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Welcome back to our study of the book of Hebrews. We started chapter 2 last week and talked about one of the reasons why we shouldn’t neglect the salvation God has accomplished through Jesus. Because He is the Son of God and therefore has authority and preeminence over all creation, it is imperative that we heed His word lest we come under God’s discipline. Verses 5 through 9 give additional reasons why the people of God must not neglect this great salvation.
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hello good morning and uh welcome back
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to our study of the book of hebrews
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and we are started on chapter two last
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week and we're going to continue with
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verses five through nine today
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last week we looked at verses one
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through four and then i'll give you a
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synopsis
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of what we talked about and then we're
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gonna go and and talk about verses five
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through nine but before i do that i just
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wanna make a quick um
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announcement i may just take a break
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from hebrews
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i or actually doing this uh study uh
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after today
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because i feel a little bit overwhelmed
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with all kind of stuff and
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i don't know for some reason there is a
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sense in which
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i have like this is i'm almost like a
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flat you know like
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almost like on an empty i don't i just
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don't have
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any desire to do a lot of things so i
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may just take a break to to kind of just
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uh
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spend some time with the lord just the
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lord and and know
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you know and then just do that and then
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maybe i'll get back to doing more
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hebrews because i i do believe that i'm
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kind of just flat
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right now and i don't just want to do
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stuff because i feel like this is my
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duty
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i just want to be able to serve because
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um
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god is the one that's working in me
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because the scripture says somewhere
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that we need the rest of god the rest of
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god consists of
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us being the vessels of his youth in the
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sense that
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when when we are doing something it is
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god works in us to both to will and act
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according to his purpose
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god god creates what he commands
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what the enemy just expects and what he
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demands that's the difference so when
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god wants you to do something
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oftentimes i believe he gives you the
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desire and he empowers you to do so
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at this point i feel a little bit flat
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so after today i think
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i'm going to take uh i sit back the
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backseat and just kind of sit out for a
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little bit okay
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so let me give you a quick uh synopsis
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of uh chapter two
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versus one through four and then we're
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gonna go into verses five through nine
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so last week we talked about the reasons
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why
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we should not neglect and the great
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salvation which
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we've received through jesus christ work
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on the cross
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and we talk about because he's the son
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of god and because he has authority
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and preeminence over all creation it is
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imperative that we heed
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his word lest we come under god's
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discipline
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and then in chapter and verses one
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through four we saw that even though the
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angels have a
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lower um in terms of um
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comparing them to jesus jesus is greater
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than the angels we saw in chapter one
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jesus is greater than the prophets so if
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the words of the angels
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which they brought to mount sinai were
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binding and every transgression
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and disobedience received a just
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retribution how much more will god
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treat us if we look at what his son has
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done
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with contempt i mean this is a greater
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discipline so we
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we say that it is important it is
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imperative that we
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pay attention to what we've heard or we
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will drift away from it and that's not
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a good place to be because as god's
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children he is going to discipline us
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so that's what we talked about in
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chapter one and then today we're going
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to continue with verses five to now
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through nine and the the writer is gonna
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give us more reasons why
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we should not neglect this great
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salvation
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which jesus did and worked
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for us okay so let's go and i'm gonna
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read verses five
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through nine so
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the scripture says for it was not to
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angels
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that god subjected the world to come
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of which we are speaking it has been
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testified somewhere
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what is meant that you are mindful of
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him or the son of man
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that you care for him you made him for a
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little while
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lower than the angels you have crowned
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him with glory and honor
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putting everything in subjecting in
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subjection
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under his feet now in putting everything
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in subjection to him
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he left nothing outside his control
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at present we do not see yet everything
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in subjection to man
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but we see him who for a little while
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was made lower than the angels namely
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jesus
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crown with glory and honor because of
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the suffering
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of death so that by the grace of god he
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might
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taste death for everyone
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so what does all that mean that's what
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we're going to be talking about today so
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we're gonna take it one verse at a time
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and we're gonna unpack what all this
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means so in verse five we are told
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for it was not to angels that god
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subjected the world to come of which we
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are speaking
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and he has been testified somewhere and
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then we're going to stop and then
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unpack this so there's going to be a
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world that's going to come
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god is going to create a new heaven and
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a new earth that's going to happen
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it's now if it's going to happen is when
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it happens
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that's when jesus comes back on earth
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okay
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so basically the writer is saying listen
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the salvation which
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god has worked through jesus is not just
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one fault there are many
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layers to it so don't neglect this great
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salvation because there are many more
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things about the salvation
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that you guys don't know about yet and
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that's what the author is going to tell
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us today
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and this is the reason he's saying the
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world that is to come
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will not be subjected to angels as great
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as they are
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like angels are great but verses 6 and 7
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tell us who will be in charge and we're
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going to see that in a minute
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so we cannot have a limited
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view of the work of christ on the cross
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okay he attorned for the sins of the
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world
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and restored mankind fellowship with god
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but that's not the only thing that jesus
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did
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the salvation of god extends further
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than that and that's what the author is
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trying to tell his readers
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and he's saying we're going to look at
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verses 6 through 8. he's going to give
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them the reasons why
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listen to what verses 6 and 8 say
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through it
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it has been testified somewhere what is
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mean
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that you are mindful of him or the son
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of man that you care for him
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you made him for a little while lower
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than the angels you have crowned him
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with glory and honor
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putting everything in subjection under
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his feet now in putting everything in
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subjection to him
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he left nothing outside his control
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at present we do not yet see everything
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in subjection to him and then we're
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gonna stop here and then don't practice
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so basically what are we told here so
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verses
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verses 6 through 8 tell us that the
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world to come
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will be subjected to mankind man or
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mankind
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like us humans okay and this is a direct
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quotation from
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psalm 8 verse 4 through 6 which we're
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going to read in a second
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actually i just read it to you so let me
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just read the entire psalm psalm 8
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verses 1
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through 9. let's listen to what david
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says oh lord
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our lord how majestic is your name in
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all the earth
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you have set your glory above the
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heavens out of the mouth of babies and
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infants you have established
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strength because of your force to steal
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the enemy and the avenger when i look at
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your heavens
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the work of your fingers the moon and
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the stars which you have set in place
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what is men that you are mindful of him
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and the son of man that you care for him
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yet you have made him a little lower
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than the heavenly beings
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and crowned him with glory and honor
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you have given him dominion over the
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works of your hands
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you have put all things under his feet
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all sheep and oxen and also the beast
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of the field the birds of the heavens
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and the fish of the sea
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whatever passes along the paths of the
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sea
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oh lord our lord how majestic is your
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name
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in all the earth so basically
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uh the writer of hebrews is quoting
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david
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okay and david when he was writing this
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psalm
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he saw from afar what god was going to
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accomplish through jesus
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he also saw that god has bestowed upon
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mankind
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such a great um i would say what
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uh he made them he made mankind steward
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of all his creation and we're going to
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read that in genesis 1
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verse 26 to 31 before actually on
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practice a little more listen to what
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the scripture says in genesis 1 verse 26
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to 31 and this is what david saw
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then god said let us make man in our
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image
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after our likeness and let them have
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dominion
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over the fish of the sea and over the
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birds of the heavens and over the
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livestock and over
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all the earth and over every creeping
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thing that creeps on the earth so god
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created man in his own image
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in the image of god he created him male
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and female he created them
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and god blessed them and god said to
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them be fruitful
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and multiply and fill the earth and
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subdue it
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subdue it and have dominion over the
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fish of the sea
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and over the birds of the heavens and
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over every
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living thing that moves on the earth
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and behold god said and god said behold
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i have given you
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every plant yielding seed that is on the
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face of all the earth
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and every tree with seed and its fruit
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you shall have them for food and to
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every beast of the earth and to every
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bird of the heavens
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and to everything that creeps on the
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earth everything that has the breath of
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life i have given
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every green plant food for food
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and he was so and god saw everything
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that he had made and behold
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he was very good and there was evening
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and there was morning the sixth day so
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david saw that
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david saw when he was writing the song
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he understood that man in creation
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was lower or inferior to the angels okay
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and we can see that in terms of our
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abilities and just have supernatural
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abilities and we don't have those
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okay they are powerful beings they are
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very powerful and we
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we can't compare the angels in terms of
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that kind
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of power okay they they are supernatural
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beings they have
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they do things that we can't do okay and
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they cannot die
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but here's the thing that david saw even
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with all that god has given
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man or mankind or mankind a greater
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privilege
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than the angel okay we have been made
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steward
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of all that god has created
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as we saw in genesis 1 verse 26 to 31
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see angels may have all this power and
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they are created to serve actually
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those who will inherit salvation us but
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we have been given
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a greater privilege a greater privilege
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we have
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god says subdue everything i've given
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you everything
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okay but here's what happened when sin
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entered the world everything was was
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disrupted
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but god is going to restore all things
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including his mandate to mankind which
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is having dominion over all he has
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created
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god is going to do that so we were
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created in his image
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this is important we were created in the
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image of god
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in order that we might reflect him to
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his creation
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so he has created us in his image so
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that we can reflect
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him to the created um
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order okay so whose images are new is
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the question
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is god's image on you is god's image on
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you are you
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reflecting the glory of god are you
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reflecting the character of god are you
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a reflection of his image and that's why
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god has given us this mandate
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so creation shall see the image of god
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through you
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and through me okay this is why we've
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been given dominion over his works
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but there is a problem and and the
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writer of hebrew sees that
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right now it seems as if man is actually
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subject to all kinds of sufferings okay
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we die
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okay we get sick we suffer
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there is pain there is suffering we fail
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there is
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fear there is despair there is
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hopelessness
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there is all kind of stuff even with
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advanced in in in the medical field
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even with all these things that have
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happened we still suffer we still die
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we still have pain we still lose loved
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ones
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and it seems as if we have no dominion
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over
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all god's creation people get killed by
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animals
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people get dominated by things it just
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seems as if god's promise has failed
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okay and that that's what makes makes us
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think well
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god said that we should have dominion
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but it doesn't seem as if we have
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dominion right now
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because everything seems as if it is the
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other way around
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like we are being dominated by
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everything around us life is dominating
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us
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pain is dominating fear is dominating
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death is dominating sickness
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hopelessness
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and this is what it seems as if this is
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what's going on now it seems to say we
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don't have that dominion
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but verse 9 solves that problem
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and this is important to see that listen
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to how he starts
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verse 9 but we see
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him who's that him jesus
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we see him who for a little while was
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made
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lower than the angels namely jesus
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crowned with glory and honor because of
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the suffering of death so that by the
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grace of god he might taste
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death for everyone now
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we lost uh the dominion
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we lost demanded that god has given us
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because of adam and eve
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okay so jesus by taking on a human
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nature
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came to restore that which we lost
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because of adam and eve and their
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failure to obey
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the word of god they didn't obey god
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and we read in romans 8 verse 20 to 21
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to 21 let's listen to what roman says
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listen to the scripture for the creation
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was subjected to futility
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not willingly but because of him we
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subjected it
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in hope that the creation itself will be
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set free
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from its bondage to corruption and
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obtain the freedom of the glory of the
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children of
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god so jesus came to restore that which
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was lost because of the sin
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of adam and eve and god glorified
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jesus in his humanity and that's
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important
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god glorified jesus humanely because of
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his suffering
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of on the cross and we mentioned that in
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chapter one
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scripture says after making purification
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for sins he sat down at the right hand
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of god
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and he was given in his humanity the
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name that is above
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every name the name son okay
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and we talked about the time of his
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begetting in chapter one
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when he when jesus rose from the dead he
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proved and he authenticated him
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as the son of god now when jesus
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actually
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lived on planet earth he showed that he
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had dominion over all things
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because the winds obey him he defeated
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what the diseases
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the the blind see what the death here
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and those that were diseased regain
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their function the functionality of
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their
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their broken members okay and they were
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he walked on water so he the fish obeyed
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him remember when
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peter went fishing he couldn't catch any
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fish and then god told him
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uh throw the nets on the right side and
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he when he caught all his fish
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so god was shown through jesus that i am
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going to restore this mandate because
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jesus is going to do that he did that on
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the cross when he died
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by the grace of god he tasted death on
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our behalf he experienced
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death he was separated from god on the
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cross because
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the sins of the whole world was poured
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upon him and he said what did he say
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before he died
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he said father abba lama sabachthani
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why have you forsaken me because at that
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moment
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all the wrath of god was poured upon
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jesus and because of his suffering of
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death because he
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became obedient even obedient to death
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on the cross god has given
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jesus the name that is above every name
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the name
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son the name lord okay the name that is
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above every name
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god has given him that title the name
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lord adonai
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are curious if you want to use the greek
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word i think
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so when the sins of the whole world were
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poured upon jesus
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this is what he said why have you
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forsaken me and at that very moment the
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wrath of god
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was poured upon jesus he being the lamb
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of god
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he satisfied the wrath of god and god
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accepted his sacrifice and god did what
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he raised him from the dead
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to show that yes i've accepted it so the
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resurrection of christ
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proved that god was pleased with what
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jesus did
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and because he was pleased with him
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death could not have any hold on him
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because he did exactly what god
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had asked him to do he said somewhere my
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food is to do the will of him who sent
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me
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so because jesus did that now the
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mandate that god has given in the
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beginning in genesis
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is going to be restored and at some
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point at some point
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we will reign with jesus we will serve
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him we will reign with him and we're
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gonna see that in ephesians but let's
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keep going
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i'm not done yet so what are the
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implications of verse nine
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verse nine is basically telling us that
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god is now putting
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all jesus enemies under his feet and at
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the last
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trumpet when his final enemy is defeated
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we likewise shall reign with jesus
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he is the one that has made it possible
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for us it's not that we did it
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but jesus made it possible okay
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by becoming a man he came to intercede
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for us he came to restore that which was
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lost
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so right now things may look desperate i
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mean i'm struggling right now
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there is struggle there is pain there is
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tiredness there is just sometimes
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despair
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but even in in all those situations we
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are more than conquerors because we know
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that this is not the end
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we know that someday somehow because god
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promised them because jesus defeated the
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enemy
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we will be restored again and we will
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reign with jesus
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this is this is the kind of stuff that
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gives you hope
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okay because jesus gained the victory
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and god is faithful and we know that
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all things are going to end according to
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god's word so we should rejoice in that
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so then when we struggle
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there should be a sense in which we
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rejoice because we know that this is not
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the end
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this is the end okay so
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i want to end this by looking at
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ephesians uh chapter two
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and i wanna read on the following verse
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this is what the scripture says in
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ephesians two verse one through uh ten i
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wanna read the entire uh
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portion and you were dead in your
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trespasses and sin
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in which you once walked following the
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course of this world
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following the prince of the power of the
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air the spirit that is not
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work in the sons of disobedience among
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whom
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we all once lived in the passions of our
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flesh
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carrying out the desires of the body and
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the mind and whereby nature
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children of wrath like the rest of
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mankind
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but god but
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god being rich in mercy
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because of the great love
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with which he loved us even when we were
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dead in our trespasses
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made us alive together with
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christ by grace you have been saved
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and raised us up with him and seated
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us with him in the heavenly places
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in christ jesus you see that he seated
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us with jesus in the heavenly places
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so that in the coming ages he might show
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the immeasurable riches of his grace in
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his and in kindness
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toward us in christ jesus this is why
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god did this
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that he might show the immeasurable
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immeasurable
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riches of his grace in in kindness
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toward us in christ
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jesus for by grace you have been saved
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through faith and this is not your own
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doing
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it is the gift of god not a result of
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work so that no one may boast
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for we are his workmanship created in
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christ
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jesus for good works which god prepared
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beforehand
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that we should walk in them so in
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hebrews chapter 2 verse 5
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through 9 we learn that the reason why
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we should really
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not neglect this great salvation is
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because of
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what is to come because somewhere
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somehow we will
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reign with jesus there is more work to
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be done
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so we should be looking forward to that
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to the place where we're going to when
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he comes
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back at the last trumpet that we would
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be with him we will reign and we will
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rule the world with jesus
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okay the scripture says somewhere
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blessed are they meek for they shall
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inherit the earth
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we will one day have dominion because
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jesus
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has showed it by his life and by his
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death on the cross he restored that
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broken fellowship so
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one day we will reign with christ so the
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salvation is like
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there's so many layers to this salvation
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and we should not just look at now
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because someday somehow pain will end
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sickness will end disease will end death
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will end suffering will end and we will
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reign we will have dominion over the
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world
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we will no longer be subjected to the
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world but we will have dominion
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with jesus christ and this is because
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jesus did it for us
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so you should take um some kind of re
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find rejoice in these words and that's
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what the scripture is telling us today
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all right so i hope that this these
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words have blessed you
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and i look forward to the next time we
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meet again like i said
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i'm not sure when i'm gonna do this
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again maybe next week
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depends on it all depends on how the
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lord chooses to
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use me at that moment alright so have a
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wonderful day and i'll see you next time
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thank you
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