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We've all been hurt.

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We all carry scars.

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We can all overcome these things and be healed through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Let's build that relationship together right here.

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Welcome to Healing Scars with Pastor Burton.

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Hey everybody, welcome back to the sanctuary.

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So good to have you with us as always.

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And for those of you who are tuning in for the very first time, let me just say welcome.

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Now the past few months, really the last year, we've been learning about so much.

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And undoubtedly you notice that while there have been a lot of messages of hope, there

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is a lot in the series of things that we've been covering that have also been pretty dark.

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There's a lot of dark things in the Bible.

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So this week, as we continue to celebrate the great things God has blessed us with and

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we're going down that road towards Christmas, we're going to change things up a bit.

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We're going to change gears and we're going to spend some time in the book of Ephesians.

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Now this is one of the more upbeat books in the Bible.

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And when Paul wrote it, as we're going to see, it wasn't to deal with any issues that

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were arising in early church.

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It wasn't dealing with hypocrisy.

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It wasn't calling people out or anything like that.

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You know, it wasn't there as a tool of correction.

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Instead, this was written to strengthen and encourage and empower the church.

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And as we're going to see, it's also going to strengthen our faith by explaining the

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very nature of what the church is supposed to be as the body of Christ.

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All right, forgive me, I still have a little bit of a cough here.

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So I'm going to keep it mute here every time I cough.

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So if it seems like there's a long pause, that's usually what it is.

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I'm trying not to blow your ears out over here.

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So as we get started here, I'm going to ask a question.

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I'd like for everyone to just take a moment to reflect on it.

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What do you see when you go out into the world?

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What do you see when you go out into the world?

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Now I'm going to narrow this down a little bit.

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I'm talking about those places where people gather together.

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Work, school, sports, clubs, even in places of worship and beyond.

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Let's face it.

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People come in all types, all sorts, tall, small, big, dainty, some dressed to impress,

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others are looking for comfort, others are just working with what they got.

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And while we're all looking around, we're typically looking for people who look and

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sound like ourselves.

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The group that we fit in with.

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Now a lot of places, including places of worship, a lot of people, even pastors go wrong here

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because of their cookie cutter expectations.

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The fact of the matter is it comes natural.

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It does.

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It's natural.

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It's part of the human state, no matter how much you think you don't do this.

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This is something we all gravitate towards 100% each and every one of us.

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Now once you're aware of it, that's when you can work to try to change that.

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Now let's face it.

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It's a lot easier to talk to someone when you already know you have common ground.

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It really is.

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However as Paul is going to tell us as we go through this book, we need to take a look

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at ourselves and remove anything and everything that we use to separate us from other Christians.

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Because we can't continue to live in a broken house.

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It's time to unify and the only way to do it right is in Christ.

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So as we get in here, let me give you a good example.

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It sounds like, what do you mean break down the walls?

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I saw this in the military.

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I also saw this, as many of you know, I went to a military school.

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And one of the very first things I noticed that made it so much different than a regular

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school of course are the uniforms, the haircuts.

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We had certain standards.

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And you see the exact same thing in the military when you go to boot camp.

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You have your uniforms.

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Everybody is getting their hair cut a certain way.

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Everybody is shaving a certain way.

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Everybody is there for a certain purpose.

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So you can't just look at somebody and be like, you know what, I don't like them.

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Or, I don't know, they need to stay away from me.

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Or, I don't know, we're not going to get along.

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We're too different.

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Or anything like that.

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All the things that we look at are gone.

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So one thing I learned quickly, and those of us who have served have learned quickly,

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when somebody is in uniform and you're meeting them for the first time, other than the fact

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that they're in that uniform, you don't know anything else about them.

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So you have to actually talk to them to get to know them.

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And you build a relationship.

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Because sometimes those relationships are amazing and surprising.

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Very very surprising.

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So turn with me now before I go down any more rabbit trails.

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We're going to go to the book of Ephesians.

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If you're not sure where it's at, it's in your New Testament.

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And of course, I've already given a little bit of background.

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I'm going to give you a little more here.

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It was written by Paul right around 60 AD while he was in prison in Rome.

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And we can see more about that in Acts chapter 28.

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And its purpose again is directed at building up and maintaining the unity of the church.

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And as we'll see, Paul doesn't greet anyone specific here.

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This was a letter that was sent to the church in Ephesus and then circulated around throughout

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the area afterwards to other neighboring churches.

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And at this point, Paul, he'd been a Christian for right around 30 years.

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He'd been on missionary trips to include Ephesus.

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As a matter of fact, he'd been there for a couple of years.

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So he was well established.

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He was well known.

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He was respected.

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He was a point of authority within the church at this point.

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Now starting in verses one and two, the Bible says.

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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to God's holy people in Ephesus, the

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faithful in Christ Jesus.

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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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So again, he's not calling out anyone specific here.

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It's not like other books or other letters that we see in the Bible.

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Instead, what we do see is that it's addressed to the faithful.

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In other words, Christians, he's calling out a certain loyalty even, if you would.

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And we can see that this is being done as praise.

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He's given praise.

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He could have just elected it.

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God's holy people.

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And let's face it, that says a lot right there, right?

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But instead he goes on to call out the faithful, which is quite a distinction.

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It points to being a light in their communities.

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And we're no different.

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We're called to be the same.

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When people look at Christians, they should see that we live differently.

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We treat people differently.

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We act differently.

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We talk differently.

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Everything about us, we live differently in respect to how we go about our lives.

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We don't look down on people, but rather we're there to extend a hand and offer to pick them

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up and empower them to live better lives by knowing Jesus.

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They should be able to look at you.

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They should be able to look at me and see God's light in our lives.

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All right, continuing on now, verses three through six, the Bible says, praise be to

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the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms

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with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

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For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his

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sight.

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In love, he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ in accordance

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with his pleasure and will to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given

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us and the one he loves.

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Praise be.

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Praise be indeed.

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Starting everything by bringing praise to the father.

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This is always a good thing.

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We should always have God at the front and center of our lives.

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We don't praise him because of a position like kingship.

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Let's face it, he's much beyond that.

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Not only that, people have bent the knee to several rulers out of fear and threats of

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death, threats against their families and loved ones or property over the centuries.

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Instead, as Christians, we do it out of respect.

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We recognize that he's not just the creator, but we do it because of everything he's done

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in our lives.

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From our very being to the blessing since and to come.

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Literally, from our creation, our birth and everything in our lives and everything to

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come.

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And the fact that we have a relationship with Jesus, we know that we're adopted into God's

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family and forgiven of our various sins.

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It's important to note here where it says heavenly realms.

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This points to the fact that our blessings are not earthly, they're heavenly, meaning

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they come from the realm of God.

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And it's emphasized here when he talks about us being blameless in God's sight.

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This is showing that our salvation comes from on high.

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We know there is nothing we can do to earn it, nothing.

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There's no act, there are no words, there's no sacrifice we can offer, there is nothing

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that we can give to God in order to earn it.

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It is a gift, plain and simple, and it points directly to how loved we are as His children.

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We don't deserve it, yet we are saved by Him and in accordance with His plan and His

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will for us.

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God didn't have to accept us.

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However, in this sacrifice and the blood of Jesus Christ, we are blameless in His sight.

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He no longer sees our sin but Jesus in us.

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Which takes us to verse 5.

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Now, the word predestined is a word that a lot of people get hung up on, as if it meant

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that we were going to be Christians no matter what.

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It's not saying that, it's not saying that God's like, hey, you know what, I'm going

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to create these guys, these guys are going to be mine, and I'm going to make these guys,

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and well, we're just going to throw them in a pit later on.

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That was not the intention, and that's not what it's saying.

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What it's talking about is the fact that He knew that He would adopt us into His family

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once we accepted, or in other terms, once we chose to follow Jesus, and therefore the

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Father in our hearts.

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The fact that we know Jesus means that we know God because God's in Him.

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Again, it's because of Jesus' sacrifice, His covering of our sins in His very blood,

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that the Father doesn't see our sin.

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It's camouflaged, it's hidden, it's gone.

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It's covered by the blood of Jesus, it's wiped out.

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Now, note where it says adoption to sonship.

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I love this, I love this.

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Matter of fact, I would highlight or underline this, make some kind of a note even, maybe

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put a star next to it, I don't know.

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You see, in Greek, this is the legal term that refers to the full legal standing of

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an adopted male heir in Roman culture.

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You see, in Roman law, once someone was adopted, they were seen as accepted as if they had

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always been a blood relative.

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It didn't matter where they came from, they could have been a slave prior to being adopted.

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Once they were adopted, all of that was gone, all of their past was gone as a clean slate.

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They were a family member with all the rights, privileges, benefits that came with that.

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This phrasing is important to know because it's used to demonstrate the same thing that

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happens to each and every one of us when we become Christians, when we take on the blood

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of Christ.

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It's also important to remember when you hear someone say that we're all God's children,

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referring to everyone on earth, because as you now know, we're not.

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It's not until we come to know Jesus and begin following Him as Christians that we are adopted

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into God's family.

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Knowing this makes it a lot easier for each and every one of us to see not only how great

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it is for us as individuals, but how great it is for each and every person who's adopted

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into our family.

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This is why it's important that we are careful not to let walls build up and cliques to form

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that separate us from other Christians.

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We need to know our family.

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We need to know them.

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That's a blessing in itself.

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If you've ever been separated from any part of your family, you know how hard that is.

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And for those of you who haven't had to deal with that, that's a blessing in itself.

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Let's go back to our reading, Ephesians 1 verses 7 through 10.

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The Bible says, In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins

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in accordance with the riches of God's grace that He lavished on us.

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With all wisdom and understanding He made known to us the mystery of His will according

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to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ to be put into effect when the times

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reached their fulfillment to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.

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You know, it's hard to talk about Jesus without talking about His death.

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However, in doing so, we also get to talk about two of the greatest gifts that we've

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been blessed with.

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Redemption and forgiveness.

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So let's start with redemption.

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Redemption is the price paid for freedom.

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As we all know from John chapter 8 verse 36, the Bible says, Therefore if the Son makes

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you free, you shall be free indeed.

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That's redemption.

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And that payment is to free a slave.

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And let's face it, we were all slaves to sin before the Father set us free.

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All of us.

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Now I should remind you that in biblical times, slavery wasn't the same as the narrow scope,

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that small gauge that's used to look at it today.

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And let's face it, today it is a very, very narrow gauge.

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So back then, in those days, people would actually volunteer to be slaves for a number

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One of the most common was repaying debt.

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As a matter of fact, if we were to go back to Leviticus chapter 25 and look at verses

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44 through 54.

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So Leviticus 25 verses 44 through 54, we could see some of what the Bible has to say about

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owning slaves.

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Things about treating them fairly, granting them their freedom.

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Under Hebrew laws, slaves were treated differently than how they were in other countries.

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The point was, they weren't cattle.

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They weren't just property.

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They weren't just something to use and abuse.

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They weren't trophies or things to show off.

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They were humans.

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They were recognized.

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They were human beings.

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And they still needed to be treated with respect and with dignity.

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Even being allowed to participate in the various festivals and to rest during the Sabbath.

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And it's things like this.

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This is why it's so important that we actually study not only the Bible, but history to understand

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what really happened, what was going on, and not this garbage rhetoric that's being spun

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into a horrific tale that so many people take at face value these days.

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Let's face it, it's out there a lot.

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It's out there a lot.

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And that's what happens when uneducated people start spinning things.

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That's part of our society's downfall right there, isn't it?

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Because not only do we not try to educate, but we don't expect it.

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We don't encourage people to learn.

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That's not something we need to work on, isn't it?

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So it's important that we understand the whys and the hows that drove people and what made

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them go to these points that they were making these sacrifices for themselves and for their

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families.

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To a point you can almost look at it as a dentured servitude.

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Kind of like with certain positions, like, hey, you know what, you're going, we'll pay

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for this, and then once that's done, you agree to work for us for X amount of time, right?

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Very similar, very similar.

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Also puts Jesus' sacrifice for our redemption into that much more perspective as well, doesn't

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it?

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So with that said, let's take a look at forgiveness.

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Back in the days of the Old Testament, it was based on the shedding of an animal's blood.

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We can see this in various points of scripture, where it talks about the temples and all that

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kind of stuff.

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But more specifically, if we go to Leviticus chapter 17 verse 11, in which the Bible says,

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for the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement

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for yourselves on the altar.

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It is the blood that makes atonement for one's life.

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See, a sacrifice was a really big deal back then.

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It wasn't just a bloodletting.

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You know, for one, livestock was part of livelihood.

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It was part of your wealth.

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Even today, even today, having animals and caring for them, it's not cheap.

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Ask anyone that's ever had to take an animal to a veterinarian.

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To even make a vow in those days was tremendous.

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Tremendous.

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What would happen is they would take an animal and this animal would be torn in half.

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The person would walk around it and then through the halves to say, an outward proclamation

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even, saying that, if I don't honor my word, may I be ripped apart like this animal.

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It was nothing to take lightly.

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We're a far cry from that today, aren't we?

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Now thinking of that, thinking of how important the blood Jesus shed for us as a final and

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perfect sacrifice so that we could be free.

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Think of that importance to be bought and paid for in the blood of Jesus.

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That should have new meaning to everyone now knowing this.

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The blood of the Lamb.

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Praise the Lord for buying our freedom.

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Praise Jesus.

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We're paying for the very freedom that we don't deserve, yet he's granted it in his

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grace and in his mercy because he loves all of us that he saves.

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He loves everyone that he saves.

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These are gifts that only God can give to each and every one of us.

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Turning back to Ephesians 1 verses 11 through 14.

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Ephesians 1 verses 11 through 14.

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The Bible says, in him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan

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of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will and ordered that

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we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.

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And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel

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of your salvation, when you believed you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy

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Spirit who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's

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possession to the praise of his glory.

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Praise be.

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In choosing to become Christians and forming a relationship with Jesus, we gain everything.

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It's not a reward.

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We don't get a trophy.

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We don't earn things by doing this.

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Rather everything that he has for us is already being stored up for us.

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It's already ours.

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It's just waiting for the day that we join him in heaven.

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In the Sermon on the Mount, we go to Matthew 6 verses 19 through 21.

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Matthew 6 verses 19 through 21.

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Jesus said, Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin

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destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,

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where moths and vermin do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal.

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For where your treasure is, there your heart will also be.

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You see, we already have these things.

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It's when we turn our backs on them.

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When we turn our backs on God and we walk the way, when we're lost to the world.

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That's when we lost everything.

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Right?

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It wasn't even so much that we lost it.

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It's that we walked away from it.

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I like the story of the prodigal son, right?

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So in saying that we are also chosen, the word is also saying that we are heirs.

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So who are heirs?

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Well, family are.

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As much as I hate the word entitled, the very definition of an heir is a person who is legally

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entitled to property or rank of another.

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Alright?

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So we already have all these great things.

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They're stored up for us in heaven and we're heirs to everything as family of God.

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In addition to this, we see that we're marked with the seal.

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God has a plan.

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He's in control.

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And when we make that choice to follow him, we're sealed as his.

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Now, I know some of you are wondering, what's the seal?

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Well, the Bible just told us it's the Holy Spirit.

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In giving us the Holy Spirit, God confirms that we are his.

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Because only Christians, we're the only ones that have the Holy Spirit within us, right?

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Think of it this way.

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Think of the old days of royalty.

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They had a decree or a letter or something that they were sending out or orders to the

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military, whatever.

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They had to have a way to make sure that they knew who it was coming from.

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So what did they do?

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They'd warm some wax, they'd pour a little bit of other document, and then that person,

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usually like the king, would press down on it with the royal seal, which typically was

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held in a ring that they would wear, right?

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Sometimes there's another marker that would have that crest that they would use, but typically

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it was in a ring.

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And they'd press down on it and it would seal it and leave that little press on there.

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And it was a marker that only that person or that family bore.

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And the Holy Spirit, that's God's way of doing the same with us.

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That's his marker.

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And people can see when his light is within you.

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And people should see when his light is within you.

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That's his seal.

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Moving along.

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So Ephesians 1 verses 15 through 17.

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The Bible says, For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus

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and your love for all God's people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you.

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Remembering you in my prayers, I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the

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glorious Father, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you may know

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Him better.

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How awesome is that?

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How awesome is this prayer?

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Paul's literally praying that everyone gets to know God.

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And not only that, but for those who know him to grow in a better relationship with

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him.

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He's praying for all of our relationships with the Father.

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It's another blessing for sure.

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Now how does this happen?

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Does it happen by listening to someone talk about God or simply reading the Bible?

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You know, hearing a sermon?

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Well, yes and no.

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So let's bring it into our society, for instance, right?

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Take us whole lebrity.

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Now you can listen to their interviews.

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You can read all about them.

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Let's face it, the paparazzi does a good job of making sure you know what's going on in

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everyone's daily life these days, don't they?

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But even with that, watching all these things, hearing all these things, reading all these

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things, does that mean that you know them?

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No.

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You read their biography, doesn't mean that you know them.

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Not in the slightest.

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It actually kind of drives me nuts because you know, when a celebrity comes around, they

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helped me out when I was in a dark place.

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Really?

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Did they?

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Did they?

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You know, it's like because you don't know them.

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In order to know someone, you need to talk to them.

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You need to talk to them in order to get to know them.

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You need that with any relationship.

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Hearing about them is one thing.

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Talking to them and having a relationship with them is different.

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It's the whole do you know God or do you know of God, right?

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Coming to know God is no different.

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You can hear a sermon, you can hear someone give their testimony, you can read books,

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and these are all great ways to learn about God.

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And the Bible is the best way to learn about God.

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However, each and every one of us needs to take the time to actually talk to Him.

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That's what prayer is.

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Remember, I've talked about this before.

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We're not just chanting little things, you know, or little ditties or little rhymes or

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any of that kind of stuff.

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Prayer is the time that we take to actually talk to God.

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It's a blessing that we have that we can go directly to Him in prayer.

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And the more you do this, the better your relationship will be with Him.

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You should be talking about the good, the bad, the ugly, the in-between, the insecurities,

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everything.

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It's like, hey, you know, I got this going on.

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I think this is the way I'm going to go, but I'm just not sure, you know, all that kind

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of stuff.

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Yeah, God knows, but He wants to hear it from us.

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That's part of having a relationship.

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He didn't create us to talk about Him.

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He created us to talk to Him, right?

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Would you rather have friends that talk to you or about you?

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I don't know about you.

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I'd rather have friends that talk to me.

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That's what friendship is, right?

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That's what a relationship is.

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Same with family.

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You want family that talks about you or family that talks to you.

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If all they do is talk about you, that's not much family, is it?

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All right, we're in the homestretch here, people.

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I promise.

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So moving into Ephesians 1, verses 18 through 21.

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So verses 18 through 21, the Bible says, I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened

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in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you.

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The riches of His glorious inheritance and His holy people and His incomparably great

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power for us who believe.

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That power is the same as the mighty strength He exerted when He raised Christ from the

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dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms.

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Far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked.

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Not only in the present age, but in the one to come.

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Paul's prayer here is for everyone's heart to be opened to just how great God is and

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what awaits us in heaven.

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It's not a promise of a great life here on earth.

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It's not that promise of a great life now.

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That whole name and claim it, oh, you want it?

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Just reach out and claim it.

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No, that's bogus.

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That's false doctrine.

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That's not what it is.

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What it is a promise of is a wonderful future when we are together with Him in heaven.

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Bible tells us life's going to be anything but easy.

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However, when the Father calls us home, that's a different story.

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Think about it.

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People watch athletes, they watch athletic feats and all, mechanical feats that continually

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push the limits of our known understanding of how things work.

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They're amazing, right?

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Just 50 years ago, heck 40 years ago, we still had rooms that were filled with equipment,

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filled top to bottom, these huge rooms just to do simple computing on the most basic level.

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And now we have a computer more than 100 times greater along with the camera and so many

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other features in our phones that we carry around wirelessly in our pockets and bags,

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right?

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We get excited about these things.

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And think about it.

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We watch videos on all these different services and stuff and it's like, whoa, check this

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out, right?

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Paul is reminding us that as great as these marvels we see are, they pale in comparison

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to how great our God is.

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They pale in comparison to the one who created everything down to the minute details that

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we still cannot even imagine and haven't even discovered.

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And yet he's given us hope that we'll be right there alongside him one day.

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Ephesians 1, 22 and 23.

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The Bible says, and God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head

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over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything

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in every way.

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It's a fullness that comes from Jesus filling the church, the church being us, his people.

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And he fills us with his gifts and his blessings.

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Jesus is the head of the body, right?

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And each of us are the body.

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All of us are following.

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We're all parts of the body.

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Think about it this way.

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The body can't live without a head, right?

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Cut the head off, what happens?

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It's done.

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It's gone.

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Even just the brain, right?

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And I know it seems like some people challenge that statement regularly, right?

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However, I'm talking about the literal sense.

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If the brain dies, so does the body.

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Yeah, sure.

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We have all these little gizmos and stuff that can sustain it temporarily.

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But once that plug is pulled, that body is done for without the brain, without the head

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telling it what to do, right?

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We're no different without Jesus.

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Without Jesus, we're dead.

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Without His direction, we flounder and we die.

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Coming back to where we started today, this is also why it's important that we connect

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with our Christian brothers and sisters.

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Everyone serves a purpose, none of them being the same.

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The right foot might be similar to the left, but it's still different.

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It still operates independently.

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Same with the hands.

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The lungs serve a completely different purpose from the kidneys, and so on.

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But they're also important, right?

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Lose one of those things and see how it changes your life.

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And that's the blessing of the Church.

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When we remove the cliques and we come together with Jesus at the head, we form something

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absolutely amazing.

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It's tremendous.

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And as we're seeing in the season of Thanksgiving and good tidings moving towards Christmas,

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these are all things for us to keep in mind, which is why when we reach out to people that

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would normally be ignored and brushed aside, when we reach out, we show them love.

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We get to know them.

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See the human.

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Think back to what I was saying earlier about slaves.

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They weren't just cattle.

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They were human beings.

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And that's how we need to see others as well.

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We've already encountered the greatest love in our lives in Jesus.

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And it's important, so important, that we break the barriers within our own buildings.

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That we dissolve the cliques and reach out to our neighbors.

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And that we share that love of Jesus with others so that they can come to know Him as

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well.

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We all have so much to be thankful for.

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Let's make sure others know that they do as well.

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Remember, you are loved and you are a blessing.

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Now go and be the church.

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Thank you all for joining us here today at Healing Scars with Pastor Burton.

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Please like, subscribe, and share our podcast on any platform it is that you tune into us

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If you do have any questions, any prayer requests, or would like to know more about our ministry,

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We look forward to hearing from you all.

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God bless.