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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Being led by the Spirit of God is

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not being led into a lie, into the truth. God loves you, He made you, He's got

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a purpose for your life. Listen, He knows exactly who you are and who you're

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supposed to be. We don't know who we're supposed to be. He knows.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled

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life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us,

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that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs.

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I know you're sitting here right now and it doesn't seem like you're getting any movement,

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but that's just your physical body right now. Did you know that if you're listening,

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the Bible says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God, right? Your ears are

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taken in the truth of God and it's going into your brain processed and it's being deposited in

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your soul. That alone is fascinating. Physical sounds carrying eternal truth,

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ponder that for a moment, a teleonometry, the conveyance or the sending of information

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where we get the word telemetry leaves, goes to the air processed by your ear,

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put into your mind your soul, suke, your mind thinking, and then what your mind decides to do

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with it either rejects it or settles down into your heart and becomes faith.

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A lot of people are going to wind up in hell because they missed it by 18 inches.

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That's the distance between your brain and your heart. Get it on the inside

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and when it takes root, you are exercising yourself to godliness.

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So look at this verse, 1 Timothy 47. Do not waste time arguing over godless ideas and old-wise

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fables. Instead, train yourself to be godly. In other words, train yourself to do what Jesus

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would do. Verse 8, physical training is good, but training for godliness is much better.

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I'm going to submit to you, it's also much harder. Promising benefits in this life and in the

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life to come. This is a trustworthy saying and everyone should accept it. Now, you guys, I've been,

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so here's the thing. We're supposed to exercise. We really should do that.

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I used to exercise and then I met my wife. I haven't, I think, I stopped like 44 years ago, I stopped.

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But you should exercise. You should keep your body usable to god. You don't want to

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abuse your body so god can't use your body. You want to keep your body usable. That's why you,

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you don't eat donuts or sometimes donuts. I heard the groan over here. This guy's flesh,

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this guy's flesh over here went, oh, but look, you can go overboard. You can go overboard in this

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and you can go too hard on this. But listen, spiritually speaking, look, we should take care of

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our bodies. But spiritually speaking, how much am I working out spiritually? And I'm going to

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submit to you that it's hard work. I could go to the gym. I'm not, but I could and do something

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there. And it's okay. You get a pump and you feel fine and you feel good. But the thing is,

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you know this, right? It only lasts for a little while. How many days? Maybe hours, days? And it's

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like, man, I got to get back in there. But spiritually speaking, when you're building up your spirit,

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that's the workout of the inside, attitude, priorities, vision, life, being led by the spirit of god.

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It's amazing. You guys know that I have a dear friend. I call him when I text him. I just say,

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I call him my brother or my son in the faith. He's in the NFL. He'll be starting this year

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first string quarterback. And here's the thing. He's got to work on his body. You know, listen,

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there's an army that gathers around these guys to make sure how's your ankle? How's your ankle today?

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How's your toe? It's fine. You know, can you move your neck? I mean, these people, they're like

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race horses. These athletes. But the most important thing to him is, and he's always saying to me,

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I just want to make sure I glorify Christ. I want to make sure I glorify Christ. And all these

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say, no matter what, health, no health, touchdown, no touchdown, when are lost? I want to glorify Jesus.

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That's a great way to live being led by the spirit. Don't just talk about it, say it. So what do you

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mean by that? Verse 15, for you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear. Wow. But you

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received the spirit of adoption. Notice the counter to fear is knowing your adoption.

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Opposing powers. Fear? Adoption. By whom we cry out, Abba, father, verse 16, for the spirit

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himself, the Holy Spirit, bears witness with our spirit internally, the real you, by the way,

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the real you lives inside your body will not live forever. The inside of you, your thinking,

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your personality, the you that animates your body will live forever. That's the spirit.

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The Holy Spirit bears witness that we are children of God. What a profound statement that is,

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everybody. That is huge. Mark it down this way, please. When I say, say it, I mean this. Say it

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that the Lord has called you his own. The Bible says this. God has chosen to call you his own.

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He said, Jack, I don't see that in the text. Yes, you do. In the scripture there, verse 15,

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do you see the Arabic word Abba? It's not Hebrew, it's Arabic. Jesus spoke predominantly Arabic,

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Hebrew and Greek in your New Testament. Arabic. Arabic. Now Hebrew, the Greek, the Greeks.

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The Jews in Israel, it's very fun. When we're there, you'll see the kids playing in the streets

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and they'll be running goofing off and they'll call to their dad and they'll go Abba and it's

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just very cute, especially for us because that's not the way we don't call our dad's Abba. We say

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dad. Now if we're really going to be accurate and this is offensive, listen, if you're Jewish,

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you're going to be offended in the next few moments. If you're a legalist, you're going to be offended.

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In fact, the scribes and Pharisees were horrifically offended to the point. They were so offended that

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when Jesus described his existence and his eternalness with his father, Jesus said Abba.

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And Abba is what Italian word is Papa. This offends people. Don't say that, that's sacrilegious.

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Maybe for a legalistic person it is, but not for Jesus and not for his sons and daughters.

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Listen, if you call your loving father daddy or dad, that is a term of endearment. I hate to

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be blunt here, but here it is. Anyone can father a child. I'm just going to take that back in the

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stage. Time out. Let me put that back. If you're a man with male parts that are healthy, you can

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father a child. Look, I worked 13 years in biology. I mean, you just can't fake that. It's

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it's it. You can father a kid that doesn't make you a dad. The Bible would say Papa,

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how tender is that? Many times when Jesus was speaking to his father in the gospel, he says Papa,

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he says Abba. I love that. Have you noticed that when a child is needing their father,

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they'll run and they'll call out daddy or, and by the way, when they do that, I don't know,

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roughly around the age three, four, five, they'll run and they'll grab onto dad's knee and hide

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behind his thigh. Look out from behind to see what's going on. They're okay. Dad's got this. I've

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run to Papa. It's remarkable. It's awesome. Note that he says to us what did not happen. The

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moment we came to know Christ, one thing is certain. Fear went out the window. There is no just a

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viable reason for a Christian to be fearful. Do we hear news we don't want to hear? Of course we

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do. Are the things we don't understand all the time? But this I know. God loves me. He's going to

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work it out. What a living. I don't know. What if you die? If I die, I win.

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Nothing can separate us from the love of God the Bible says.

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Okay. So we didn't receive that spirit of bondage, slavery. We didn't receive a spirit of fear.

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But look at the positive in this statement. It is that word cry.

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Crosso in Greek. It means to shout out with a loud scream, to shout, to scream, to cry out,

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loud. The child of God cries out to God saying, Papa, Father, Dad, that's hard for us,

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especially if we've got a wall built up to this relationship with our God.

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The book of Hebrews chapter 10 verse 5 says, but the Holy Spirit also bears witness with us

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for after he had said before, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days

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says the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts and into their minds. I will write them.

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Put an awesome statement. Have you noticed kids that take after their Father?

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Their Abba? I'm talking about in the positive.

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Little kids will mimic mom and dad listen. It's very sweet. Notice when when

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juniors three years old, he tries to put on dad's work boots and walk around the house.

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Don't discourage that. Don't say, oh, you're going to scoff up the floor.

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Forget the floor. Let the kid try to walk around in his dad's boots. Now listen,

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let's be honest. If he puts on mommy's high heels, this really happens. No, no, no, they will do it.

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They don't know the difference. This is where parenting comes in. Parenting 101. Hey, buddy,

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those are from mom. Those are for your sister. Take those off and put on your dad's boots.

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Can you do that? You better do that. That's called parenting.

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Train up a child in the way that they should go. If you have any doubts, look at the parts.

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No, it's you guys. This is normal. Being led by the spirit of God is not being led into a lie

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into the truth. God loves you. He made you. He's got a purpose for your life. Listen, he knows

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exactly who you are and who you're supposed to be. We don't know who we're supposed to be.

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He knows. And when we surrender and quit and give up to him, God says, this is great. I'll take

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over from here. And he goes to work and he leads us and he guides us. And the scripture says that

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we have received in the positive spirit of adoption. And I'll end with this. You've all heard of

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Julius Caesar, right? You know, Julius Caesar is considered really the father of the emperors,

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the way that he conducted himself, what he achieved, Julius Caesar. But this to me is fascinating.

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Watch this. You've got Paul the Apostle writing this book. He's a Jew to Italians in Rome,

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predominantly non-Jewish. Are you with me? I'm landing. I'm coming in. I need you to...

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In Judaism, there is no adoption. You don't read about adoption in the Old Testament.

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It's not there. It's all bloodline. Bloodline, bloodline, genealogy. Are you a coheothite? Are you a

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Levite? That's what matters to them. Blood. That doesn't matter to God.

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Look, you say, how can you say that? I'm saying it based on Abraham. Abraham had no... I mean,

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he had blood, but Abraham had no blood connected to anybody. Tell me, who was Abraham related to

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on the bloodline that was acceptable to God? You can't find that. You want to know why? Because Abraham,

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there were no Jews until Abraham showed up. And when Abraham showed up, he was a Gentile.

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And God said, because you believe me, and what I've said to you,

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I'm going to account your belief as righteousness, Abraham, to you. That's why Abraham learned that

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the just shall live by faith. I'm not fascinating. The first Jew was first a Gentile before he came

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at you. And what made him a Jew? The word Jew means to worship God. If your name is Judy,

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Judith, if your name is Jude, like in the mail, like Jude law, Jude, it means to praise God.

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A God-Praiser. Paul is telling the Romans, I got good news.

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You know how you guys, you Romans, you guys, you know how you guys do it? It's the right way.

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Regarding salvation? Yeah, you know Julius Caesar? How that came down?

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At the time of his death, he had no kids. Well, he had no kids that he would recognize.

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But there was this one man who impressed him and he loved him. Good guy. His name was

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Gaius Octavius. Who's heard of him? You have his name is Caesar Augustus. How do that happen?

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That's a good question. According to Roman law, the Roman law of adoption, you can pick anybody

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you want to inherit all of your wealth and power. Did you use the one? Have such a thing?

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So when Julius Caesar anointed Gaius Octavius, he became the next emperor and inherited everything.

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Now, Julius Caesar died, so his will declared it. He covered his bases.

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But Roman practice is this. Take this young man that you want to adopt and you could adopt women as

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well. It's not exclusively male. You go to the forum in Rome, if you've ever been there,

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if you've not been there, you've got to make it one of your bucket lists. It's an amazing place to

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have a Bible study. I'm telling you, it's incredible. It's very well intact. You would stand there before

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the legalities and there were seven of them, seven eyewitnesses. And you stood and you put your hand

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on the head of the son to be. And you said, this is my only son.

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And the moment you said that in front of seven witnesses,

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their vow was to uphold your commitment for the life of that young man.

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I find it interesting that it's seven. The seven spirits, the Bible says, the seven eyes

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of the Holy Spirit are upon you. Seven witnesses bear witness to the vow made

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and the conveyance of power and wealth and authority. And it's done in a matter of seconds.

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And Gaia's Octavius' life was changed forever in so were the history books.

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The same verbiage is used when the Bible tells us in the Gospels, when God says, this is my

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beloved son. Hear him. This is my son. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten

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son. Do you see the conveyance? God conveyed unto Christ when he came into the world. God the

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son took upon himself the form of us. And God said, in your humanity, I give you all authority

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to represent the kingdom of heaven. As you go to the cross, as you die there, and as you're buried

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in the tomb, and as you're resurrected to the third day, all that you achieve will be to the

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conveyance of the sons and daughters of God from that moment forward. You want to make sure today

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friend you've been adopted by God. And if you want to be, say yes to him. Let him say it to you.

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And then you say it to others. I'm a child of God. I gave my heart to Christ. The Bible says,

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I belong to the living God. Don't be surprised in that moment when that happens that the things

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of this world will carry much less power over your life as Jesus gets bigger and bigger in your heart.

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