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and you're receiving this message because you

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opted in to be encouraged. I'm thinking today

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of Ephesians 5 .17. It says, At this point in

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time, it would be kind of foolish to not be able

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to figure out what God wants from us. We can

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do what is taught to us by God's Holy Spirit

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in His Word. by his teachers and preachers, however

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he chooses to make us aware. The fact is, we

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can study the life of Jesus because the word

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says we should walk as he walked. If you want

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to get right down to it, the very bottom simplest

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thing to understand is what does God desire to

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do? What does God want to do? Everything that

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God has ever done from the very beginning until

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today and all the way into the distant future

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is to have a right relationship with mankind.

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And so your job is two part. One, to have a right

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relationship with God. That is accomplished through

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Jesus Christ, God's son, who was God in the flesh.

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Also, to bring others to a right relationship

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with God. That is accomplished by doing good

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works. and by especially explaining the gospel

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and not being ashamed of it, for in it is the

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power unto salvation. Let us be witnesses to

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the God of heaven. He is the ancient of days,

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the creator of all. Jesus is the king of old

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and the king for eternity. It would be rather

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silly of us to be in a place where we still don't

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know what it is that God wants us to do, wouldn't

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it? God bless you today as you serve him.