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Walk, Sit, Stand Pt.2

Hallelujah! Let's turn to Hebrews, Chapter 12. We want to continue looking at this subject we have been dealing with, the practical aspects of the cross we have been given to bear on a daily basis. We saw that the cross, in the study that we just finished, wasn't necessarily the trials of life--hardship--but it was a choice to deny self: the great enemy of ego, the great enemy of selfness. What many of us have thought over the years as the cross, different trials and adversities, are really just part what life is all about; everyone has hard times. There's going to be the fact that living in a world that is reeling like a drunk man, the Scripture says, waiting for the day of its redemption. We see that in our climate, all of the radical changes. We realize that in the last days this is something that's been prophesied, so that the weather patterns are changing, earthquakes are going to increase, the Scripture says, as these last days come upon us. When that happens, Christians' houses are going to shake down. We're going to be affected by the climate changes. (Could snow tonight--right?--the predictions.) People began to think that somehow this is a cross that they have to bear. No, this is the life that we are living. The rain falls upon the just and the unjust. So we realize that this is the world that we are living in. So, don't mistake what the crosses are. The Bible says that we're to take up--"If any man will come after me, let him deny himself..." (Matthew 16:24). The invitation has been given to all of us; we have to make the choice to pursue and embrace the cross and deny ourselves daily. From there we went on into the study to say, okay, how do we practically deny ourselves?

What does it mean to come to that type of lifestyle of denying self? We saw that it has to do, then, with living contrary to the world's philosophy. To be a friend with the world's system is to be the enemy with God. When we talk about the world, we're not just talking about the earth--terra firma--we're not talking about society-- civil authority, politics in and of themselves--realizing that all of these things are instruments affected by sin, by the curse, by the fall of man. So, when we talk about the world, when we talk about the world's systems, we're not talking just about politics, we're not just talking about lascivious behavior and lifestyles. We're talking about anything that exalts man above God, because the original sin was, "Partake of this fruit, your eyes will be opened and you will be as God." So, anything that puts itself as God or instead of God is the world, it's the kingdom of darkness. It can even appear to be, as we have shared many times, something that natural man would see as good or moral, but if it is being done by man, for man, it is antichrist, it's sin, it's evil. So, apparent good can be evil. We don't think that way; it doesn't come natural to us, but as our minds are renewed we have to see things that way and that will, then, affect how you and I embrace our daily life and the cross.

So, all of our thought processes, then, are going to be crossing culture--the natural man. You and I are always going to be in opposition with the majority, and we have to understand that. And if somehow you're flowing with the majority and comfortable with the majority's thought, then you need to begin to check your own heart. If it's acceptable to us, we need to check our own hearts. So, it is very important, as we come into this practical part, to understand why we are practically saying you need to choose where you're going to spend your time, who you are going to spend it with and what you're going to be pursuing. In this last day, there is going to be that seduction that's going to draw men away from the kingdom of God to be lovers of pleasure, as the prophet said, more than lovers of God. That describes our society today. We want to find out how we can oppose this and prepare ourselves, insulate ourselves, from this onslaught of selfness.

We talked a little bit in the last session about, even the secular arenas are beginning to find out that the "I Generation," the self esteem philosophy, didn't produce what they were hoping that it would. What was the self esteem doctrine? It was the backlash to the generation that preceded it. We've shared many times before--my particular generation, we grew up under the guidance of what's been referred as the "great generation," and I don't disagree with that. I think that from a secular, civil perspective that the generation preceding mine was one of the great generations. What made them that way? Adversity, a war (a couple of wars), the depression, a simple life that kids like myself grew up hearing--and still a phrase that my grandmother uses (We were with them not too long ago and I heard her say it and I flashed back to when I was just a little kid), I can't tell how many times I have heard my grandmother say that over the years--"Well, we will just make-do." Those are foreign words to this current generation. "Just make-do--Nothing! Charge it! Make-do, when you can have new? You don't make-do when you can have new."

So, here we are living in a generation that doesn't know how to make-do, that have no intention of making-do, that have everything in place to acquire instant gratification. What we need as a people is temperance, discipline and redirecting of our priorities and our values into the heavenlies. We are being seduced and we're being absolutely destroyed, as the prophet of old said, by our prosperity. "And by their prosperity," Daniel said, "the antichrist will destroy them." Now, if that's the prediction, then what shall we do to prepare ourselves? "Well, I know; let's just sell everything we have and move into a cave somewhere and hide out, become survivalists." Well, to the natural mind and from traditional thought, we've seen the secular church, the Catholic Church, do that. I say "secular" because they are a secular kingdom with religious trappings. They have created their monasteries and created all of this works mentality of goodness, righteousness based upon works and performance. And if you don't perform properly you, then, deal with the physical man, and you beat yourself with whips or you crawl on your knees until they bleed (in Latin America), or whatever other form of asceticism is chosen, whether it's monastic living or self-mutilation. How does that stack up with, "You're the salt of the earth and the light of the world"? The Scripture say that we're to occupy until He comes. The Scripture says, "Don't flee the world, but go into all the world and make disciples," amen? So, here we are, in the world but not of it. How are we going to pull this thing off? How are we going to stand in this hour? We talked about the great problem that the majority of us would have here and that's thinking of ourselves more highly that we ought to think. Thinking, "Well, praise God! I'm committed and I'm going to stand." I want to tell you something, better: people than you have fallen.

All you have to do is go back into the Scriptures and look at what it is that caused Moses to sin and caused David to sin and caused Samson to sin and caused Peter to sin. Find those things in your life and make preparation to not put yourself in that same environment. All those men that we just named sinned for the same reason: over confidence, idleness and wrong companionship. When we begin to surround ourselves with the right people, there's safety in a multitude of counselors. If you're going to go out to make war, the wise man says, gets some counselors around you. We're at war everyday. What are people telling you? Are they telling you, "You're okay; this is great, we're doing fine"? Or is there preparation for warfare on a daily basis? Are the wounds of a friend coming and piercing your heart so that you would hear the truth about yourself and be ready to stand? Is a friend's sharpening of the iron in your life, the countenance in your life, bringing you the counsel that's necessary, in this last day, to stand?

Hebrews 12 says, "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us." A couple of different things: The cloud of witnesses--we want to take a look at who these witnesses are, the fact that there is a race before us. It's a marathon; it's not a sprint. Many of us start this race wide open and we take off and we think, "Praise God, I am going to get this thing done. I'm going to blast out here and I'm going to become super-saint overnight." We run and just fall on our face after about eight hundred meters. That's about the end of the sprint range; for some of us it's eight meters. Eight hundred meters; you still can run pretty much wide open for the two hundred meters. I used to love to watch Johnson run the two hundred. What a sprinter he was! You know they call the world's fastest human, the hundred meter runners. Back in the old days when it was Bob Hayes, it went to Heinz, I believe--I don't know who the current champion is--but it's one thing I love seeing, that burst of speed and power, but the speed and grace of a two hundred--a Tommy Smith or a Johnson--to watch these guys run was phenomenal. Evans, who held the world's record so long in the four hundred meters set down in Mexico--and it lasted for decades and decades--I used to watch him run in high school. Impressive, but you know you just can't run all out forever. Those of you that are discouraged sometimes by those periods in your life when it doesn't seem like you are sprinting--It's impossible! Don't get discouraged. Run with patience.

Are you moving in the right direction? You know, some of us start out--I love watching some of these old people out exercising. No, I don't see myself as one of them. I'm talking about old people. Now, some of them are my age and old, but I'm not old. I love to watch some of these folks jogging. You can be walking like this (backwards); they're jogging and you can be talking to them. "Yeah, how have you been?" They have all the motions of the jog going on. I mean, snails are going under their feet safely before the next one comes down. But they're headed somewhere, they're doing something, they've got a goal. The fact is that many of us think that somewhere in this Christian life it's acceptable to coast, and it's not.

"...run with patience the race that is set before us." There's to be a continual effort being made, there's to be a consistency. When we talk about patience, remember that we have said patience not only means "endurance," but the word patience also carries a strong meaning of "consistency." Are you repetitively making preparation to grow, to draw closer to the Lord? Are you constantly heading toward the mark, the prize of the high calling of God in Jesus Christ? Or do you find yourself coasting? Do you find yourself in neutral sometimes? This is only something that you know; this is something that you have to examine your own heart. Now, don't make the mistake of judging yourself by your intentions, and don't just evaluate yourself by what you have accomplished in the past. The admonition here in Hebrews 12 is what? We have a great cloud of witnesses. Those people are our examples. Go to Hebrews 11 and look at some examples and find out what it is that made these people champions. Nowhere does Paul say that you get a participation trophy. He said that we are all running for the (say it) prize. In other words, everyone is responsible to pursue for the championship, to win, to be the best. The best among us? No, the best that you can be, because we are all different. The question we have to ask ourselves, then, this morning is this: Am I preparing myself constantly, consistently; making preparation and actively participating to be better than I was yesterday? Am I improving?

It is amazing to me how little kids--it's not even something there doing to improve--have you ever noticed how little kids are so fascinated--I know like with Hailey and Hope and in the little room where they get measured, and they are so proud when the little marks go up and they are growing. "Hey, look how much I grew." Little Daniel LaRock--you saw him playing basketball up here. I was looking at the picture from him last year at this time and couldn't believe it. Mary Ann said he has grown seven inches since last year. (By the way, they're all coming down tonight and so is the Richmond church coming up for the ordination of Pastor Les (Stone) this evening. So, scoot over, we are going to be full tonight. There'll be some fellowship afterwards, so it'll be a good time to hang out. Probably no school Monday if the weathermen get it right--there's probably a twenty percent chance of that; there's a twenty percent of their eighty percent being right.) So proud of those marks going up; they're not doing anything, they're just waking up and growing. Are you growing? If you are spiritually alive and you're hanging out in the right environment you should be growing and if not then you are embracing the world's system. You're actually experiencing death. It is important for us to look at these principles.

"...seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses." What that says is, since people have gone before you and me and they have accomplished this, then why do you think that you are not responsible to and why do you think that you are not able to? Because God is no respecter of persons; there's been given to every man the measure of faith. So many of us, in our lives and in growing up, have never been pushed toward anything. It's so easy for us to say, "I am doing my best." How many of you in your life, physically or spiritually, have been pushed beyond your limitations (the ones set in your own mind)? What Paul admonishes us to do, in pressing toward the mark, the prize, the high calling of God, is to put that upon ourselves because of the value that we have put on the prize. See, if you're not pushing yourself, then that thing is not worth anything. Most of the other things in life you've wanted you've made an effort to get. How about Christlikeness? How about less of the carnal, the natural man than existed yesterday? How about, "forgetting the things that are behind I press toward the mark? I forget those things that used to be important. I forget the pursuits that I used to have; I count them loss for the knowledge of Christ." Has there been a conscious re-evaluation and re-prioritizing in our lives? It has to be conscious. "I forget those things, I re-value them. The things that I used to hold dear--the things that were important to me, the things that used to always capture my mind--I forget about, that I might obtain Christ."

So, what we're talking about is a life of temperance, discipline, self-control. We want to go to abstinence so much but we need to talk about temperance, discipline. So, we begin to look at the great cloud of witnesses, we have no excuses. They've gone on, they accomplished it, they've shown us how to succeed by daily embracing the cross. The one thing we learn about these people is some of them were delivered and some of them died, but it was all in faith. You see, a lot of us are afraid to go out there and put it all on the line because we might die. Many of us are not even afraid of dying, we're afraid of being branded failures. I want to tell you something: you can die in faith and can be a success. It's not about living or dying; it's about abiding in Christ. It's about doing those things that we're doing by faith, because without faith it's impossible to please God. Faith is contrary to natural reason because it calls things that are not as though they were. Faith is the evidence of things not seen. It's sufficient, the promise of God is sufficient to motivate me, whether I even obtain it in this life or not. I'm fully aware that I am living in the approval of God. I'm pleasing God. I'm apprehending that--Philippians says--for which I have been apprehended, a life in the Spirit.

So, this great cloud of witnesses that's before us, seeing that we have them as our examples, we're compassed about, we're surrounded by these folks, we are part of them. Because of that, then, lay aside ever weight. Lay aside every weight, anything that would slow you down. We began to look at our lives; we have to ask ourselves the question: "Since it is a marathon and not a sprint, what is it at this moment that is hindering me from the momentary prize of consistent growth?" You see, the interesting thing is this--and in our lives you're going to find this out--some of the things we lay aside, God gives us back in this journey and it's not a weight anymore. It's only a weight to us because, see, we're capable of carrying whatever needs to be carried when we're yoked with Him. "Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for my yoke is easy and my burden [say it] light." It doesn't matter how heavy it is; if you're yoked up with Jesus, if you are in the will of God, if you are pursuing things orderly, the burden is (say it) light.

"...lay aside every weight..." When is it a weight? When it's got the wrong value on it. When is it a weight? When I've made it a treasure. When is it a weight? When I am carrying it in my own strength. When is it a weight? When it is robbing the glory of God. At other times we can carry that same thing, whatever it is: a job, a house, a salary, recognition from peers, whatever it is. There are many times we can carry that and the burden is light. The fact that something we're carrying through this life, because we are yoked up with Jesus and we're in the will of God, it becomes a weight that has to be set aside when it is restraining us from that life pattern that the great cloud of witnesses had. What are you carrying at this moment that needs to be set aside? Where and what is the prize before us?

"...lay aside every weight, and the sin..." Now, we know what sin is: Sin is missing the mark--sin isn't an action, sin is not behavior, it is not an inanimate object--sin is transgression of the law. "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin" (James 4:17). So, sin is not just not doing good; sin is when you know to do good and you don't do it. Sin isn't just doing evil. Now, sin is transgression of the law. Those are your simple biblical definitions of sin: Sin is transgression of the law. He that knows to do good and doeth it not to him it is sin. All unrighteousness is sin.

"...lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us..." Are we transgressing the law, are we living unrighteously--which means self-righteously--living a good life, a disciplined life but by self, for self; or have we embraced the cross and died to self will and self ability and self confidence? For me to live is Christ, and now I'm living by the faith of the Son of God; now I'm living by faith-righteousness, righteousness which is by faith. It's not of works, it's not of the law, and there can be no boasting. Transgression of the law (all unrighteousness) is sin, or is it knowing to do something and I'm not doing it? "I know what God expects me to do, I know who he wants me to hang out with, I know what the reprioritizing is to be in my life, and I plan on getting around to it." "...lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us..." It's very important that we realize the danger of these things, the besetting aspects surrounding us. Something that is confining us and restraining us now, it holds us captive.

So Paul admonishes us here, he says, "Look, how are you going to get out of this mess?" "...run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame..." You know, so many of us today--because it's been mocked for generations--a lot of us--now, not doctrinally, but I am talking about practically--a lot of us aren't living for heaven; we are living for good families and good relationships and peace of mind and health and prosperity. The joy that is set before us. The joy of seeing of His face one of these days. How many of you can say this morning, in this morning's worship service, there was a true longing, a heartache, a hunger, an anticipation, an excitement for the trumpet of God to sound, for the immediate changing and everything in this life vanish? And you finally get to see Him! You finally get to see Him! And everything we have lived for is finally realized. The joy set before us: the presence of God; the face of Jesus! We will see Him and we'll be like Him.

Christlikeness, be like Him. It's not just seeing Him; it's being like Him. We get to be like Him. All this stuff we now hate--do you hate the flesh, do you hate the sin, do you hate way that you behave, hate the way you think; do you hate the limitations of naturalness, do you hate the limitations of carnality, do you hate the limitations of time and space? We're going to get to be like Him, Praise God! The joy set before. For Him the joy was just being Himself, just being able to express love to the unlovely. The joy for Him was not something future, because He lives in the ever-present now; God is eternal. It's not like, "Boy! One of these days I'll get to have joy!" He's always had joy. We are talking about the man, Jesus, the Incarnate One, the limitation that He put upon Himself by becoming flesh and dwelling among us. So, speaking in anthropomorphic terms so we can understand, He makes comments like that, but for you and me it's a reality. There's a joy that's future because we are not eternal beings. It's far greater than anything that would restrain us and hold us captive to momentary pleasures. What have we done with our value system? "Looking unto Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured..." Patiently enduring, consistently enduring is what we are being called to. I like the way that Paul speaks again, that's the Hebrew's passage, but in Romans 8:13 he says "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live."

I want to talk about--we're talking about laying aside every sin and weight, and how do we do this thing? Is it going to be through asceticism? Is it going to be through temperance, which means me sitting down now and choosing these things? I want you to see how they're going to be identified, first of all. You can't even sit down and identify them; you're going to make mistakes. "Through the Spirit you mortify the works of the flesh," Paul says in Romans eight. So here's the key to this thing and how it starts off. Don't start by looking at what you can stop or refrain from. "I am going to stop this and that will make me better over here." No. Begin to walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. The Spirit will begin to identify these things as you began to draw nigh unto God, He will draw nigh unto you. As you begin to--Hebrews 11, preceding Hebrew 12--begin to live a life of faith and begin to call things that are not as though they were. Forgetting those things that are behind, pressing toward the mark, the prize of the high calling of God, forget the successes, forget the failures. Just say, "Right now I realize one thing in my life, I have got to began to embrace this cross." The first spiritual move you're going to make of walking in the spirit is what we just finished the whole series on and that's denying self. Not denying the physical being, denying the self-man, the ego, selfishness; making the quality decision to bow to the lordship of Jesus. You say, "Well, I've done that. I'm a believer, I'm born again."

I understand that. Are you consciously, in every decision, saying, "Lord what would you have me to do?" Or do you know that the first thing you do when you get up in the morning, "The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is I get up and I do this and I prepare, I go to work, and I get up in the morning, and I get the kids ready, and I clean the house and whatever." What if God has something else for you to do? "Well, I keep waiting to hear that voice, 'Sleep in,' but I don't ever hear it." We get so caught up in our schedules and our priorities and how things have to be done. "Hey, don't interrupt my schedule; this is how I do it. And this is when I do this and this is when I eat and this is when I exercise and this is when I go shopping and this is when I go..." What has God got to say about your life and your schedule? When's the last time you took off a day of work to pray, to go witnessing, to refresh yourself spiritually? When's the last time you took off a day of work for you? How many of you have taken off for you as opposed to the voice of God? Now don't just say, "Okay, tomorrow I'm taking off." That's not what I'm saying.

I'm saying have ears to hear, at least be open, ready. Understand how much we're bound by the natural man and be made aware of that and start listening to God so that you can walk in the spirit and then you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. But many of us don't even consider that. We expect God to speak to us and work outside our already established schedule. "If God will speak to me outside my already established life pattern, then I'm ready to do whatever He says." That's not how the men and women of Hebrews 11 lived. That's not how you and I are going to live if we're ever going to live free of this world, and we're able to ever embrace the cross and reprioritize in our lives what's really value to us. Paul said in Colossians, Chapter 3, verse 5 that we are to "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; [It is interesting when he talks about members, he says] fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:" Mortify, put it to death, the members which are upon the earth. In Romans 13 he says in the fourteenth verse, "But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof." That word provisions means "plans or preparation or opportunity."

How much opportunity and how many plans are made for the secular, the temporal, and how many plans are being made--I know people--there are complaints periodically and different murmuring and stuff that go among us. I know the different things that have been said concerning the fact that we have prayer Tuesdays and Thursdays, and there's that society community pressure put upon us that if you are part of us then you are going to be here. And the young adult meetings and people say, "Well, you know..." Let me ask you a question: If somebody else had not made those provisions for you what would you be doing with that time? If it was left up totally to you? "Well, it is. I have my own will." Yes, you do, we acknowledge that; some people don't think they do, but we're people that do. You have your own will. What we are saying is we have set up some standards, we've set up some opportunities to pursue the Spirit and we've done everything that we know how to try to influence by example over the years--The staff being here every night. The staff being here every night, asking you to come twice a week--what do you think you would do, and then now be truthful with yourself. If that's the case, how important is Psalm 119, verse 63 that we talked about Wednesday night, "I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts."

Let me ask you a question: Where would you be right now, living in the Lord, if you were left to yourself? Then, how much more do we need the influence of the cloud of witnesses, both historical and contemporary, to make it? We know all the principles. What I want to do is take it up a notch for each us. If we know that we can't make it on our own--and we know we can't--then shouldn't we evaluate the companions that we have and the environment that we are living in? Back to Psalm 1, where we were Wednesday, and we will finish up this morning with this. Psalm 1, "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. [Remember this same principle that we have been setting forth: It's not just abstaining; it's not, as we saw in 2 Timothy 2, just fleeing youthful lust but following after righteousness. So, we flee, or we abstain, from the counsel of the ungodly, the way of sinners, the seat of the scornful, we abstain from that, but we must pursue, or follow delighting in the law of the Lord, meditating day and night and then we] ...shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."

The Scripture says, "...meditate therein day and night... for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success" (Joshua 1:8). Meditate, the word in the Hebrew means, "to mutter, to say over and over, to be involved." It's not just thinking about it; it's doing, it's speaking. So with all of the noise and all of the business in our generation, we've done everything we know how in this fellowship to try to bring us, as a group, together to strengthen one another, to live separate from the world, to have common spiritual pursuit and heavenly treasures and to oppose seduction from the world and its system that's being embraced by so many professed Christians today. But you know, it's not enough for us to chase you, you've got to pursue God, you have to press toward the mark, you have to make the choice. "As many as would follow Me, let them take up their cross daily." You have been pursued of God, you've been pursued of friends, and for you to make it you're going to have to start pursuing, apprehending that, Philippians says, for which you have been apprehended.

Father, we thank You for Your Word this morning. We just ask You that in this generation, we could be a people that would please You, a people, godly in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, drunken with the presence of God, seduced with the fragrance of holiness. A people set apart; when everyone else is seeking to be common and to become a part, we want to be set apart. The spirit of one world, tolerance, unity, one-world government, one-world ideology; we want to be a people set apart, different, unique, holy. We want to be companions of those who embrace the cross, who boast in our rejection of the world and its rejection of us. Help us live in the spirit that we wouldn't fulfill the lust of the flesh. Just more of You. A glimpse of who You are. A taste of Your goodness. Let us catch just a scent of Your purity that we'd be drawn to You. We know the doctrines. We know what we should value, but what do we value? If anything else is distracting, drawing, pulling on us, it's because it's been too long since you have tasted Him and His goodness, because nothing else compares. Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.

Let's stand before the Lord. As Gary plays for us for just a moment, we hear what the Holy Spirit has to say to us. We're all in different places. Some of you may be in that all-out sprint right now, saying, "Come on! What's wrong with you guys?" Just calm down and remember last week we were carrying you. To everything there is a season. But there must be the pattern that's very clear in your life of each season, and there must be historical fruit, and there must be pruning that we'd bring forth more fruit, and patience as our fruit remains. A tree planted by the waters, roots deep. Let's sing this together and just worship Him. "Jesus, I am thirsty. Please come and fill me." If our desire's for more of You Lord, there's always more available than we can consume. You're there to do exceeding abundant above anything that we could ask or even think. So we rest in that if we seek You with all of our hearts we'll find You. In the midst of a world that is seeking temporal, selfish, humanistic goals, we forget those things that are behind and we press on toward the mark, the prize, the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Apprehending that for which we have been apprehended, and we say thank You for the grace. Thank You for the drawing and enabling of Your Holy Spirit. We boast that it's You that works in us to will and to do Your good pleasure. So we give You the glory, Father. In Jesus' name. Amen! Before you go, turn to somebody next to you and say, "I choose the cross." Amen. Go in peace, God's love go with you.

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