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The speaker begins by announcing their retirement and how they will no longer be in charge of anything. However, they mention that they will still be helping as an assistant to the president for major donors. They talk about their long marriage and how their spouse refuses to make lunch for them. They then mention that they will be discussing the book of Colossians and how the Apostle Paul is trying to teach the church in Colossae to live a full Christian life. The speaker mentions that they are not a theologian but are interested in studying this chapter. They discuss the importance of living a life filled with the Holy Spirit and following Christ's example. The speaker then goes on to talk about the lists that the Apostle Paul makes in the passage and how he wants believers to put off certain behaviors and put on the new man. They conclude by emphasizing that in Christ, there is no distinction between different groups of people. Good morning. Good to see you all in this morning. I am officially retired. I retired on July the 31st, 2024. Dr. Dockery and I have come to the agreement that I will not be running anything else. I will not be in charge of anything else. I will not have to do anything else. As of July the 31st, I am officially retired until he looked at me and said, oh, by the way, said you will help me as an assistant to the president for major donors, right? I said, yes, sir, I will help you. So look, as far as having to drive out to the seminary, I don't have to drive out there unless I want to go. I don't have to attend a meeting unless I want to attend. I don't have to go to anything unless I want to go to it. So it's kind of a, it's your shot. So you tell us when you want to come. That's the second thing. So officially I'm retired. Okay. Officially that this is the fifth time. And I hope in the fifth time is a charm. So it's not a third. Oh, number three, number three. When I met that beautiful thing in the back, that's been married with me, that wonderful woman back there that's been married to me for 68 years. I fell in love with her the first time I saw her, honestly did. Married her a year later. We've been married now for 69 years. And in next July, we'll be 70 years married. She told me the other day, I was at home for the first time for lunch in several, several years. Lunch was not part of the deal. You know, I was supposed to be gone at lunchtime. So Barbara said, she said, you remember when we got married that night, she said, I promised to, I promised that I would love and adore you. And I promised that I would do everything for you. And she said, I will do everything but lunch. So she said, I promise. She said, I promise to do it for better or for worse, but not lunch. So what are y'all having for lunch tomorrow? After I finish at the doctor's office, I'm going to be looking. So anyway, thank you all for the wonderful laughter and joy. We're really looking forward to it. I'm beginning to, I'm beginning to realize that I married a beautiful woman and a wonderful companion and a great friend. We just haven't been able to talk to each other a long time because I get up in the morning, go to work, been doing that since 1956 when we married, 55 and been going to work every day as Jimmy did. And all of a sudden now, Carol Ann, for better or worse, and she's having to do lunch. Okay. In the third chapter of the book of Colossians, I'm going to try to get through 11 verses today if I can. I don't know that I will be able to get that far, but I'm going to try it. This particular chapter is very interesting in the fact that as we study the book of Colossians, there's something that we need to remember. Now, I'm sitting over here talking to my friend, John Mann, who has a degree in theology, and I'm sitting over here talking to my friend, Jimmy Drake, who has a degree in theology. I'm sitting here without one. So, you know, I don't have an MDiv. That's what I'm saying. I don't have that kind of degree. But what I'm interested in seeing as we study this particular chapter, the very same thing that the Apostle Paul was attempting to tell the church in Colossae whom he had never seen. He had never met these people. He only knew them through his helpers who brought the letters back and forth, and many of them who were his helpers in the church of Colossae, including later on Philemon, whom we will study the one chapter in the book of Philemon. He was a member of the church in Colossae. He did not know these people, and yet the interesting thing is as we look at these passages, the Apostle Paul was trying to get the church in Colossae to begin living the full Christian life, full of the Spirit, born again from above, born from the blood of Christ, filled with the Spirit of God, walking on the earth, yet Spirit-filled, with our head and our heart in heaven and our feet on the dirty earth. And we're still here, and yet the Apostle Paul is trying to tell these people in the first century, probably sometime around 65, 66, C.E.A.D., whichever way you want to call it, cemeterial, trying to tell them that they are now that they have come to Christ in personal faith, and they are now born again, and having been born again, they are now full of the Spirit, and they are in Christ, which was Paul's major theme throughout Ephesians and Colossians and Philippians, that will be his theme. And since they're in Christ, then they need to start living as Christ would have lived if he were in us and living out daily life here. And so what he's trying to do in this passage, he's going to do it in three different sequences. He's going to try to help them come to understand that there is a life that has to be lived in faith of Jesus Christ, and that life has to be lived here on the earth, but that life has to be filled with the power of the Spirit that dwells in each one of us. So since the Holy Spirit is indwelling us, and each of us is in Christ, then what the Apostle Paul is going to tell these wonderful Christians at Colossae, these believer friends whom he had never met, what he's going to tell them is, here is the way that you're going to have to operate in the kingdom of God while it is still here on earth. And so I'm just going to read the verses through, through verse 11, and then we'll go back and talk with them a little bit. If then you are raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. Take a moment, mark that verse. Sitting at the right hand of God. We'll talk about that in a few moments. Then he says, set your minds on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. That's the kind of interesting statement that we'll talk about. It says, therefore, since you are going to appear with him in glory, therefore, since that's going to happen while you are here on earth, you need to put off a lot of stuff. And he says, you need to put to death in your members, which are on the earth, these things need to go away. So you're going to need to put these off. You're going to need to put off fornication, uncleanliness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these things, the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. Because the sons of disobedience, unlike you, in the faith, in Christ, with the Holy Spirit, they do not have dwelling in them the power of God. Because of that, the wrath of God is upon them. Now, remember, ladies and gentlemen, the wrath of God was placed upon Christ. Our wrath was placed upon Christ on the cross. He took our wrath. He took the wrath of God for us. He bore our sins to the tree. He took the wrath of God, which should have been given to us, on the tree in order that we might be redeemed through his sacrificial death. And having been redeemed, filled with his Spirit, even as he, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, are constantly engaged with themselves and with us, we are now filled with the Holy Spirit. Because of these things, the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient, in which you also once walked when you lived in them. But now you must also put off these things. And then he makes another note. Now, remember, I've said to you all on several occasions, the Apostle Paul is a great list maker. He makes a lot of lists. And he's going to make three lists in this particular passage. Between now and verse 11, three lists that you can have. He's already made one. He says, put to death, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil, desire, covetousness, idolatry. There's the first list. Now he's going to make a second list. He says, but now you must also put off these things, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth, do not lie to one another since you put off the old man with his deeds. You've got to put these things off. And now, this is a wonderful, rabbinical approach to teaching. The Jewish rabbis did a lot of teaching this way. Of course, the Jewish rabbis made a lot of lists because they had to remember a lot of things. By the way, Barbara never sends me to the grocery store without a list. And guys, don't you go to the store without a list, okay? Because shere's the world, you'll pick up something that she doesn't want. Because I see such good things when I'm there by myself. Got that list, you know, and I said, no, I better not take that. She better not want it. Anyway, you understand, rabbinical activity was great list making. And the Apostle Paul is one of the greatest rabbis who was. And he made lots of lists. Now he's made, he's already made two lists. Both lists are things which we are supposed to put off, get out of our lives. Now we'll go back and tell you how that happens. Then he says in verse 10, and then put on. So this chapter, this particular part of the chapter 1 through 11, is a statement of number one, how Christ indwells us. Number two, how he has filled us. Number three, how he expects us to put off some things. And number four, how he expects us to put on some things. Now the things he wants us to put on are these. He wants you to put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of him who created him where, now this last verse is very interesting, where there is neither Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian or Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all in all. Now what's happening here is the Apostle Paul is writing the study of salvation that he's been giving these people. In the book of Colossians as he did in the book of Ephesians and Philippians and will do in this particular book, he is writing Christian theology which is still being taught, written upon, written about, many, many documents, many, many commentaries. There is no telling how many thousands of pages of material since the first century to the 21st century where we are in 2024. There is no telling, and John May will agree, and Brother Jimmy will agree, and I will agree, there is no telling how many thousands of words have been written on this particular verse and these verses, and they're still trying to encourage the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now in the 21st century, 20 centuries from its beginning, the word of God that Paul wrote in the first century is still attempting to do the same thing for the cross city church in Euless, Texas, better known as First Baptist Church Euless, is still trying to do for First Baptist Church Euless, cross city, still trying to do for them what Paul was trying to do for the church in Colossae in 65 AD. And the material is still coming, and it's still being promoted, still being preached, still being developed, still taught, still becomes a part of what we need to do in order to live a life in Jesus Christ. Now the interesting thing is, in the first verse, there are two heirs' tents, and Brother Jimmy and I always talk with you about these, because that means when that tense happens, it happens one time, never again. Whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That's it. Once you call upon the name of the Lord, there's no more reason to call him again. You are saved at that point. That is an heirs' tent. Now, in the first verse, he says, if then you were raised, how many times are you going to be raised out of your sin? Once. Once and for all. Jesus, at the end of this chapter, at the end of these verses in 11, as the Apostle Paul says, there's no Jew, there's no Greek, there's no barbarian, there's no Scythian, there's no circumcised, there's no uncircumcised, there is no free, no bond. Jesus is all in all. So Jesus is all. And so since he is all, then we are free. So you are raised one time with Christ, therefore seek those things which are above where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. Now, this is kind of interesting. Are you aware of the fact that in the Bible, there are 127 verses that talk about Jesus sitting at the right hand of God. 127 verses. Now, about 87 to 88% of those verses are in the New Testament. And many of those verses are in the Epistles. Some are in the Gospels. For instance, in the Gospels, it says, seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added to you. So you're sitting in heaven. In the book of Ephesians, when we were studying the book of Ephesians, it says, and you are, and it is a present tense, you are seated with Christ in heaven right now. I wrote a little note on the side of my paper. When did we go to heaven? When did you go to heaven? The day you were saved. You say, well, I'm still here. I understand that, and you understand it also. But we also understand the spiritual nature of what I just said. When you are regenerated, when you were saved by the blood of Christ, that day you went to sit with him in heavenly places. Now, that's kind of an interesting word, sit, because only rulers, potentates, kings, and wonderfully, wonderfully great people sit down in the presence of God. Everybody else stands. It's kind of interesting. Every time we saints are talked about in those 127 passages of scripture, we are always sitting with Christ and God. That position means you are an adopted child. That means that you are a brother and sister of Christ. That means that you are a born again believer who has been adopted into the family of God through the blood of Jesus Christ. Now, since you were raised, and that's when you went, since you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above. All right. So now that we know we are sitting at the right hand of God, we need to begin thinking about something, and the Apostle Paul is telling this church in Colossae, which he is now telling the church at Cross City, he's saying set your minds on things above. Quit putting your minds on things down here on the earth. For you see, it's kind of interesting, during our conversion and our baptism, coming into the kingdom of God, it said after you do that, keep on seeking him. And that's another kind of verb. It's the kind of verb that just keeps on going all the time. It's like a ribbon. It's just punching all the time. So it says, and since you are in him, keep on seeking him. Every day is the process of the Christian life. So set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. Now here comes the second heiress. For you died. How many times have you died? Once. For you died to self and become alive to Christ. Now it's kind of interesting. In the word of God, most of us will die twice. Most of us will die twice. Most of us will die twice here. Now the one way you die here is on a human side. Another way you die here is on a spiritual side. And the most important of the two dying processes is not the human, but the spiritual. And so that we understand that we must, in order to continue living in the kingdom of God, die to self here, in order that we might live to him there. If we don't die to self here and come alive to Christ, then we will not be with him there. And so it's that heiress verb. And you died. Now, ladies and gentlemen, it's difficult to say to yourself, I looked at these lists, and these two lists that he puts down here are pretty significant lists. And they are pretty significant in what appears to have been, in my past, when I was outside the kingdom of God, a very firm list of activities in which I participated. And I'm wondering now, is that list, or parts of it, or some of it, still a part of my life to which I have died? Now I've told you on several occasions that Billy Sunday, who was the stevedore on the docks of Chicago, one of the most vile men that you have ever met in your entire life, filthy mouth, filthy talking, fighting all the time, fought anybody who wanted to fight Billy and fight him. And one day Billy Sunday was saved. I don't mean partially. I mean Billy Sunday died to Billy Sunday. And on the day that Billy Sunday was converted, he said to a friend of his, on that day I lost 75% of my vocabulary. Now you think about that. And so now the Apostle Paul is getting ready to tell these people, you realize that you're dead. And that's hard for some of us to get into our heads. Because, and I'm sitting here looking at you, you look alive to me. And I hope I look alive to you. But the process is not a physical death we're talking about, it's talking about that spiritual death into which all of us who are believers in the kingdom of God have entered into the kingdom of God having died, having been raised, having been taken in, sitting at the right hand of God is Jesus Christ. And guess who's sitting at the right hand of Jesus Christ? Say it. Say me. Say me. Say it. Me. You are sitting at the right hand of Jesus Christ. It's not what I said, it's what Ephesians said. Ephesians said, you are sitting at the right hand of Jesus Christ in the heavens. Where? This doesn't look like the heavens to me. But we are sitting together in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. Now, the Apostle Paul is saying, coming to full understanding of what it means to have died to self, and what it means to have come alive to Christ, you need to come to understand that our activities in this particular world need to be adjusted so that our activities are not the activities which are primarily of the earth but our activities in the two lists that we're going to talk about our activities are those which are opposite to the two lists they are because we are no longer of the earth but you are of heaven you're no longer of this earth and that's difficult to really comprehend when we come to understand that we are born again believers in the presence of eternal God forever and so to that end, the Apostle Paul is saying to this wonderful church there are some activities out here which you are going to have to do away with the corruption of what you have been doing in the past and if any of that is still hanging on as some said hang on to Billy Sunday you're going to have to get rid of that as well and it is a group of corrupt activities which are so much a part of the earth that even after we become a part of the kingdom often times those things still trap back into us and come up again when we least expect them, look what he says when Christ is our life and appears then you also will appear with him did you hear that? this is kind of interesting we are now with Christ in heavenly places we are now in the kingdom of God sitting at the right hand of God because we're sitting there, if Christ is there and we are joint heirs with him where are we? are we not there also? and since we are joint heirs with him and we're sitting there in heavenly places with him and we're right there with him now in our spiritual life you know it's kind of interesting Barbara gets mad at me every now and then because I'll say you know what sweetie if I can be sitting right here and if my mind can be New York City watching the Rangers play the Yankees I don't need the television I can send my mind over there or you know if I want to think about that beautiful island where we and George are drinking coffee on the island of San Francisco I can send my mind over there do you all realize how wonderful your mind is and how far you can send it how far you'll be able to send it when you get to heaven when you are as he is and as the apostle Paul said in 13 we will know even as we are known wow when we get to heaven I don't have to think about Saturday I can be there now here I can think about it and I can pull up all the pictures I've seen of it but when I'm there I can be there now this is what Paul is saying to these people there are going to be some trappings in your life having been saved that you're going to have to do away with you are going to and he uses a death word he says you are going to have to mortify that means kill he said these things are corrupt and they've been in your life for so long and if you don't watch out they're going to continue to stay there if you don't mortify the deeds of the flesh and when he's talking about mortifying the deeds of the flesh ladies and gentlemen he's talking about killing them he's not talking about playing with them and thinking they may have died he's talking about killing them and so he says here because those things which I'm telling you need to get out of your life totally those are the things that are still going to pull the wrath of God on a bunch of other people who are not believing them but the wrath of God is off of you as a born again believer the wrath of God was put on him on the cross the wrath of God was meted out to Jesus on the cross we do not take the wrath of God we take the blessings of Christ but now he says because these things which you used to do and some of them are still hanging on you need to mortify them in the flesh you need to kill them and so he starts talking about them he says because here they are let me talk to you about some of them he says here's what you need to put to death in your members which are on earth wrote down these little things here in order of desires fornication uncleanness passion which is uncontrolled evil desires which is beyond compassion beyond passion and covetousness greed and when you get to greed you are working you are working in idolatry and I said now these are the eight things that have been a very strong part of your life before Christ now he is saying dear Colossian church look at these eight things and determine which of these still need to be mortified which ones need to be killed which ones need to be removed from your present life in order that Christ might reign in your body supremely if Paul had not made these lists would you have known what they were maybe some of them maybe two or three of them but not sixteen of them you see we got eight here we will get eight more in a minute he gives us two lists and the first list is fornication uncleanness, passion, evil desire, covetousness which is idolatry and then he says oh and by the way but now since you are in Christ let me tell you some more you got to put away hey Paul wasn't it enough in the first list I mean that is a pretty formidable group of things I got to do away with and now you are going to give me a second list yeah and look what is in the second list anger, wrath malice blasphemies filthy language and lying since you have put off the old man with his deeds also put off these things as well Paul listen very carefully someone says okay Jack how do I do that what is the practical application of getting rid of these sixteen things how can I spiritually mortify these deeds of the flesh which need to be put away I am going to ask you one question and the answer to that question is going to answer the question here how did you come to Jesus Christ to be saved by what by faith now if you came to Jesus Christ by faith and we did and in exercising faith he was able to cancel all of the writings of ugliness against you and he nailed them to the cross if he was able by faith to take all of the ugly writings that God has in your book in heaven that he wrote down every day that you did them and Jesus in his redemptive process was able to nail all of our ungodliness to the tree if he was able to do that by faith how can he get rid of your problems same way let me ask you a question my sweetheart back there was saved when she was 5 Barbara was saved when she was 5 she and I have had over 70 years I want to talk about that because I was 17 before I was saved and I said sugar 5 is mighty young do you really think that you were saved she said Jack I have no doubt about it I have not one single doubt and over the years that we have been living together I said that to her several times you mean to tell me that at 5 years of age you knew you were saved and I knew at 5 years of age I was saved and I knew that my sins were forgiven and I knew that my sins were forgiven forever and I was saved and I did it by faith if you can get rid of all of your sins by faith how do you think you are going to get rid of these 16 by faith okay Lord you know every now and then I get kind of greedy you know dear Lord I really need to put that thing to death Lord you know every now and again my passions grow up and kind of I am not careful to get out of control and all of us know that the computer and AI isn't helping us a bit if you want passion just go pick up the computer you can have all the passion you want you know that I am not telling you anything you don't know but how can that be done away with Lord how can I get rid of the fact that I am Irish and I get mad easy and my fuse is about that big and though I put it under control Barbara has never seen my fuse go off and I hope in her life she never will it went off several times before I met her and when I was growing off it went off a lot of times but I have a very strong anger background and a very strong Irish background of a grandfather and a great grandfather who were ugly Irishmen and I have that anger and how do I get rid of that anger you get rid of it the same way you got salvation that's what people try to make redemption so hard redemption and salvation is not hard at all most people don't believe it because it is so easy how many people have said to you all I have to do is say Lord Jesus I am a sinner come into my life and he will save me don't I have to go to church no don't I have to read the bible no don't I have to go dunk somewhere no don't I need to do something to help him no you mean he is going to do it all yeah he is all in all now here they are and he said Colossian church put these sixteen off get them off and you do it by what now I don't know which of if I am counting right I don't know which of these sixteen are your problems I know which of the sixteen are my problems and I know which of the sixteen I had to turn off and if you read through these again you will come to the conclusion that you know which of these sixteen you need to turn off because it's not an option do you understand dear Christian friends it is not this is not an option this is a command the apostle Paul didn't say if you feel like it stop doing this once in a while he didn't say that he said put off period what part of put off do you not understand you got it so now which part of these two lists that this rabbinical rabbi was able to put together they are two different lists by the way and there is some pretty ugly stuff in these eight sixteen pretty bad and Paul said you got to get rid of it it's no longer part of you Billy Sunday you got to get rid of it and then he says here in verse ten however let me help you understand what you need to put on he said put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of him who created him put on Jesus Christ if any man wants to be saved if any man is in Christ he is a what a new creation not a new creature 2 Corinthians 5 17 says if any man is in Christ he is a new creation all things are passed away by what say it in fact some people hey just faith it don't face it just faith it if you got a problem don't face it just put faith into it and the apostle Paul said put on the new man who was developed in Christ now if you want to talk about the new man go read chapter 15 and in 15 when you get down around 45 46 48 50 you start talking about the first Adam and the second Adam you start talking about the first man and the second man and you talk about how the first man was sin and devastation and the second man was redemption and life and you talk about how in the one you had life and in the other you had death go read 1 Corinthians 15 can you understand all what he is talking about here in Jesus Christ there is newness of life all of which is put out of your life and my life by faith you can no way get rid of these things by yourself no more than an iron bar can lift itself up off the earth if a thousand pound iron bar was sitting right here it would be easier for that iron bar to lift itself up off the earth in our gravity than it would be for you to get rid of your problems by yourself but you are not by yourself we are in Christ and since we are in Christ then we are in God and since we are in God then we are filled with the Holy Spirit and since we are filled with the Holy Spirit we have all we have all power super superpower anyone who is in Christ has super superpower outside of Christ you have nothing in Christ ladies and gentlemen we have it all and you know it is kind of interesting the apostle Paul says because what happened in Jesus Christ is there is no Greek and there is no Jew they are gone there is no circumcision or uncircumcision it is gone there is no barbarian no Scythian the barbarian was the only one the Scythian was the one who was greatly educated there is no slave there is no free it is gone it is gone and since it is gone then Christ who is our life is all in all and I close there was a man that lived out here by us for a long time many of you may have seen him I had the privilege of meeting him on several occasions I had the privilege of doing a wedding for one of his members because he would not do a wedding for them because he had a very strong conviction that if someone had been divorced he would not remarry them and I have basically the same conviction but I understand problems and there are some problems that you need to help anyway I got to meet him often because I was dealing with him because I wanted him to know I was marrying his member I didn't want to get on his territory oh by the way he pastored a little church over here in West Allen in West Fort Worth called Rockwood Park a sibling of God oh in 1964 he wrote a wonderful gospel song the cross upon which Jesus died is a shelter in which we can hide and his blood flows free is sufficient for me and deep is the fountain as wide as the sea there is room at the cross for you Greek, Jew, circumcised, uncircumcised Barbarian, Scythian free there is room at the cross for you though millions have come there is still room for one there is room at the cross that guy's name was Ira Stemple Ira wrote other songs that you sang too but you didn't know it how many of you have ever sung I'm satisfied with a cottage below a little silver and a little gold but in that city where the ransom will shine I've got a gold one that silver line sing it with me I've got a come on in that bright city we'll never grow old and someday yonder we'll never more wander but walk the streets of the purest you just sang Ira Stemple's song oh have you ever sang come home come home it's supper time the clouds are gathering fast come home come home it's supper time the king has come at last supper time he wrote that one too but the one you don't know that he wrote I don't know about tomorrow I just live from day to day I can't worry about tomorrow for the clouds will pass away Ira Stemple he lived right over here he was our neighbor he died with brain cancer in 1993 he was my good friend and Ira understood one thing which I'm hoping in this lesson you have come to understand today Paul is teaching us a theology which has now come all the way to the 21st century and that theology is you can do nothing of yourself but everything you need to do can be done through him by faith ok now the second part of this chapter next week is what Paul calls his practical section he could tell you men how to take care of your wives he could tell you slave owners I want to talk to some of you slave owners about taking care of your slaves but this week we're talking about faith and how do you die to self and come alive to Jesus Christ it is by faith for by faith Abraham by faith Noah by faith David by faith and if you understand nobody in the Old Testament or the New Testament ever came to God outside of faith God never changed his plan in the Old Testament you had to have faith in the New Testament you must have faith and so now we live by faith and not by sight Amen Heavenly Father we thank you for people who can share with us wonderful words that mean so very much in our heart but they're the words that we all found together in the word of God because when I found you as Lord he too came the same way we did he came by faith and all of these people that were in the church of Colossae came to know you through these wonderful helpers that Paul had there working with them they came the same way these folk came and we came by faith so without faith it is impossible to please God those who come by faith will and Father we thank you for that now bless us this week as we look at our lives as we look at these 16 problems that were brought over from the other wives that are still kind of hanging on a little bit still kind of dirtying the bottoms of our shoes and still kind of hanging on in the backs of our minds we pray that you might allow us by faith to mortify them and put them to death so help us Father to put to death mortify the deeds in the body so that we might come to understand that Jesus Christ is all in all thank you Father in Jesus name Amen see you next Sunday
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