. ‘Wake up, and strengthen the things
that remain, which were about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete
in the sight of My God. ‘So remember what you have received and heard; and keep
it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and
you will not know at what hour I will come to you.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pray…and wake up.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 6 is the instructions
for “how to be,” an <i>Ephesians 5</i> imitator of God as His beloved children.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Put
on…SO you will be able to stand firm</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Take
up…SO you will be able to resist</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do
everything to stand firm</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stand
firm, therefore</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gird
your loins</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Put
on the breastplate</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shod
your feet</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Take
up your shield</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RECEIVE
the helm of Salvation, and the Sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pray
at all times, being on alert.<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">James
1:22 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“But become doers of the
word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Love does not work evil
against a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law. And do this,
knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for
now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed. The night is almost gone,
and the day is at hand. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and
put on the armor of light.” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Romans
13:10-12</span></i></b></p>
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win far more battles in life if we understand Ephesians 6!</span></i></b></p>
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Armor of God</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Strength of the Lord</span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today is Sunday. October 15<sup>th</sup>,
2023</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We began our series, Full Armor of
God, last week.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Spiritual warfare began millennia ago
when Satan rebelled against God, and it continues in many forms today. Though
it may appear as wars against nations, families, faith, or even in our very
minds, the fact remains that spiritual warfare is behind all ungodly and sinful
things.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The goal of spiritual warfare is not
to “overthrow God and allow Satan to take His throne” because it is impossible
for a created thing to overtake the creator. The actual goal of spiritual
warfare is to steal, kill, and deceive humakind.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Satan knows his time is short. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Revelation 12:12</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
“…rejoice, O heavens and you who [e]dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the
sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that
he has only a short time.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He wants to cause as
much pain and suffering as possible to the children of God before Judgment Day.
He wants to steal your joy, hope, life, and everything you love and cherish and
cause as much suffering as imaginable on earth for as long as he can.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We are at war, but we have the
greatest defender of all, the Lord, and He has equipped us for service in His
army.</span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SCRIPTURE READING <i>(Legacy
Standard Bible) </i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
previous chapter encourages us in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 5:1</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 5:1</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 6:10</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> tells
us how to be imitators of God. The scriptures then tell us about what the Lord
has done to prepare us for spiritual battle by giving us the Full Spiritual
Armor of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 6:10-18</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
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“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the might of His strength. </span></i></p>
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Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against
the schemes of the devil. </span></i></p>
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For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
against the authorities, against the world forces of this darkness, against the
spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. </span></i></p>
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Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in
the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. </span></i></p>
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Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, </span></i></p>
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having put on the breastplate of righteousness, </span></i></p>
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and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16 In
addition to all, having taken up the shield of faith with which you will be
able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one, </span></i></p>
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also receive the helmet of salvation, </span></i></p>
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the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,</span></i></p>
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praying at all times with all prayer and petition in the Spirit, </span></i></p>
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to this end, being on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the
saints</span></i></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today’s
Topic: the Full Armor of God – Strength in the Lord</span></b></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TODAY’S MESSAGE</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 27pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WE ARE SOLDIERS IN THE LORDS
ARMY</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are Christian Soldiers</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do
you mean God approves of war?</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He did not start it, but He will finish it.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We know from scripture, <i>“…the wicked and
the one who loves violence His </i>(God)<i> soul hates” </i>(</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 11:5</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You must remember this: it is not wicked,
nor do you love violence if you defend yourself.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Defending
yourself is not seeking vengeance, God repays (</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Romans
12:19</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
there are times when we do have to fight.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 144:1,2</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
“Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, Who trains my hands for war, My fingers for
battle; 2 My lovingkindness and my fortress, My stronghold and my deliverer, My
shield and He in whom I take refuge, Who subdues peoples under me.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We do
not seek out war, but we will defend ourselves.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
are not looking to be wicked and violent, but wanting peace, but God has
trained our hand for war.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus
tells the disciples in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Luke 22:36</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “He
said to them, “But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a
knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some try to say Jesus is telling them to buy a bible
because </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 6:17</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> says
the sword of the spirit is the word of God. However, there are a few things
wrong with that interpretation. Firstly, there are no bibles to “buy” at this
time. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Secondly, the apostles have not written the texts
yet because, at this point, Jesus has not died on the cross yet. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thirdly, Jesus did not say to buy a “sword of the
spirit, which is the word of God,” but a sword.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just before Jesus says this, He tells the disciples,
"Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat.” He then tells them He is
praying their faith will not fail during this. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus says, <i>“When I sent you out without money
belt and bag and sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Not a thing.” 36
And He said to them, “But now, whoever has a money belt is to take it along,
likewise also a bag, and whoever has no sword should sell his garment and buy
one. 37 For I tell you that this which is written must be completed in Me, ‘And
He was numbered with transgressors’; for that which refers to Me has its
completion.” 38 And they said, “Lord, look, here are two swords.” And He said
to them, “It is enough.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is it Jesus is telling them?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you have money, use it to escape. If you have
supplies (a bag), use it to escape. If you have no sword, sell something and
get one because you will need it for protection.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They say, look, here are two swords. (So they were
already carrying them for protection.) Jesus says that’s enough because they
were not building an army but trying to protect themselves.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our battle is not against flesh
and blood</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians
makes that clear</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
the Bible also makes it clear Satan uses armies of people to attack and
slaughter God’s people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Goliath
was not “spiritual” but a real person. Israel is currently defending itself
against flesh and blood. However, I assure you, the war is spiritual.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although
he stood against Goliath, David was not truly fighting Goliath but defeating
the spiritual forces behind him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes,
we must defend ourselves against flesh and blood, but the battle is still
spiritual.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Spiritual warfare can only be
won spiritually.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When
Simon Peter (the very first disciple of Jesus) cut off the High Priest's slave
ear with a sword in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 18</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, why
was Jesus angry?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because
he acted out in violence, was the aggressor, and was trying to stop them from
taking Jesus, which was supposed to take place so He could go to the cross.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 18:11</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “So
Jesus said to Peter, “Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father
has given Me, shall I not drink it?”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Notice a few things here. Jesus did not tell Simon
Peter to get rid of the sword. He had just told them earlier that night to get
them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus did not want Simon Peter to get in the way of
the cross.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, as followers of Christ, as children of God, we
have the right to protect ourselves, not the right to be wicked and love
violence or seek out confrontation and war. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The truth is that a group of disciples walking with
swords around their waist is less likely to run into resistance while fleeing
than unarmed men. That was the point. Defense.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">David did not look for a Palestinian to kill but
found the children of God confronted by them as they prepared to be attacked.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Exodus 22:2-3</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> says
if a theif breaks into our homes at night and we kill them protecting
ourselves, family or property, we are not guilty of murder.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Luke 11:21</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
“When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are safe”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But make no mistake…we are not called to be evil,
violent, looking for trouble, but we have the right to defend ourselves.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matthew 5:44</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “But
I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 27pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">OUR ENEMIES ARE MANY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The battle for our minds</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Satan
wants to pervert the mind of man through;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Schools</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Music</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Books</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TV</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The battle for our family</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Satan
wants to destroy the traditional family because;</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God created them Male and Female</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marriage is symbolic of Christ and the
Church</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Broken families make broken people</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Broken people are easier to control by Satan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The battle for our church</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Revelation
warns of the deluge of false teaching that will flood the church.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">False
prophets, teachers, doctrine</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tares
among the wheat in congregations</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
falling away from sound teaching for the tickling of ears</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The battle for our city, state,
nation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ungodly
laws</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Legal
abortion (shedding of innocent blood)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 106:35-38</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
“they mingled with the nations And learned their works, 36 And served their
idols, Which became a snare to them. 37 They sacrificed their sons and their
daughters to the demons, 38 And they shed innocent blood, The blood of their
sons and their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the
land was polluted with the blood.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 106:40-43</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So the anger of Yahweh was kindled against His
people</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> And He abhorred His inheritance. </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">41 Then He gave them into the hand of the
nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 42
Their enemies </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">oppressed them</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, And
they were </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">subdued under their hand</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. 43
Many times He would deliver them; But they were rebellious in their counsel,
And so they sank down in their iniquity.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Proverbs 6:17-19</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
“There are six things which Yahweh hates, Even seven which are an abomination
to Him: 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
hands that shed innocent blood</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, 18 </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A heart that devises wicked thoughts, Feet that
hasten to run to evil,</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 19 A false witness who
breathes out lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We must lean on the Lord and His strength to remain
strong and turn the other cheek when that is an option.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When another person is the violent aggressor,
provoking us, if there is the opportunity to walk away, we are supposed to turn
the other cheek.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 4.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Robert A. Heinlein, a science fiction author
(Starship Troopers) and aeronautical engineer, said, <i>“An armed society is a
polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his
life.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 27pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WE MUST LEAN ON THE STRENGTH OF
THE LORD</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If God is for us, who can be
against us?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Romans 8:31</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 124:2</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “Had
it not been the Lord who was on our side When men rose up against us,”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Strength is needed to
withstand, resist</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes,
our battles consist of nothing more than withstanding and resisting.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Withstanding
and steadfast</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians 6</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
tells us multiple times to stand firm.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 Corinthians 15:58 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Therefore,
my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of
the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Philippians 1:27-28</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
“Only [p]live your lives in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that
whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear about your
circumstances, that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one [q]mind
contending together for the faith of the gospel, 28 in no way alarmed by your
opponents—”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 Corinthians 16:13 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Be
watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Resisting</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 Peter 5:8-11</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “Be
of sober spirit, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a
roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 But resist him, firm in the faith,
knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished among
your brethren who are in the world. 10 And after you have suffered for a little
while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ,
will Himself restore, strengthen, confirm, and ground you. 11 To Him be might
forever and ever. Amen.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">James 4:7 </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Submit
yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jude 1:9</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “But
when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the
body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but
said, “The Lord rebuke you.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Spiritual Battles grow us
spiritually.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just
as with any training, the more times you are successful, the more mature you
become.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When you were young, and your grandfather showed you
the trick of pulling of his thumb, you were probably amazed at his skill and
use of magic.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Later, you learn through paying close attention to
what was really happening that it was a trick and no longer held the same
mysticism it once did.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Satan's only weapon is lies. He lies to gain
followers. He lies to command them to do his evil. He lies to convince you that
you are weak, and you can do nothing to resist, rebuke, or withstand him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With each spiritual battle you win, the charade of
Satan’s true power is revealed, and you realize the true strength of Yahweh.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If even the angel Michael knew to call on the Name
of the Lord to rebuke Satan, then we see where the true power lay in the Name
of the Lord.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">James 1:2-4</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
“Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various temptations, 3
knowing that the testing of your faith brings about perseverance. 4 And let
perseverance have its perfect work, so that you may be mature and complete,
lacking in nothing.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We must
rely on the strength of the Lord!</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Next week: </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Full Armor of God Part 3: PUT ON THE ARMOR</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">SERMON
TIMELINE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Introduction</span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Today is Sunday. October 8<sup>th</sup>, 2023</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Last
week, we finished the Fruits of the Spirit series, talking about self-control.
This week, we are beginning a new series and will be looking at the Full Armor
of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
discussed </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Galatians 5</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
in the last series and how Paul tells us that Christ has set us free from the
yoke of slavery, speaking about our flesh, sin, and its desire to rule us. We
read in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Galatians 5</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
about how we are to walk in the spirit and rebuke the desires of the flesh so
we can serve the Lord.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jesus
tells us we cannot serve two masters, so we must walk and deny ourselves to
serve Him. We must “flee,” as the bible puts it, from the desires of the flesh
and focus on what the Spirit of God, which believers have within them desires.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Fruit of the Spirit is produced in believers who do not quench or resist the
spirit of God within them. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>These
fruits show the character of our God to others, which builds up other believers
so the Body of Christ can be stronger, and it attracts the lost to seek out the
gospel, which will redeem them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
long as you are not preventing the fruits, blocking them from being produced in
your life, they will be there and accomplish their goal.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This
naturally brings us to the following discussion about our “walking in the
spirit” and serving God as His followers. We know this is a fallen, sinful,
evil world, and each generation has an equal potential to work with God to lift
up or reject God and allow this world's fallen state to continue to degrade and
devour all that is good.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
are two significant things taking place right now. Firstly, the Great
Commission of </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Matthew 28</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
set the stage for the beginning of this dispensation of the church age, or the
age of Grace.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jesus
has tasked all of His followers to share the redeeming message of Christ Jesus,
baptism, and the teaching of obedience to those who belong to Him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
second thing is that a spiritual war began long before we were born and will
continue until the very last one who will ever accept Jesus Christ as Lord and
Savior does so. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
are soldiers in the Lord’s army. However, scripture clarifies that we do not
battle against flesh and blood but spiritual powers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our
Lord does not send us into battle without proper preparation, though. We are
equipped and fully prepared for spiritual service.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This
series will look at spiritual warfare, our attire and its purpose, how we
should focus our efforts, and what a win looks like in a spiritual war.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Today’s Topic: the Whole Armor of God –
INTRODUCTION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">SCRIPTURE READING <i>(Legacy Standard Bible) </i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The previous chapter encourages us to be
imitators of God as beloved children.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is what it means in scripture when it
says we are created in His image. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus said in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">John 4:24</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “God is spirit, and those who worship Him
must worship in spirit and truth.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If God is spirit, how is man “<i>created in
His image</i>”? Because what this refers to is not our outward appearance. Instead,
we were created to be the image of God. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To be an imager of God is why we receive the
Spirit of God when we are His and why we have the Fruits of the Spirit, so we
may have His character traits and be an image of who He is.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is what is meant by </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Ephesians 5:1</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved
children.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The rest of Ephesians speaks about what that
image is to look like. Then we reach </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Ephesians 6:10</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> and the good news about not going to war
naked and unprepared.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Ephesians
6:10-18</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10 “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in
the might of His strength. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you
will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">12 For our struggle is not against flesh and
blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world
forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the
heavenly places. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">13 Therefore, take up the full armor of God,
so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything,
to stand firm. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">14 Stand firm therefore, having girded your
loins with truth, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and having put on the breastplate of
righteousness, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">15 and having shod your feet with the preparation
of the gospel of peace. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">16 In addition to all, having taken up the
shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming
arrows of the evil one, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">17 also receive the helmet of salvation, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and the sword of the Spirit, which is the
word of God,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">18 praying at all times with all prayer and
petition in the Spirit, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and to this end, being on the alert with all
perseverance and petition for all the saints</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b></p>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;" />
</span></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">TODAY’S MESSAGE</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 27pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">I.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">WE ARE AT WAR</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The war is not against flesh</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
may sometimes feel we are at war with other people or countries</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Though
they may be servants of evil, they are the puppets</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our
battle is not with them but with their master</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Evil
in this world is a symptom. The root cause is the father of lies</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
is he and his demonic forces we are at war with</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The war is in the spiritual realm</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Ephesians</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
explicitly states these enemies are in the darkness, spiritual, and heavenly
places.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Think
about the wording in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Ephesians 6:12</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our
enemies are not flesh and blood</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They
are spiritual beings</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In
darkness</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
in heavenly places</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Where
are there </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">spiritual beings in darkness</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Jude 6</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
“And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper
abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the
great day,”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There are angels chained in the depths of
the abyss.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Where
are there spiritual beings in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">heavenly places</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">?<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
dimension where angels and demons reside<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">These
forces are at work.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They
are working to keep humankind under the Law so they will not escape the
punishment for their sin and be condemned to Gehenna, apart from God, for
eternity.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why
do they care?</span><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because
destroying humankind is the only way they can hurt the one true God<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So,
they work tirelessly to prevent them from accepting the New Covenant and
receiving forgiveness for sin.<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Who are our real enemies</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">{spiritual}
rulers</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">{spiritual}
authorities</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">world
forces of this darkness</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">spiritual
forces of wickedness</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">in
the heavenly places</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 27pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">II.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">WE MUST DONE OUR ARMOR</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The instruction to be imagers of God</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
were created to be images of God</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He
gives us His Spirit to accomplish this</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
we have the Spirit of God we receive when we are redeemed within us, we then
receive all the benefits of the Spirit of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Spiritual
Fruits</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Full
Armor of God</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Spiritual
Gifts</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
enables us to be the imagers of God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Imitators
of God</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">NOT
gods</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">NOT
little “g” gods</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">NOT
any other false doctrines about becoming gods</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vi.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But
as;</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Genesis 1:26</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our
likeness…” <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Ephesians 5:1</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <i>“Therefore be imitators of God, as </i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">beloved children</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>vii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Distinguishes
humankind from the animal and plant kingdoms. Elevates humankind above all
terrestrial created things to exercise benevolent and ethical stewardship over
creation. The “image of God” language is found in the New Testament as part of
the Christian’s responsibility to </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">imitate Christ</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
who is the image(r) of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Heiser,
M. S. (2016). Image of God. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R.
Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, L. Wentz, E. Ritzema, & W.
Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Lexham Press.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The encouragement of being strong</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">After
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Ephesians 5</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> encourages us to be imagers of God, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Ephesians 6:10</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> will tell us how God, through His Spirit,
will prepare us to do so. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Ephesians 6:10</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
tells us to be strong in the Lord and in the might of His strength. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It
then tells us about the Full Armor of God. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">His
strength, His armor, we can’t lose.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The foreshadowing of David and Goliath</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-indent: -1.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">1 Samuel 17:38-43</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> “Then Saul clothed David with his robes and put a bronze helmet on his
head, and he clothed him with armor. And David girded his sword over his armor
and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. So David said to Saul, “I cannot
go with these, for I have not tested them.” And David took them off. Then he
took his stick in his hand and chose for himself five smooth stones from the
brook and put them in the shepherd’s bag which he had, even in his pouch, and
his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine. Then the
Philistine came on and drew near to David, with the shield-bearer in front of
him. And the Philistine looked and saw David. And he despised him; for he was
but a youth and ruddy, with a handsome appearance. And the Philistine said to
David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed
David by his gods.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">David
had no need for the king's armor because He had God’s Full armor.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Satan’s
army (the Philistines), led by his most excellent soldier, came against God’s</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
battle was not David against Goliath. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It was a spiritual battle between Satan’s
army and God’s people. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A small boy with a stone defeated Satan’s
greatest warrior with weapons and a shield bearer. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because David was prepared for the correct
fight <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Not the flesh and blood but the spiritual</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">1 Samuel 17:51</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Then David ran and stood over the
Philistine and took his sword </span></i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Goliath’s) <i>and drew it out of its sheath and put him to death and cut
off his head with it. Then the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, so
they fled.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">III.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ARE
WE FIGHTING THE RIGHT BATTLES?<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Symptoms appear as enemies.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Just
like sickness or social issues or anything else</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Treating
symptoms while ignoring the cause is useless</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Wars
with nations fighting with people are the symptoms.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
are not at war with flesh and blood.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The root cause remains hidden.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Spiritual
warfare is the cause.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>ii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
battle was won spiritually, not because David defeated Goliath but because the
smallest boy of God’s army defeated the greatest warrior of Satan with a sling
and no worldly armor.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iii.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Satan
consistently underestimates the power of the Holy Spirit. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>iv.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Time
and time again in scripture, we see the Holy Spirit confounds Satan. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>v.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He
just doesn’t understand</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The battle we wage must be in the spiritual</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -9.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.25in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If
we concentrate our efforts on the spiritual, we will win</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">CONCLUSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As Christians, we need
to take </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Ephesians 6</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
to heart and learn what we can about our real enemy. The hidden one, who, like
a puppet master, puts things in our lives to confuse and distract us from the
real mission.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.3pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To be victorious in the
spiritual realm and be imitators of God in this realm.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And as great as the battle must seem, such
as David against the giant Goliath, all things are possible with God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">We must understand the Full Armor of God and
Use it!</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Next
week: </span></b></p>
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Full Armor of God Part 2: STRENGTH OF THE LORD</span></b></p>
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