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Have you ever wanted to be a trust fund baby?

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When Eric and I, my husband, we were in our early married years, we had a friend who was

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a trust fund baby and you know, just seemed like everything was a little easier for them.

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They could buy a great house and a great area and it just sounded like a really great thing.

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Well, I'm excited because we are going to embark on a new series in which we're going

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to explore some of the depths of the trust fund that we've been given access to and

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you may not even realize it because if we did, and let me say when we do, it should

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absolutely transform the way we live.

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Hey, welcome to 1224 by Worship Transforms where we want to empower you to live your

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best life through biblical inspiration, through connecting with Jesus in at least 12 minutes

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of meditative worship.

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All right.

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Why 12 minutes?

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Well research has shown that meditating on a good God that parts really important for

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at least 12 minutes at a time and especially when connected with music has the ability

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to create new healthy neural pathways in our brains.

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That's new ways of healthy thinking that align with the one that we're focusing on.

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So as I mentioned, we're starting this whole new series and on what it means that we've

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been given an inheritance and what the heck that even is anyway.

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Yeah.

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So Romans 8 17 says this and this is from the amplified version.

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And if we are his children, then we are his heirs also heirs of God and fellow heirs with

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Christ sharing his spiritual blessing and inheritance.

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If indeed we share in his suffering so that we may also share in his glory.

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Well as children of God, we're entitled to an inheritance, not because of anything that

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we've done, but because simply because we're his children.

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My husband's parents passed away not too long ago and before they did, they had set up a

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modest inheritance for each of their children, not because they did anything so wonderful,

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although they were really great kids, but because they were offspring, whether biological,

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there's two biological sisters and then my husband who was adopted and they wanted to

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pass on some of what they had accumulated in their life, some of what they had just simply

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to bless them and it was a blessing.

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But an inheritance is naturally predicated on the giver passing away.

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The giver must first die and after the one who's giving it passes that inheritance also

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then passes on to the next generation.

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Once that inheritance is given in stages depending on what it is and the age of the one receiving

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the inheritance and the state of the property.

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Well similarly, God has granted us, his children, by adoption, an inheritance and the only way

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that we could have access to that inheritance was for death to take place.

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Jesus, very God, became flesh.

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He lived among us.

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He died and then he was resurrected to new life.

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That death unlocked possible inheritance made available for all humanity, but the only ones

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who'd be able to access it are those who can successfully submit a claim.

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You know like when you believe you have a claim to an inheritance, you've got to prove

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that it's supposed to be yours.

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And it's when we identify with his death by turning away from our sinful nature and letting

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it be put to death by associating with him.

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And instead turning toward new life and resurrection and in so doing, we're given the right to

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be called the children of God.

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Wow.

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This is a living inheritance.

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Part of it we have immediate access to.

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Some of it's being stored up for us in heaven to be revealed at a future stage, both in

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heaven and in the new earth.

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An inheritance, think about this, an inheritance is something that once belonged to someone,

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right?

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And it gets passed on after they die.

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In this case, we're being given something that actually belongs to God, things that

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have also been granted to Jesus and we get them because we've been united with him.

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I believe that there's so much more that often goes untapped that we actually have access

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to right now as our inheritance.

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But in order to receive what's been granted to us, well, we want to understand what it

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is that's in our inheritance.

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Look, maybe I was given an entire storehouse, an entire warehouse of cars.

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But if I didn't ever look in the storehouse, it wouldn't do me a whole lot of good.

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And let's say I knew that they were in there, but I never picked up the keys so I could

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drive those cars or maybe I never even learned how to drive.

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Well, those cars wouldn't do me any good.

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I might as well just take the public bus everywhere because I have an entire garage full of powerful

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vehicles that are at my disposal, but I have no idea how to use them.

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And I might even complain about my inability to get around.

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That's what so many of us do, right?

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We've been granted this incredible inheritance, but we don't even know what it is.

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Or maybe we have a little inclination, but we don't know how to drive.

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And we say, well, that's ridiculous because if I was given a whole warehouse full of cars,

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you better believe that I would learn how to drive.

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Well, then we better find out what's in our inheritance so we can fully, fully enjoy it.

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I know that if it were my husband who had received a whole warehouse full of cars, you

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better believe he would know how to drive every single.

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One of them every, like a different one every day of the week.

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Yet, not exploring the riches of what God has bestowed on each of us is all too often

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what we settle into metaphorically taking that public bus and learning strategies to

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get around to accommodate the fact that we don't have any ride, let alone a sweet one.

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So I'm excited.

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We're not going to do that.

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We're going to explore what's actually in our inheritance, what we've been granted

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in the written will, in the written testament of our Father through His Son, our brother,

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our friend, our Lord, our Redeemer, Jesus.

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This is a living will.

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It's not an ancient, lifeless text.

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So if there's something within you that's been crying out for more, if you've been feeling

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maybe beat down, maybe on the verge of giving up or giving in and you need to experience

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His healing touch, if you know you've been created for more, if you feel a call on your

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life, you don't know how to realize it.

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If you have a burden, a yearning to see true justice in your life and in the lives of those

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around you.

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If you recognize the days are short and there's an urgency to make the most of what we've

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been given.

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Stay with us.

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Join us for the next several sessions as we unpack what we've been given one by one and

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then we let the truth of what those things are infiltrate and permeate our souls by meditating

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on them, by resting in them.

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And that way it gets into our psyche and it's the truth of what just hearing alone has trouble

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doing.

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We can be transformed more like how we're meant to be.

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So yeah, I've always wanted to be a trust foam baby and now I am.

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You and I both have everything that we need to live a wealthy and prosperous life.

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Hey, if you think you know maybe one or two of those things that we've been granted as

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inheritance, would you put it in the comments below?

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I'd love to hear what you think those are.

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Maybe there's a couple that you want to make sure we dive into.

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Again, let me know in the comments because we are going to be diving into this.

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Today, we're going to be meditating on Ephesians 111, Romans 8.17 and Psalm 16.5 and 6.

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You might want to grab your Bible so you can follow along as we meditate on this, as we

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reflect, as we sing, as we let the truth of this word go deep within us.

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We thank you for this opportunity to dive into understanding a little bit better what

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you have given us.

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Holy Spirit, we just invite you to come, invade us with your presence right now, reveal

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to us the truth so we don't miss what you have granted to each one of us.

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Jesus, he loves me so much.

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Lord, You alone are my inheritance.

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Lord, You alone are my inheritance.

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My cup of blessing You are.

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My cup it overflows.

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My cup of blessing You are.

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I drink from the will.

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And it never, no it never, no it never runs dry.

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No it never, no it never, no it never runs dry.

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For You watch over all I have.

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Everything You have given me.

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You watch over all I am.

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I have all I need.

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And it never, no it never, no it never runs out.

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No it never, no it never, no it never runs out.

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What a wonderful inheritance.

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And it never, no it never runs out.

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For You watch over all I have.

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Everything You have given me.

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And You watch over all I am.

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I have all I need.

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And it never, no it never, no it never runs out.

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No it never, no it never, no it never runs out.

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What a wonderful inheritance.

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And there's always, always more.

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Cause I am adopted. I am a child of the living God, my Father.

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I am adopted. I am an heir.

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I've been united with the living God, my Savior.

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Jesus Christ.

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For He chose me in advance.

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And He makes everything work out according to His plan.

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What a wonderful inheritance.

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What a wonderful inheritance.

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And there's always, always more.

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You alone are my inheritance.

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For the land You have given is lovely.

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Every boundary, the place You have prepared for me.

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Is beautiful.

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And I'll never, no I'll never, no I'll never be without.

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No I'll never, no I'll never, no I'll never be without You.

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I'll never be without You.

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What a wonderful inheritance.

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What a wonderful inheritance.

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And there's always, always more.

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Always more, more with You. Cause You're never on dry.

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You're never on out.

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Cause I am adopted.

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I am a child of the living God, my Father.

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I am adopted.

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I am an heir.

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I am united with the living God, my Savior.

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Jesus Christ.

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For He chose me in advance. And He makes everything work out according to His plan.

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What a wonderful inheritance.

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What a wonderful plan You had that I could be Your child.

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That I could be called Your heir.

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Father, we're so in awe of Your plan.

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That You made a way that we could be together with You forever.

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That You made a way that we could be called a child of God.

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That we could be united with Jesus, Your Son. It's astounding.

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Help that to penetrate every fiber of our being.

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So we live out of a place of being Your child.

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So we live out of a place of being called the heirs of God.

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Simply amazing.

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May you go in the goodness of knowing how much God loves you today.

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Cause I am adopted.

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I am the child of the living God, my Father.

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I am adopted.

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I am an heir.

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I am united with the living God, my Savior.

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Jesus Christ.

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What a wonderful inheritance.

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What a wonderful inheritance.

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What a wonderful inheritance.

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And there's always more.

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I love you, Jesus.