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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. Listen to walk to the valley of

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the shadow of death is living through this life now and to the moment you've

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read your last breath and then to be absent from the bodies to be present with

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the Lord you go home you see Christ God opens up the game says come on in this is

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what Jesus has done for us you can get the outlines of this podcast by going to

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jackhibbs.com slash podcast today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you

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to live a more fulfilled life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of

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those five star ratings to us that's like saying amen or yes then that

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rating will encourage others to listen now open your hearts to what God's word

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has to say to you here is Jack Hibbs the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians chapter

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5 verse 21 for God the Father made him who is Christ who knew no sin to be sin

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for us that means God laid upon him your lust your anger your pride jealousy you

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name it everything God put it upon him that we might become the righteousness of

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God in him in Christ I wrote in my Bible the great exchange Christ goes to the cross he

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dies in my place he puts his righteousness and demolishes my sin he picks it up he carries

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my sin he demolishes by his righteousness then he turns around and being resurrected from the dead

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he bestows upon us his righteousness and changes the account ledger that your name my name is

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in heaven and underneath you still have all of this stuff what is known as the handwriting of

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ordinances that were against us Christ washed them away by his blood you should clap at that we

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should all be very happy about that atonement atonement Christ carried our sins and he washed them away

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he did that and if you understand that then you get to experience freedom from guilt and shame

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because you're the one that become keenly aware of the fact that there used to be a different

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you and now there's a new you and he died for you because he loved you

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met you five verse 41 the Bible says Jesus says and whoever compels you to go a mile go with them

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too give to him who ask you and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away

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wow this is so Christlike you've heard that it has been said you shall love your neighbor

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and hate your enemy that was the proverb until Jesus blew that out of the water

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verse 44 but I say to you love your enemies bless those who curse you

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do good to those who hate you and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you

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that you may be sons of your father in heaven say jack I can't do that none of us could do that

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but we have to ask God to give us that kind of love are we willing to bear the burdens of even

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of those who hate us now I understand we are called and commanded to bear the burdens of those

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in the family but what about those in our lives who I mean they may not have come up and say

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I hate you or maybe they have then it makes it very simple you know what to do but if it's somebody

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it's just like you kind of get the feeling yeah I don't think they like me figure out a way to

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bless them I am not going to tell you with some details because I don't want to give you the details

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it's I'll just say this many many years ago decades ago there was a person that just would not

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leave me alone it was bad nuisance I'm telling you every turn I'm hearing something about me

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that I didn't know about me this person spreading stuff this person saying things just this

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incredibly overwhelming preoccupation was discussed for me and I thought it was pretty contained

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and quiet meaning limited to just and then I began to hear strangers talk about it and I just

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here's my first thought I remember it like it was yesterday Jesus this is doing nothing but hurting

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your reputation your name your glory your word I don't know what to do and then I go on

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and live my day and then I do what you do the next morning I'm reading my Bible and I come across

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this scripture and this is bless those who curse you do good to those who spitefully use you

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and say all kinds of evil against you for my name's sake how can I do that God first of all I'd

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have to get a phone call through to them somehow they would never take my call but what would I do

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in our family there's a tradition it's been going on for generations and that is that from my mother

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in the Hawaiian culture my family generations on my mom's side there is this very very special meal

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I will just say it's you have you ever heard of a loco moco well that's junk compared to what this

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is it's Hawaiian fried rice and eggs but it's unbelievable the way that it's prepared all of this

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stuff and my mom taught it to me and I taught it to Lisa and our daughters and our granddaughter and

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that's a deal but you only share it with special people that's the tradition and you know what God

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said to me I thought he was so wrong he said that's what I want you to do to this person see what

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but here's the deal Lisa cannot be involved she needs to be dismissed you're in the kitchen you do all

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the preparation you do it you set the table you make it but I don't know this I'm not kidding you

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guys listening I I don't know what kind of bread the guy likes what did God say God said get wheat

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get white get rye get sourdough and I had it all I don't know if the guy likes coffee or tea I had coffee

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and tea I made it all up person came over and said what do you try to do kill me no please sit down

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that breakfast was at 8 a.m that person talked till about noon I didn't understand what was going

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on they got in their car they drove away and when that person drove away I can't explain to you

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and I'm glad I cannot explain it to you it was so supernatural I felt like I had lost 10 pounds

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in 30 seconds there was this piece and this release of blessing the one who spoke evil of you

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did that person stop speaking evil of me no it never bothered me again

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when when you see scriptures like that and you say I can't do that please do it

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because listen Jesus want you to be free and the world hates you and I

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to the best of our ability to the best weekend bless them you said I don't know how I didn't

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either ask God he'll tell you that's who we are as believers Philippians chapter 2 verse 4 tells

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us let each of you look out not only for his own interest but also for the interest of others

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wow and the next thing we see is in verse 2 that it reveals your loyalty when the world speaks ill of

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you cheer up it reveals your loyalty some of us I hope all of us know what it's like to be attacked

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for Jesus sake you ever had people attack you and it's not even you they're attacking it's so obvious

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they hate Jesus man it's it's it's like it's it's branching it up pretty high right now in the world

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around us I'm getting all kinds of hate mail right now I'm being told you need to get a security

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team you're getting these threats these pro pro Hamas pro Hezbollah people are speaking about you

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why what what I do to them well I I was in in Israel and that I I don't know how I didn't I

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didn't like fill out a application for this but in Israel I was voted a number 5 out of 10 the top

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10 Gentiles that stand with Israel I was number 5 and and I thought well that's cool well this

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not everybody else thinks that's cool and and then this article went on to say this guy believes

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what the Bible says this guy believes that Jesus is the Messiah of not only Israel but the Messiah

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of the world this is all true it's true and listen I'm this guy is a Zionist that's true you

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want to know why where where is Zion does anybody know where Zion is it's in Jerusalem you know

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that's where David had his throne on Mount Zion it's a hill for crying out loud oh guess what the

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son of David is going to establish his throne when he returns on a hill called Zion but listen

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when people don't like that they say are you a Zionist it's like yes what of it but we think

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listen if the other people who hate Jesus and hate the word of God and hate you say are you a

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Zionist the way that they frame it you go I don't know I don't know really show it maybe am I

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I don't know what are you doing stand up stand up and say yeah God is so I am too yeah that's right

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God is so I am too so you do you believe in Jesus the Jesus who died on the cross and rose again

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from the dead yet by sure do yes I do why because he's your only hope we're living in an amazing

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age don't be discouraged because every day your loyalty is going to be tested as to who Jesus is in

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your life this is not a time to get scared or weak need it's a time to lovingly stand and say yes

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I love the Lord he's amazing he's been so good to me you should know him too respond in a way

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he says let each of us please his neighbor and for his good leading to edification and that's

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how Jesus is to us Jesus builds us up with with his love and so we should mimic the same and the

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word please here this is a good word for us to to look at the Greek word for to please is to

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make glad is to make glad to create a pleasant atmosphere oh this is cool to set a table as in

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welcoming in a stranger I like that isn't that neat you know some people the one of the gifts of

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the Holy Spirit is the gift of hospitality have you ever seen people with the gift of hospitality

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it's almost so amazing it's uncomfortable you ever been where somebody's got the gift of

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hospitality you walk into their home and it's like the lighting is perfect it smells perfect

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they're so sweet and nice they thought about everything and you want to be there

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and then it's time for you to go home and you don't want to leave because they have the gift of

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hospitality and if they were to say well we have an extra room here okay because you know there's

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going to be a souffle or something in the morning love just comes out of them they care about

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every little thing and if humans can be like that under the possession of the Holy Spirit how much

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more God he loves you and these beautiful things well there's so much wrong in the world of course

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there is but there's so much good also don't know don't don't get fixated on one thing you'll get

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depressed Psalm chapter 23 verse 1 the Lord is my shepherd notice the possessive origin of this

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that by the way see the caps on LORD that's Yahweh Yah in the in the scriptures it's

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Yah Yahweh is my shepherd that's beautiful that's the name of God Yah

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I shall not lack or want he makes me to lie down in green pastures he leads me beside the

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still waters he restores my soul he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake

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yay I've always heard it in my head this way yay yay yay though I walk through the valley of the

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shadow of death listen you're gonna want to remember verse 4 because every single one of us will

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experience verse 4 you will walk through the valley of the shadow of death you say what is it

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like when I breathed my last and I that's what when I die when I body dies is that when I walk

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through the valley of the shadow of death once I die nope listen to walk through the valley of the

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shadow of death is living through this life now and to the moment you breathe your last breath and

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then to be absent from the bodies to be present with the Lord you go home you see Christ God opens up

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the gate says come on in this is what Jesus has done for us it's awesome so yay yay though I walk

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through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil no COVID there for you are with me

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you're brought in your staff they come for me instruction encouragement and discipline comfort me

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you prepare a table here it is before me in the presence of my enemies wow God can give you incredible

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control and peace in the most hostile ugly situation because the spirit of the Lord listen

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is not only where you're at the spirit of the Lord has to be wherever you're at because Jesus

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tells us regarding the fact that the spirit of God dwelling with you new he says I will never leave

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you or forsake you and Jesus does that by the power of the Holy Spirit first Corinthians chapter 9

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verse 19 says for though I am free Paul to speaking from all men in other words nobody can buy me

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says Paul nobody owns me I have made myself a servant to all that I might win the more

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and to the Jews I became as a Jew which is funny he was a Jew why is he saying this because it

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didn't matter to him anymore is this amazing the super Jew Paul was the super Jew

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by the way if you're Jewish today please listen if you're Jewish don't stop being Jewish

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my listen our God's Jewish our Messiah's a Jew if you're Jewish you need to come and meet your Messiah

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man he'll take care of the rest it's amazing to think some people have said Jesus was the first

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Christian do you know what Christian means it means Christ follower and it's also a slang word it

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was a derogatory statement Antioch in Antioch the unbeliever has started making fun of Christians by

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saying look at the little Christians you guys just walk around talking like Jesus acting like

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Jesus oh you're so cute your butt's a little we're gonna call you Christians a little little

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Christ walking around and the Christian said I mean the the the believer said that's we like that

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we're gonna hang on to that no friends Jesus was not the first Christian

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Jesus was the Jew who pointed us to the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob were the Gentiles

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who have been grafted in to the commonwealth of Israel says the scripture so listen if you're

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Jewish you're just a little bit ahead of us you just need to understand that your Messiah is not

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coming for the first time you're not waiting for your Messiah to come for the first time

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he's coming again we're waiting for him to come back and you need to know that you've been

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focusing on the wrong one the Messiah came and died for our sins at the cross rose again from

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the dead and he's coming back so listen Paul says listen when I was hanging out with Jews I

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became like a Jew that I may win Jews to those who are under the law as under the law in other words

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when Paul was hanging out with a bunch of legalistic people he just walked a very straight line with them

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that I might win those who are under the law verse 21 to those who are without the law

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unbelieving or Gentile world as without the law not being without law toward God but under the

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law toward Christ in other words love I'd never I never compromised my love that I might win those

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who are without law to the weak I became as weak that I might win the weak I became all things to

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all men that I might by all means save some is this sweet now this I do for the gospel's sake

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that I may be a partaker of it with you to be the kind of a believer that never compromises truth

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we stand on that unwaveringly like so many things in life it's how we communicate it

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do we communicate the truth of God by the fact that we love other people because we love God first

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and that we minister by carrying one another's love

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