Pastor Hector Pineda (Gal 6:14:18) Instrucciones Finales
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Well, we had to extend it for'}, {'start': '34.640', 'end': '41.960', 'text': 'another week, and if you look at the'}, {'start': '38.160', 'end': '43.960', 'text': 'bulletin you have, the topic is'}, {'start': '43.960', 'end': '50.079', 'text': 'final instructions, and although it sounds like'}, {'start': '46.960', 'end': '52.480', 'text': "there's a list of instructions from"}, {'start': '50.079', 'end': '54.760', 'text': "the apostle Paul, the truth is there isn't one"}, {'start': '52.480', 'end': '56.840', 'text': '.  There are one or two things that the'}, {'start': '54.760', 'end': '59.800', 'text': 'apostle mentions, but what he does'}, {'start': '56.840', 'end': '62.320', 'text': 'mention is there is a'}, {'start': '59.800', 'end': '64.760', 'text': 'rule of the Christian walk that'}, {'start': '62.320', 'end': '66.479', 'text': 'we are going to look at in verse 16.'}, {'start': '64.760', 'end': '71.320', 'text': 'There is a rule according to those who'}, {'start': '66.479', 'end': '74.080', 'text': 'walk by this rule, grace and peace,'}, {'start': '71.320', 'end': '77.159', 'text': 'forgiveness, peace and mercy be to them'}, {'start': '74.080', 'end': '79.640', 'text': "and to and to the Israel of God.  So, we're going to be"}, {'start': '77.159', 'end': '85.040', 'text': 'reading again verses'}, {'start': '79.640', 'end': '88.119', 'text': "14 to 18 of the apostle Paul's letter to"}, {'start': '85.040', 'end': '90.040', 'text': 'these Galatian brothers who had'}, {'start': '88.119', 'end': '92.119', 'text': 'opened their ears to hear another'}, {'start': '90.040', 'end': '93.759', 'text': 'gospel.  And the apostle Paul in the'}, {'start': '92.119', 'end': '97.079', 'text': 'introduction says, "There is no other'}, {'start': '93.759', 'end': '99.520', 'text': 'gospel, but many are walking around'}, {'start': '97.079', 'end': '100.960', 'text': 'who want to pervert the gospel of'}, {'start': '99.520', 'end': '104.799', 'text': 'Christ."  So let\'s read from'}, {'start': '100.960', 'end': '107.719', 'text': 'verse 14. But God forbid that I should'}, {'start': '104.799', 'end': '109.799', 'text': 'boast except in the cross of our'}, {'start': '107.719', 'end': '113.119', 'text': 'Lord Jesus Christ, through'}, {'start': '109.799', 'end': '116.840', 'text': 'whom the world has been crucified to me, and'}, {'start': '113.119', 'end': '119.640', 'text': 'I to the world.  For in Christ Jesus neither'}, {'start': '116.840', 'end': '123.520', 'text': 'circumcision'}, {'start': '119.640', 'end': '126.360', 'text': 'nor uncircumcision has any value, but'}, {'start': '123.520', 'end': '129.360', 'text': 'the new creation counts.'}, {'start': '126.360', 'end': '134.360', 'text': 'and to all who walk according to this'}, {'start': '129.360', 'end': '137.360', 'text': 'rule.  Peace and mercy be upon them and upon the'}, {'start': '134.360', 'end': '139.680', 'text': 'Israel of'}, {'start': '137.360', 'end': '142.680', 'text': 'God.  From now'}, {'start': '139.680', 'end': '145.560', 'text': 'on, let no one'}, {'start': '142.680', 'end': '148.200', 'text': 'bother me, because I bear on my body'}, {'start': '145.560', 'end': '150.840', 'text': 'the marks of the Lord'}, {'start': '148.200', 'end': '152.840', 'text': 'Jesus.  And there is a final blessing,'}, {'start': '150.840', 'end': '155.680', 'text': 'brothers.'}, {'start': '152.840', 'end': '159.760', 'text': 'The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ'}, {'start': '155.680', 'end': '162.480', 'text': 'be with your spirit.  Amen.  We pray,'}, {'start': '159.760', 'end': '164.720', 'text': 'blessed God and our Father,'}, {'start': '162.480', 'end': '167.680', 'text': 'who dwells'}, {'start': '164.720', 'end': '170.680', 'text': 'in those who have trusted in your'}, {'start': '167.680', 'end': '174.000', 'text': 'name for the salvation of their'}, {'start': '170.680', 'end': '176.920', 'text': 'souls.  You who'}, {'start': '174.000', 'end': '180.200', 'text': 'are the creator and sustainer of all'}, {'start': '176.920', 'end': '182.680', 'text': 'things, we come before you, Lord,'}, {'start': '180.200', 'end': '184.599', 'text': 'once again in prayer.'}, {'start': '182.680', 'end': '186.640', 'text': 'to thank you for the opportunity'}, {'start': '184.599', 'end': '191.519', 'text': 'you have given us, Lord, to come to this'}, {'start': '186.640', 'end': '194.000', 'text': 'place and gather together as a church.   We'}, {'start': '191.519', 'end': '197.640', 'text': 'thank you, Lord,'}, {'start': '194.000', 'end': '199.799', 'text': 'because over the months we have been reading'}, {'start': '197.640', 'end': '203.120', 'text': 'this letter'}, {'start': '199.799', 'end': '205.799', 'text': 'from the Apostle Paul to the Galatians, we have'}, {'start': '203.120', 'end': '208.920', 'text': 'learned many things, not only about what'}, {'start': '205.799', 'end': '210.720', 'text': 'they were experiencing and what was happening'}, {'start': '208.920', 'end': '213.959', 'text': 'among them, but also, Lord,'}, {'start': '210.720', 'end': '216.360', 'text': 'we have been taught'}, {'start': '213.959', 'end': '218.159', 'text': 'for our lives today,'}, {'start': '216.360', 'end': '221.640', 'text': 'in our own context.  And we ask you,'}, {'start': '218.159', 'end': '223.760', 'text': 'Lord, that all those things that are'}, {'start': '221.640', 'end': '226.840', 'text': 'practical for us, may we be able to'}, {'start': '223.760', 'end': '231.159', 'text': 'carry them'}, {'start': '226.840', 'end': '234.480', 'text': 'out.  We have learned, Lord, what'}, {'start': '231.159', 'end': '238.079', 'text': 'the works of the flesh are, Lord, in'}, {'start': '234.480', 'end': '240.439', 'text': 'chapter 5 and what the fruit of the'}, {'start': '238.079', 'end': '243.079', 'text': 'Spirit is,'}, {'start': '240.439', 'end': '247.280', 'text': 'Lord.  And both'}, {'start': '243.079', 'end': '252.079', 'text': 'things at their given'}, {'start': '247.280', 'end': '254.239', 'text': 'moment become part of us.'}, {'start': '252.079', 'end': '257.280', 'text': 'But we, Lord, pray in the'}, {'start': '254.239', 'end': '259.840', 'text': 'name of Jesus Christ, your beloved Son, that you'}, {'start': '257.280', 'end': '262.840', 'text': 'give us, Lord, the ability, the'}, {'start': '259.840', 'end': '262.840', 'text': 'courage, the'}, {'start': '263.040', 'end': '270.039', 'text': 'power,'}, {'start': '266.440', 'end': '272.039', 'text': 'Lord, to show all the fruit of the'}, {'start': '270.039', 'end': '275.000', 'text': 'Spirit in our lives.'}, {'start': '272.039', 'end': '277.600', 'text': 'We understand, Lord, that there is a struggle and'}, {'start': '275.000', 'end': '280.880', 'text': 'we depend, Lord, on you in that struggle'}, {'start': '277.600', 'end': '285.560', 'text': 'to be victorious,'}, {'start': '280.880', 'end': '285.560', 'text': 'Lord.  We ask you, Lord, to be with'}, {'start': '286.320', 'end': '292.919', 'text': 'us for the glory of your'}, {'start': '289.080', 'end': '294.600', 'text': 'name.  Bless our children.'}, {'start': '292.919', 'end': '296.560', 'text': 'Eh, we ask you, Lord, for the offering'}, {'start': '294.600', 'end': '300.840', 'text': 'that has also been collected, that you'}, {'start': '296.560', 'end': '303.919', 'text': 'bless the hands that administer'}, {'start': '300.840', 'end': '308.199', 'text': 'it.  And Lord, we ask you for those who'}, {'start': '303.919', 'end': '312.160', 'text': 'are tired, Lord, of the'}, {'start': '308.199', 'end': '316.400', 'text': 'life they have led,'}, {'start': '312.160', 'end': '318.600', 'text': 'Lord, that you strengthen them.'}, {'start': '316.400', 'end': '320.600', 'text': 'Allow us to be able to show'}, {'start': '318.600', 'end': '322.160', 'text': 'mercy, as we saw,'}, {'start': '320.600', 'end': '325.720', 'text': 'we heard now,'}, {'start': '322.160', 'end': '328.520', 'text': 'Lord, the letter of James 2:13.  Judgment'}, {'start': '325.720', 'end': '331.520', 'text': 'and mercy will be shown to those who have'}, {'start': '328.520', 'end': '334.560', 'text': 'not shown mercy.'}, {'start': '331.520', 'end': '336.600', 'text': 'Therefore, Lord, help us not to'}, {'start': '334.560', 'end': '339.160', 'text': 'believe, Lord, that we are at a level'}, {'start': '336.600', 'end': '341.680', 'text': 'where we already belong to a'}, {'start': '339.160', 'end': '343.319', 'text': 'different elite.  Allow, Lord, that'}, {'start': '341.680', 'end': '344.639', 'text': 'through Scripture we may see'}, {'start': '343.319', 'end': '347.479', 'text': 'our own'}, {'start': '344.639', 'end': '350.240', 'text': 'sin and based on that, Lord, we'}, {'start': '347.479', 'end': '353.319', 'text': 'may extend mercy, because'}, {'start': '350.240', 'end': '355.919', 'text': 'we ourselves are, have been, have'}, {'start': '353.319', 'end': '357.479', 'text': 'and must be vessels of'}, {'start': '355.919', 'end': '360.000', 'text': 'mercy.'}, {'start': '357.479', 'end': '363.080', 'text': 'Lord, allow us, Lord, to'}, {'start': '360.000', 'end': '365.520', 'text': 'live before the reality that while'}, {'start': '363.080', 'end': '367.960', 'text': 'we are not'}, {'start': '365.520', 'end': '370.800', 'text': 'glorified, mercy is something'}, {'start': '367.960', 'end': '373.759', 'text': 'we'}, {'start': '370.800', 'end': '376.440', 'text': 'constantly need to live before you,'}, {'start': '373.759', 'end': '379.160', 'text': 'Lord.  We pray these things in the name'}, {'start': '376.440', 'end': '384.160', 'text': 'of Jesus.'}, {'start': '379.160', 'end': '384.160', 'text': 'Amen.  You may take your seats.'}, {'start': '385.280', 'end': '389.240', 'text': 'As I said last week,'}, {'start': '389.240', 'end': '395.199', 'text': "my intention was to conclude the letter, which I don't"}, {'start': '393.160', 'end': '397.479', 'text': 'know if anyone has taken note of, but for'}, {'start': '395.199', 'end': '400.960', 'text': 'those who have, we began this letter on'}, {'start': '397.479', 'end': '403.880', 'text': 'July 24th of last year.   They have'}, {'start': '400.960', 'end': '406.479', 'text': 'already been, what?  six, 7 months, five,'}, {'start': '403.880', 'end': '408.280', 'text': 'because I was away for two.  But it has been'}, {'start': '406.479', 'end': '411.639', 'text': 'a time in which we have been'}, {'start': '408.280', 'end': '414.160', 'text': 'learning, not only the problem'}, {'start': '411.639', 'end': '416.800', 'text': 'that arose at that time,'}, {'start': '414.160', 'end': '420.840', 'text': 'why Paul was motivated to speak, to which'}, {'start': '416.800', 'end': '423.440', 'text': 'the apostle Paul even found himself, uh,'}, {'start': '420.840', 'end': '426.479', 'text': 'in the need to confront'}, {'start': '423.440', 'end': '428.280', 'text': 'some of those who called them'}, {'start': '426.479', 'end': '430.039', 'text': 'brothers.  Do you remember those three'}, {'start': '428.280', 'end': '433.039', 'text': 'men when he had to go to the'}, {'start': '430.039', 'end': '436.199', 'text': 'church in Jerusalem and they were there'}, {'start': '433.039', 'end': '438.360', 'text': 'discussing what the gospel was and'}, {'start': '436.199', 'end': '440.360', 'text': 'the apostle Paul at a certain point'}, {'start': '438.360', 'end': '442.520', 'text': 'tells them, "Hey, I\'ve come and I have to'}, {'start': '440.360', 'end': '445.039', 'text': 'meet with you apart, that is, in'}, {'start': '442.520', 'end': '446.680', 'text': "private, because I don't want to realize"}, {'start': '445.039', 'end': '449.240', 'text': "that I'm running, brother, in vain. It"}, {'start': '446.680', 'end': '451.639', 'text': "might be that I'm preaching one"}, {'start': '449.240', 'end': '455.400', 'text': "thing and you're preaching another"}, {'start': '451.639', 'end': '457.840', 'text': 'thing."  So, this happens.  Then, when'}, {'start': '455.400', 'end': '460.560', 'text': 'they saw that these, considered to be'}, {'start': '457.840', 'end': '462.840', 'text': 'pillars, were preaching the same gospel of'}, {'start': '460.560', 'end': '465.000', 'text': 'Christ, they said to'}, {'start': '462.840', 'end': '467.360', 'text': 'Paul and Barnabas. What did they say?'}, {'start': '465.000', 'end': '469.159', 'text': 'They gave them their right hands as a sign of'}, {'start': '467.360', 'end': '471.080', 'text': 'camaraderie.  They told him, "Okay,'}, {'start': '469.159', 'end': '473.599', 'text': 'fine. The same message, the same'}, {'start': '471.080', 'end': '475.479', 'text': "gospel, it's the same cross, it's the same"}, {'start': '473.599', 'end': '477.120', 'text': "Christ that we're"}, {'start': '475.479', 'end': '480.280', 'text': 'preaching."  So all we'}, {'start': '477.120', 'end': '483.440', 'text': "ask of you is that you don't forget the"}, {'start': '480.280', 'end': '484.720', 'text': 'poor.  And he and the apostle Paul says,'}, {'start': '483.440', 'end': '487.759', 'text': '"Which we'}, {'start': '484.720', 'end': '490.240', 'text': 'diligently endeavor to do."'}, {'start': '487.759', 'end': '494.039', 'text': 'So, all of this occurs in the context'}, {'start': '490.240', 'end': '494.039', 'text': 'of what Paul had to'}, {'start': '494.720', 'end': '500.199', 'text': 'do, on the one hand, but on the'}, {'start': '497.319', 'end': '503.240', 'text': 'other hand, in my personal opinion,'}, {'start': '500.199', 'end': '506.080', 'text': 'during these months that we have been'}, {'start': '503.240', 'end': '509.440', 'text': 'studying the letter, we have learned'}, {'start': '506.080', 'end': '512.279', 'text': 'several principles that should'}, {'start': '509.440', 'end': '515.159', 'text': 'help us in our context, in'}, {'start': '512.279', 'end': '517.440', 'text': 'our uh in our'}, {'start': '515.159', 'end': '518.599', 'text': 'present, in the time in which we'}, {'start': '518.599', 'end': '524.039', 'text': 'live.  Because if it is a reality that the'}, {'start': '521.560', 'end': '525.959', 'text': 'apostle Paul had to fight'}, {'start': '524.039', 'end': '528.800', 'text': 'ardently for the faith and had to'}, {'start': '525.959', 'end': '533.480', 'text': 'confront men who went around with the'}, {'start': '528.800', 'end': '536.000', 'text': 'banner of Christians preaching the'}, {'start': '533.480', 'end': '537.160', 'text': 'gospel, we too have'}, {'start': '536.000', 'end': '540.480', 'text': 'had to'}, {'start': '537.160', 'end': '543.920', 'text': 'live in a'}, {'start': '540.480', 'end': '544.640', 'text': 'context in which the reality is no'}, {'start': '544.640', 'end': '551.839', 'text': 'different.  There are men who come and stand'}, {'start': '548.399', 'end': '554.760', 'text': 'behind a pulpit saying they are'}, {'start': '551.839', 'end': '560.360', 'text': 'preaching the gospel, but when'}, {'start': '554.760', 'end': '560.360', 'text': 'you look at their teachings it is a false'}, {'start': '560.640', 'end': '565.519', 'text': 'gospel.  And the'}, {'start': '562.839', 'end': '566.680', 'text': 'first thing I would like to say before'}, {'start': '566.680', 'end': '572.640', 'text': 'closing,'}, {'start': '569.640', 'end': '576.560', 'text': 'is that in the midst of any'}, {'start': '572.640', 'end': '580.040', 'text': 'circumstance, the church may find itself'}, {'start': '576.560', 'end': '583.440', 'text': 'threatened by figures who'}, {'start': '580.040', 'end': '587.560', 'text': 'want to obscure the gospel of Christ, and'}, {'start': '583.440', 'end': '590.640', 'text': 'even more so, no matter how tempted the church'}, {'start': '587.560', 'end': '591.800', 'text': 'may be to be swept away by any'}, {'start': '590.640', 'end': '595.160', 'text': 'wind of'}, {'start': '591.800', 'end': '597.880', 'text': 'doctrine.  The gates of Hades will not'}, {'start': '595.160', 'end': '600.600', 'text': 'prevail against the'}, {'start': '597.880', 'end': '603.800', 'text': 'church.  The gates of hell will not'}, {'start': '600.600', 'end': '605.320', 'text': 'prevail against the church,'}, {'start': '603.800', 'end': '608.120', 'text': 'because the'}, {'start': '605.320', 'end': '611.040', 'text': 'plan of that church is not a'}, {'start': '608.120', 'end': '614.920', 'text': 'human plan.  The plan has been orchestrated by'}, {'start': '611.040', 'end': '616.600', 'text': 'God and in the end of all things he'}, {'start': '614.920', 'end': '618.640', 'text': 'rules.'}, {'start': '616.600', 'end': '622.160', 'text': 'So what I want to emphasize in this'}, {'start': '618.640', 'end': '626.079', 'text': 'closing of the letter is the'}, {'start': '622.160', 'end': '629.920', 'text': 'faithfulness of the love, grace, and'}, {'start': '626.079', 'end': '633.320', 'text': 'mercy of our God.'}, {'start': '629.920', 'end': '636.000', 'text': 'We can wander, even individually,'}, {'start': '633.320', 'end': '639.600', 'text': 'we could wander through the'}, {'start': '636.000', 'end': '639.600', 'text': 'densest darkness.'}, {'start': '641.120', 'end': '647.240', 'text': 'Our convictions could pale'}, {'start': '644.720', 'end': '647.240', 'text': 'in comparison to'}, {'start': '647.360', 'end': '653.440', 'text': 'lies.  We might be tempted by'}, {'start': '650.079', 'end': '657.200', 'text': 'our human weakness to deny our'}, {'start': '653.440', 'end': '658.519', 'text': 'faith, we might navigate through evil, through'}, {'start': '657.200', 'end': '662.079', 'text': 'the sea of'}, {'start': '658.519', 'end': '664.959', 'text': 'affliction, and enter into doubts.  We could have'}, {'start': '662.079', 'end': '668.519', 'text': 'given in to temptation.  we could'}, {'start': '664.959', 'end': '671.000', 'text': 'forget our first love with the'}, {'start': '668.519', 'end': '673.720', 'text': 'Lord.  But in the midst of all these'}, {'start': '671.000', 'end': '676.480', 'text': 'things, the Lord will always show his'}, {'start': '673.720', 'end': '679.880', 'text': 'patience and always show his'}, {'start': '676.480', 'end': '682.639', 'text': 'mercy and will sustain us until'}, {'start': '679.880', 'end': '685.040', 'text': 'the end in the same way he'}, {'start': '682.639', 'end': '688.000', 'text': 'has promised.  Amen.'}, {'start': '685.040', 'end': '691.959', 'text': 'Jude 1:24 teaches this.  And he who is'}, {'start': '688.000', 'end': '695.720', 'text': 'able to keep you from'}, {'start': '691.959', 'end': '699.000', 'text': 'falling and to present you blameless before'}, {'start': '695.720', 'end': '702.320', 'text': 'his glory with great joy and ends'}, {'start': '699.000', 'end': '706.160', 'text': 'with praise to the only wise God,'}, {'start': '702.320', 'end': '709.839', 'text': 'our Savior.  Be glory and majesty,'}, {'start': '706.160', 'end': '712.279', 'text': 'empire and power now and'}, {'start': '709.839', 'end': '716.120', 'text': 'forever.  Amen.'}, {'start': '712.279', 'end': '718.800', 'text': 'you have considered and embraced the'}, {'start': '716.120', 'end': '722.760', 'text': 'gospel.  You can be sure that you'}, {'start': '718.800', 'end': '725.040', 'text': "will not fall from the Lord's hand.  The"}, {'start': '722.760', 'end': '728.519', 'text': 'Gospel of John, chapter 10, teaches'}, {'start': '725.040', 'end': '730.880', 'text': 'about these things over and over again.  What'}, {'start': '728.519', 'end': '733.440', 'text': 'the Father has given me, no one will snatch out'}, {'start': '730.880', 'end': '734.720', 'text': 'of my hand.  My sheep hear my voice and'}, {'start': '733.440', 'end': '737.199', 'text': 'they'}, {'start': '734.720', 'end': '739.720', 'text': "follow me.  So that's one of the things"}, {'start': '737.199', 'end': '742.120', 'text': 'I want to highlight.  Eh,'}, {'start': '739.720', 'end': '744.480', 'text': 'what I also want to highlight'}, {'start': '742.120', 'end': '747.160', 'text': 'is that future blessing that'}, {'start': '744.480', 'end': '749.880', 'text': 'the apostle Paul himself mentions, that'}, {'start': '747.160', 'end': '752.160', 'text': 'he who has already begun the good work and is there'}, {'start': '749.880', 'end': '755.279', 'text': 'once again, brother, if you have'}, {'start': '752.160', 'end': '759.079', 'text': 'trusted in Christ, you may feel'}, {'start': '755.279', 'end': '761.399', 'text': 'weak, I can present myself eh'}, {'start': '759.079', 'end': '764.399', 'text': 'vulnerable to any temptation or'}, {'start': '761.399', 'end': '764.399', 'text': 'any false'}, {'start': '764.959', 'end': '770.240', 'text': 'teaching.  And it could happen, it happened'}, {'start': '767.680', 'end': '770.240', 'text': 'to Peter.'}, {'start': '770.440', 'end': '777.279', 'text': 'And our prayer must be,'}, {'start': '772.760', 'end': '780.680', 'text': 'Lord, help me not to sin against'}, {'start': '777.279', 'end': '783.440', 'text': 'you.  Help me not to be tempted to deny the'}, {'start': '780.680', 'end': '786.639', 'text': 'truths of the gospel.  Help me not to'}, {'start': '783.440', 'end': '788.920', 'text': 'doubt whether I need anything more'}, {'start': '786.639', 'end': '790.959', 'text': 'than just your sacrifice for the'}, {'start': '788.920', 'end': '793.880', 'text': 'salvation of my soul.  Lord, if you'}, {'start': '790.959', 'end': '796.480', 'text': 'began a work in each one of'}, {'start': '793.880', 'end': '800.320', 'text': 'us, please pray that on the day'}, {'start': '796.480', 'end': '800.320', 'text': 'of our glorification'}, {'start': '801.600', 'end': '807.000', 'text': 'that future blessing may come, the one the'}, {'start': '804.160', 'end': '809.519', 'text': 'apostle Paul tells the Philippians, that he'}, {'start': '807.000', 'end': '812.160', 'text': 'who began, because being'}, {'start': '809.519', 'end': '814.480', 'text': 'confident of this, that he who began'}, {'start': '812.160', 'end': '816.519', 'text': 'a good work in you will'}, {'start': '814.480', 'end': '819.399', 'text': 'carry it on to completion until the day of'}, {'start': '816.519', 'end': '823.959', 'text': 'Jesus Christ.  How wonderful'}, {'start': '819.399', 'end': '823.959', 'text': 'that is.  How wonderful'}, {'start': '825.800', 'end': '829.279', 'text': 'this is.  And the apostle Paul, now to get into the'}, {'start': '829.279', 'end': '836.040', 'text': 'verse, to the text that we have'}, {'start': '833.519', 'end': '839.959', 'text': 'now,'}, {'start': '836.040', 'end': '841.720', 'text': 'is if my testimony can be of any use to you'}, {'start': '839.959', 'end': '845.000', 'text': ".  It's something like the apostle"}, {'start': '841.720', 'end': '847.600', 'text': 'Paul is telling us that.  And if'}, {'start': '845.000', 'end': '849.800', 'text': 'my testimony can help you in any way,'}, {'start': '847.600', 'end': '852.600', 'text': 'look at the marks I bear on my'}, {'start': '849.800', 'end': '855.360', 'text': 'body.  Verse 17.'}, {'start': '852.600', 'end': '857.800', 'text': 'From now on, let no one'}, {'start': '855.360', 'end': '860.800', 'text': 'trouble me, for I bear on my body'}, {'start': '857.800', 'end': '863.600', 'text': 'the marks of the Lord'}, {'start': '860.800', 'end': '866.880', 'text': 'Jesus.  And if this'}, {'start': '863.600', 'end': '871.320', 'text': 'region of Galatia was preserved by sending'}, {'start': '866.880', 'end': '873.920', 'text': 'me to warn it of false'}, {'start': '871.320', 'end': '878.240', 'text': 'teachers, it has also sustained me'}, {'start': '873.920', 'end': '879.079', 'text': 'in the midst of so much hostility.'}, {'start': '878.240', 'end': '881.440', 'text': 'My'}, {'start': '879.079', 'end': '885.320', 'text': 'consolation, says the apostle Paul, is that'}, {'start': '881.440', 'end': '888.639', 'text': 'such hostility is nothing new.  That'}, {'start': '885.320', 'end': '891.480', 'text': 'hostility was suffered by my Lord, my'}, {'start': '888.639', 'end': '893.759', 'text': 'Savior.  They mistreated him,'}, {'start': '891.480', 'end': '896.560', 'text': 'they spat on him, they'}, {'start': '893.759', 'end': '900.000', 'text': 'humiliated him, they gave him a'}, {'start': '896.560', 'end': '902.880', 'text': 'shameful death.  He suffered humiliation'}, {'start': '900.000', 'end': '906.720', 'text': 'being the creator God and the sustainer'}, {'start': '902.880', 'end': '909.440', 'text': 'of all.  This hostility I bear and'}, {'start': '906.720', 'end': '911.920', 'text': 'receive with joy and it has been my joy.'}, {'start': '909.440', 'end': '914.759', 'text': 'Even last week we were studying'}, {'start': '911.920', 'end': '918.160', 'text': 'what his joy was.  What did'}, {'start': '914.759', 'end': '921.160', 'text': 'he boast about?  He gloried in the cross of'}, {'start': '918.160', 'end': '925.399', 'text': 'Christ.  That hostility, says the apostle'}, {'start': '921.160', 'end': '927.399', 'text': 'Paul, has marked me and I cannot'}, {'start': '925.399', 'end': '930.360', 'text': 'boast about it.  That cannot lead me to'}, {'start': '927.399', 'end': '932.360', 'text': 'anything else but glory in the'}, {'start': '930.360', 'end': '935.319', 'text': 'cross of'}, {'start': '932.360', 'end': '938.519', 'text': 'Christ.  So, having said'}, {'start': '935.319', 'end': '941.040', 'text': 'that, let me refresh us'}, {'start': '938.519', 'end': '944.759', 'text': 'together and take a'}, {'start': '941.040', 'end': '947.480', 'text': 'brief look, a brief review, a'}, {'start': '944.759', 'end': '949.079', 'text': 'brief flight through what the'}, {'start': '947.480', 'end': '951.040', 'text': 'letter of the apostle Paul has been.  We all'}, {'start': '949.079', 'end': '953.120', 'text': 'need to be refreshed at some point'}, {'start': '951.040', 'end': '955.560', 'text': '.  How did it start?  What does'}, {'start': '953.120', 'end': '957.720', 'text': 'chapter 3 say?  If we'}, {'start': '955.560', 'end': '959.959', 'text': 'start quoting, it seems like we are out of'}, {'start': '957.720', 'end': '963.720', 'text': 'place.  What does chapter 2 say?'}, {'start': '959.959', 'end': '966.120', 'text': 'What was chapter 4 about from 19 to 29?'}, {'start': '963.720', 'end': '968.639', 'text': 'So, to put things'}, {'start': '966.120', 'end': '971.480', 'text': 'into perspective and context a little bit,'}, {'start': '968.639', 'end': '974.480', 'text': 'let me take a little flight.  In'}, {'start': '971.480', 'end': '977.480', 'text': 'chapter 1 from verse 1 to'}, {'start': '974.480', 'end': '979.880', 'text': 'verse 5, there is a greeting that'}, {'start': '977.480', 'end': '981.800', 'text': 'is somewhat'}, {'start': '979.880', 'end': '983.319', 'text': 'indifferent.  In all the letters'}, {'start': '981.800', 'end': '986.079', 'text': 'we see that the apostle Paul'}, {'start': '983.319', 'end': '988.000', 'text': 'begins to speak to them with great affection,'}, {'start': '986.079', 'end': '990.920', 'text': 'great love, but there it seems that in'}, {'start': '988.000', 'end': '993.519', 'text': 'those five verses the apostle Paul'}, {'start': '990.920', 'end': '993.519', 'text': "doesn't say"}, {'start': '994.639', 'end': '1005.480', 'text': "much, there isn't much, it's not as if"}, {'start': '1000.959', 'end': '1008.360', 'text': 'some form of health is obscured.'}, {'start': '1005.480', 'end': '1011.440', 'text': 'After the "always" in chapter 1'}, {'start': '1008.360', 'end': '1013.319', 'text': 'from verse 6 to 10, Paul was'}, {'start': '1011.440', 'end': '1016.560', 'text': 'left'}, {'start': '1013.319', 'end': '1020.000', 'text': 'surprised and in some'}, {'start': '1016.560', 'end': '1023.240', 'text': 'spiritual pain by how easy it had been'}, {'start': '1020.000', 'end': '1025.679', 'text': 'for these false teachers to deceive'}, {'start': '1023.240', 'end': '1028.199', 'text': 'those who had heard, who'}, {'start': '1025.679', 'end': '1031.400', 'text': 'had received and who had embraced the'}, {'start': '1028.199', 'end': '1033.640', 'text': 'gospel, er, the true gospel.  And'}, {'start': '1031.400', 'end': '1035.880', 'text': 'the same apostle Paul says, "There is no'}, {'start': '1033.640', 'end': '1038.760', 'text': 'other gospel."  What happens is that'}, {'start': '1035.880', 'end': '1042.480', 'text': 'you are listening to these people'}, {'start': '1038.760', 'end': '1046.959', 'text': 'there.  Then always in chapter 1 from'}, {'start': '1042.480', 'end': '1049.080', 'text': '11 to 24 Paul tells them that he has previously'}, {'start': '1046.959', 'end': '1051.320', 'text': 'persecuted the church.  If anyone has'}, {'start': '1049.080', 'end': '1053.679', 'text': 'anything to boast about in the flesh, it is the same person who is listening to the'}, {'start': '1051.320', 'end': '1055.520', 'text': 'message they are hearing.  He'}, {'start': '1055.520', 'end': '1061.600', 'text': 'persecuted the church'}, {'start': '1059.120', 'end': '1064.360', 'text': 'of Hebrews, the'}, {'start': '1061.600', 'end': '1066.760', 'text': 'Pharisee, in terms of his'}, {'start': '1064.360', 'end': '1069.120', 'text': 'persecutory zeal for the church.  So what'}, {'start': '1066.760', 'end': '1070.840', 'text': "he's saying there is that I was that.  But do you"}, {'start': '1069.120', 'end': '1072.679', 'text': 'know what the'}, {'start': '1070.840', 'end': '1075.600', 'text': 'church in Galatia, this region, is doing now?'}, {'start': '1072.679', 'end': '1077.880', 'text': 'glorify God in me, he says, because I'}, {'start': '1075.600', 'end': '1080.600', 'text': 'am now preaching that'}, {'start': '1077.880', 'end': '1083.520', 'text': 'gospel.  Then we come to chapter 2,'}, {'start': '1080.600', 'end': '1086.360', 'text': 'verses 1 through 10. He goes up to Jerusalem,'}, {'start': '1083.520', 'end': '1089.039', 'text': 'meets privately with Peter, James,'}, {'start': '1086.360', 'end': '1092.400', 'text': "who is the Lord's half-brother,"}, {'start': '1089.039', 'end': '1095.760', 'text': 'James and John, who were considered'}, {'start': '1092.400', 'end': '1098.039', 'text': 'pillars in the church in'}, {'start': '1095.760', 'end': '1100.360', 'text': "Jerusalem.  And seeing that he wasn't"}, {'start': '1098.039', 'end': '1102.640', 'text': 'running in vain, they shook hands and the'}, {'start': '1100.360', 'end': '1105.360', 'text': 'only thing they said to him was, you know what?  Hey,'}, {'start': '1102.640', 'end': '1107.520', 'text': "it's the same gospel.  You go,"}, {'start': '1105.360', 'end': '1110.720', 'text': 'stay with the Jews.  I am going to the'}, {'start': '1107.520', 'end': '1112.000', 'text': 'Gentiles.  So, yes, one thing I have'}, {'start': '1110.720', 'end': '1114.919', 'text': 'heard from you.  Do you want me to'}, {'start': '1112.000', 'end': '1115.880', 'text': "take care of the poor?  Okay, I'm going"}, {'start': '1114.919', 'end': '1118.400', 'text': 'to do it'}, {'start': '1115.880', 'end': '1121.799', 'text': 'diligently.  Then we come to 2 from'}, {'start': '1118.400', 'end': '1125.360', 'text': '11 to 21. It becomes necessary for'}, {'start': '1121.799', 'end': '1127.799', 'text': 'Paul to confront Peter.'}, {'start': '1125.360', 'end': '1130.760', 'text': 'Peter, a'}, {'start': '1127.799', 'end': '1132.960', 'text': 'Jew, when'}, {'start': '1130.760', 'end': '1135.440', 'text': 'his Jewish brothers were not looking, he was'}, {'start': '1132.960', 'end': '1137.799', 'text': 'sitting with the Gentiles and everything'}, {'start': '1135.440', 'end': '1140.039', 'text': 'was fine.  But once he realized'}, {'start': '1137.799', 'end': '1142.640', 'text': 'that James was sending someone'}, {'start': '1140.039', 'end': '1144.840', 'text': 'to oversee the work'}, {'start': '1142.640', 'end': '1147.919', 'text': 'Peter was doing.  What did Peter do?  He forced'}, {'start': '1144.840', 'end': '1150.400', 'text': 'the Gentiles to Judaize.'}, {'start': '1147.919', 'end': '1155.320', 'text': 'So what did'}, {'start': '1150.400', 'end': '1155.320', 'text': 'Paul have to do?  He faced him face to face.'}, {'start': '1155.559', 'end': '1160.240', 'text': 'and tells him that he clarifies to them again'}, {'start': '1158.640', 'end': '1163.720', 'text': 'that the law does not'}, {'start': '1160.240', 'end': '1166.760', 'text': 'justify and that if that is so, Christ has'}, {'start': '1163.720', 'end': '1171.440', 'text': 'died in vain.  Christ died in vain.'}, {'start': '1166.760', 'end': '1174.799', 'text': 'Then we come to chapter 3 where it'}, {'start': '1171.440', 'end': '1177.760', 'text': 'is practically the heart or where'}, {'start': '1174.799', 'end': '1179.919', 'text': 'a lot of teaching is taken from chapter 3.'}, {'start': '1177.760', 'end': '1183.280', 'text': 'Why?  Because it is there that the apostle'}, {'start': '1179.919', 'end': '1186.919', 'text': 'Paul most strongly demonstrates his interest'}, {'start': '1183.280', 'end': '1189.400', 'text': 'in bringing them back from the'}, {'start': '1186.919', 'end': '1191.559', 'text': 'path they are'}, {'start': '1189.400', 'end': '1194.679', 'text': 'returning to.  You are'}, {'start': '1191.559', 'end': '1196.960', 'text': 'believers, foolish Galatians, what happened to you'}, {'start': '1194.679', 'end': '1199.480', 'text': '?  You are believers.  I'}, {'start': '1196.960', 'end': '1202.080', 'text': 'preached to them.'}, {'start': '1199.480', 'end': '1204.200', 'text': 'I am a witness, says the apostle, that if they'}, {'start': '1202.080', 'end': '1206.400', 'text': 'had been capable, if it had been'}, {'start': '1204.200', 'end': '1208.200', 'text': 'necessary, they would have taken out their eyes to'}, {'start': '1206.400', 'end': '1210.720', 'text': 'give them to me.  They have borne fruits of'}, {'start': '1208.200', 'end': '1213.200', 'text': 'repentance, they have borne the fruit of the'}, {'start': '1210.720', 'end': '1216.280', 'text': 'spirit.  And what happened to them?  Were'}, {'start': '1213.200', 'end': '1218.440', 'text': 'you fooled?  Did they let themselves be'}, {'start': '1216.280', 'end': '1221.799', 'text': 'bewitched?'}, {'start': '1218.440', 'end': '1224.080', 'text': 'You have received the Holy Spirit, and you did'}, {'start': '1221.799', 'end': '1227.440', 'text': 'not receive it by obeying the law.'}, {'start': '1224.080', 'end': '1230.360', 'text': 'You received the'}, {'start': '1227.440', 'end': '1236.000', 'text': 'Holy Spirit because you heard with'}, {'start': '1230.360', 'end': '1238.000', 'text': 'faith.  And you know why it is that it is not eh'}, {'start': '1236.000', 'end': '1240.480', 'text': 'why I cannot allow'}, {'start': '1238.000', 'end': '1242.720', 'text': 'you to continue wanting to return to all those'}, {'start': '1240.480', 'end': '1245.720', 'text': 'rudiments.  Because chapter 10,'}, {'start': '1242.720', 'end': '1247.880', 'text': 'verse 10, tells you, remember that'}, {'start': '1245.720', 'end': '1249.960', 'text': 'all who live under the law are'}, {'start': '1247.880', 'end': '1253.600', 'text': 'under a curse.   They'}, {'start': '1249.960', 'end': '1256.200', 'text': 'cannot fulfill all the'}, {'start': '1253.600', 'end': '1259.440', 'text': 'divine demands, all the demands of the law.'}, {'start': '1256.200', 'end': '1261.240', 'text': 'Then in 3:19-29, remember,'}, {'start': '1259.440', 'end': '1264.080', 'text': 'brothers,'}, {'start': '1261.240', 'end': '1268.760', 'text': 'Galatians, the law was only our'}, {'start': '1264.080', 'end': '1271.120', 'text': 'finding, it was only that tutor, that'}, {'start': '1268.760', 'end': '1273.960', 'text': 'finding that led us to Christ, that'}, {'start': '1271.120', 'end': '1276.840', 'text': 'guides us to Christ.  There was a seed that had'}, {'start': '1273.960', 'end': '1279.440', 'text': 'been promised and in its time it'}, {'start': '1276.840', 'end': '1282.279', 'text': 'was to come.  But when he came,'}, {'start': '1279.440', 'end': '1284.440', 'text': 'you no longer needed the law.  Well, they'}, {'start': '1282.279', 'end': '1288.159', 'text': 'never needed it for salvation.'}, {'start': '1284.440', 'end': '1291.200', 'text': 'What was is a guide, it is a beech.'}, {'start': '1288.159', 'end': '1295.440', 'text': 'So, in Christ we are justified'}, {'start': '1291.200', 'end': '1297.400', 'text': 'by faith in him and in his redemptive work.'}, {'start': '1295.440', 'end': '1301.360', 'text': "So that's chapter 3. Then"}, {'start': '1297.400', 'end': '1304.720', 'text': 'we come to chapter 4 from verses'}, {'start': '1301.360', 'end': '1307.200', 'text': "1 to 20. My little children, please don't"}, {'start': '1304.720', 'end': '1310.480', 'text': 'go back.'}, {'start': '1307.200', 'end': '1313.320', 'text': "Don't go back.  You guys were fine."}, {'start': '1310.480', 'end': '1316.840', 'text': 'You welcomed me in my'}, {'start': '1313.320', 'end': '1319.640', 'text': 'physical weakness, you did not despise me, you cared for me.'}, {'start': '1316.840', 'end': '1322.760', 'text': 'And my concern for you is so great'}, {'start': '1319.640', 'end': '1325.799', 'text': 'that I suffer.  Do you know what my pain is like?'}, {'start': '1322.760', 'end': '1328.559', 'text': 'That I am still in labor pains for'}, {'start': '1325.799', 'end': '1331.559', 'text': 'you.  Can you imagine what that'}, {'start': '1328.559', 'end': '1331.559', 'text': 'meant?'}, {'start': '1332.159', 'end': '1336.840', 'text': 'I am suffering from'}, {'start': '1334.159', 'end': '1339.200', 'text': 'labor pains, and those pains, all the'}, {'start': '1336.840', 'end': '1342.360', 'text': 'sacrifices I have made throughout'}, {'start': '1339.200', 'end': '1345.559', 'text': 'my preaching with you, I have done'}, {'start': '1342.360', 'end': '1348.000', 'text': 'with a single purpose, and that is until'}, {'start': '1345.559', 'end': '1351.640', 'text': 'Christ is formed in you.  Chapter'}, {'start': '1348.000', 'end': '1355.120', 'text': '4, verse 21. That is my purpose,'}, {'start': '1351.640', 'end': '1357.919', 'text': 'that Christ may be formed in you.  Then'}, {'start': '1355.120', 'end': '1363.039', 'text': 'we come to chapter 5 and it has been, as I'}, {'start': '1357.919', 'end': '1367.320', 'text': 'said, a brief review, perhaps the most'}, {'start': '1363.039', 'end': '1370.559', 'text': 'remarkable thing.  Then we come to chapter'}, {'start': '1367.320', 'end': '1373.120', 'text': '5 where he'}, {'start': '1370.559', 'end': '1377.000', 'text': 'tells them, "Continue'}, {'start': '1373.120', 'end': '1379.880', 'text': 'steadfastly. You were running well, brothers.'}, {'start': '1377.000', 'end': '1382.159', 'text': 'You were meeting in church,'}, {'start': '1379.880', 'end': '1384.799', 'text': 'you were praying, you were singing,'}, {'start': '1382.159', 'end': '1387.520', 'text': 'you were doing all kinds of good to'}, {'start': '1384.799', 'end': '1389.000', 'text': 'whomever you could, especially to those of the'}, {'start': '1387.520', 'end': '1392.440', 'text': "household of faith. That's what he tells them"}, {'start': '1389.000', 'end': '1394.200', 'text': 'later on. You were running well,'}, {'start': '1392.440', 'end': '1396.960', 'text': 'Christ set you'}, {'start': '1394.200', 'end': '1399.360', 'text': 'free and whoever hindered you from'}, {'start': '1399.360', 'end': '1404.159', 'text': 'running. The same apostle Paul there in'}, {'start': '1401.600', 'end': '1406.760', 'text': 'chapter 5 tells them, "I wish that all'}, {'start': '1404.159', 'end': '1409.480', 'text': 'those who have caused you to stumble,'}, {'start': '1406.760', 'end': '1412.159', 'text': 'all those who have influenced you badly,'}, {'start': '1409.480', 'end': '1416.000', 'text': 'I wish that they would'}, {'start': '1412.159', 'end': '1417.720', 'text': 'mutilate themselves.  I wish they would mutilate themselves.'}, {'start': '1416.000', 'end': '1419.919', 'text': 'But you know what?  They are so'}, {'start': '1417.720', 'end': '1422.760', 'text': "hypocritical because they don't even"}, {'start': '1419.919', 'end': '1425.799', 'text': 'want to do that.  They impose things on you'}, {'start': '1422.760', 'end': '1427.640', 'text': 'that they themselves do not do, and everything'}, {'start': '1425.799', 'end': '1430.200', 'text': 'they do does not lead'}, {'start': '1427.640', 'end': '1432.960', 'text': 'you to fight among'}, {'start': '1430.200', 'end': '1435.840', 'text': 'yourselves.  In fact, serve'}, {'start': '1432.960', 'end': '1438.400', 'text': 'one another in love.  And in chapter 5,'}, {'start': '1435.840', 'end': '1439.799', 'text': 'verse 15, the teaching is remembered'}, {'start': '1438.400', 'end': '1442.480', 'text': 'from this teaching, this text that'}, {'start': '1439.799', 'end': '1444.679', 'text': "we know.  Don't bite each other"}, {'start': '1442.480', 'end': '1446.159', 'text': ', because all the'}, {'start': '1444.679', 'end': '1448.559', 'text': 'fighting they do and all the'}, {'start': '1446.159', 'end': '1450.840', 'text': "teaching they do, don't let it lead you to"}, {'start': '1448.559', 'end': '1453.400', 'text': 'have quarrels among yourselves.  Do not'}, {'start': '1450.840', 'end': '1456.720', 'text': 'bite each other, lest you be consumed'}, {'start': '1453.400', 'end': '1459.000', 'text': 'by one another.'}, {'start': '1456.720', 'end': '1462.200', 'text': 'I understand you, says the apostle Paul'}, {'start': '1459.000', 'end': '1464.919', 'text': 'in verse 517. You know that'}, {'start': '1462.200', 'end': '1467.880', 'text': 'there is a battle between'}, {'start': '1464.919', 'end': '1470.919', 'text': 'us, that is fought within'}, {'start': '1467.880', 'end': '1472.000', 'text': 'each one of you, that is fought'}, {'start': '1470.919', 'end': '1475.399', 'text': 'within'}, {'start': '1472.000', 'end': '1477.799', 'text': 'me.  And it is that battle between the'}, {'start': '1475.399', 'end': '1480.880', 'text': 'works of the flesh and the'}, {'start': '1477.799', 'end': '1483.640', 'text': 'fruit of the spirit.  Chapter 5,'}, {'start': '1480.880', 'end': '1486.000', 'text': 'verse 19 to 21. In fact, I'}, {'start': '1483.640', 'end': '1488.039', 'text': 'told you what the works of the flesh are and'}, {'start': '1486.000', 'end': '1489.799', 'text': 'he begins to mention them because the'}, {'start': '1488.039', 'end': '1492.159', 'text': 'works of the flesh are this and they are that'}, {'start': '1489.799', 'end': '1495.360', 'text': 'and they are the other, but he also shows you'}, {'start': '1492.159', 'end': '1497.880', 'text': 'the opposite, the contrast, the works or the'}, {'start': '1495.360', 'end': '1500.120', 'text': 'fruit of the spirit.  And there begins joy,'}, {'start': '1497.880', 'end': '1502.799', 'text': 'peace, and he begins to speak to them about everything that'}, {'start': '1500.120', 'end': '1506.120', 'text': 'has to do with the fruit of the spirit,'}, {'start': '1502.799', 'end': '1509.520', 'text': 'which is obviously related to the'}, {'start': '1506.120', 'end': '1511.240', 'text': 'one who lives before God, the fruit'}, {'start': '1509.520', 'end': '1515.399', 'text': 'of the spirit.  By'}, {'start': '1511.240', 'end': '1515.399', 'text': 'then, coming to chapter'}, {'start': '1516.120', 'end': '1522.000', 'text': '6, those who are walking in the'}, {'start': '1519.760', 'end': '1525.080', 'text': 'spirit, who are'}, {'start': '1522.000', 'end': '1529.559', 'text': 'mature, must help restore the'}, {'start': '1525.080', 'end': '1532.159', 'text': 'brother who went in search of another'}, {'start': '1529.559', 'end': '1534.919', 'text': 'gospel.  They should help the brother'}, {'start': '1532.159', 'end': '1538.279', 'text': 'who in some way gave in to'}, {'start': '1534.919', 'end': '1541.120', 'text': 'temptation or simply became discouraged.'}, {'start': '1538.279', 'end': '1544.159', 'text': 'You who are mature, help that'}, {'start': '1541.120', 'end': '1546.679', 'text': 'brother to be'}, {'start': '1544.159', 'end': '1549.159', 'text': 'restored, that brother who strayed,'}, {'start': '1546.679', 'end': '1551.240', 'text': 'who gave in to temptation, but do not'}, {'start': '1549.159', 'end': '1554.039', 'text': 'do it with pride.  And that is why'}, {'start': '1551.240', 'end': '1556.760', 'text': 'maturity must exist.  Please do'}, {'start': '1554.039', 'end': '1559.120', 'text': "n't do it with pride.  Let him not do it"}, {'start': '1556.760', 'end': '1562.600', 'text': 'believing that he has already been'}, {'start': '1559.120', 'end': '1567.480', 'text': 'glorified.  Let him do it'}, {'start': '1562.600', 'end': '1569.360', 'text': 'thinking that he himself may be'}, {'start': '1567.480', 'end': '1571.360', 'text': 'tempted.  Let him'}, {'start': '1569.360', 'end': '1573.960', 'text': 'do it with the'}, {'start': '1571.360', 'end': '1575.480', 'text': 'truth, but let him do it with'}, {'start': '1573.960', 'end': '1577.679', 'text': 'mercy.'}, {'start': '1575.480', 'end': '1580.039', 'text': 'And the text I was quoting just now, I'}, {'start': '1577.679', 'end': '1581.200', 'text': 'heard it this morning and it refreshed'}, {'start': '1580.039', 'end': '1583.480', 'text': 'my'}, {'start': '1581.200', 'end': '1587.480', 'text': 'mind.  James'}, {'start': '1583.480', 'end': '1590.600', 'text': '2:13.  For judgment will be without mercy'}, {'start': '1587.480', 'end': '1592.559', 'text': 'to him who has not shown'}, {'start': '1590.600', 'end': '1595.080', 'text': 'mercy.  So what should'}, {'start': '1592.559', 'end': '1598.240', 'text': 'be the attitude to which Paul is calling'}, {'start': '1595.080', 'end': '1601.080', 'text': "the Galatians' attention?"}, {'start': '1598.240', 'end': '1603.640', 'text': 'If someone is caught in a'}, {'start': '1601.080', 'end': '1606.840', 'text': 'sin, you who are'}, {'start': '1603.640', 'end': '1609.159', 'text': 'spiritual should restore such a person in a spirit'}, {'start': '1606.840', 'end': '1613.640', 'text': 'of gentleness. Consider'}, {'start': '1609.159', 'end': '1613.640', 'text': 'yourself, lest you also be'}, {'start': '1615.320', 'end': '1619.080', 'text': 'tempted.  Verse chapter 6, verse'}, {'start': '1618.120', 'end': '1621.799', 'text': '7.'}, {'start': '1619.080', 'end': '1623.200', 'text': 'Remember, we studied this two'}, {'start': '1621.799', 'end': '1627.120', 'text': 'weeks ago.'}, {'start': '1623.200', 'end': '1629.360', 'text': 'Remember Galatians, remember church,'}, {'start': '1627.120', 'end': '1631.880', 'text': 'God cannot be'}, {'start': '1629.360', 'end': '1634.520', 'text': 'mocked.  Whatever a man'}, {'start': '1631.880', 'end': '1636.840', 'text': 'sows, that he must'}, {'start': '1634.520', 'end': '1639.399', 'text': 'reap.  Do good to all,'}, {'start': '1636.840', 'end': '1645.240', 'text': 'especially to those who are of the household of'}, {'start': '1639.399', 'end': '1647.960', 'text': 'faith.  And that God cannot be'}, {'start': '1645.240', 'end': '1650.399', 'text': 'mocked.  It had to do with the teaching'}, {'start': '1647.960', 'end': '1654.520', 'text': 'that the apostle was giving regarding'}, {'start': '1650.399', 'end': '1656.679', 'text': 'sowing to the flesh and sowing to'}, {'start': '1654.520', 'end': '1660.760', 'text': 'sow in the spirit.  He who sows'}, {'start': '1656.679', 'end': '1663.600', 'text': 'to the flesh will of the flesh reap'}, {'start': '1660.760', 'end': '1665.360', 'text': 'corruption.  But he who sows of the'}, {'start': '1663.600', 'end': '1669.640', 'text': 'Spirit will of the Spirit'}, {'start': '1665.360', 'end': '1669.640', 'text': 'reap eternal life.'}, {'start': '1672.799', 'end': '1678.039', 'text': 'And'}, {'start': '1674.240', 'end': '1682.200', 'text': 'now that I have written all'}, {'start': '1678.039', 'end': '1684.600', 'text': 'this to you, and I have done so with pain, I have done so'}, {'start': '1682.200', 'end': '1686.960', 'text': 'with tears, I have done so even in the'}, {'start': '1684.600', 'end': '1690.440', 'text': 'midst of'}, {'start': '1686.960', 'end': '1693.159', 'text': 'illness, I want to tell you something else that I'}, {'start': '1690.440', 'end': '1697.080', 'text': 'already told the Philippians in'}, {'start': '1693.159', 'end': '1699.320', 'text': 'chapter 3, verses 7 to 8.'}, {'start': '1697.080', 'end': '1702.519', 'text': 'But what things were gain to me'}, {'start': '1699.320', 'end': '1706.360', 'text': ', those I have counted loss'}, {'start': '1702.519', 'end': '1710.679', 'text': 'for the sake of Christ.  And indeed I'}, {'start': '1706.360', 'end': '1712.960', 'text': 'count all things but loss'}, {'start': '1710.679', 'end': '1716.480', 'text': 'for the surpassing worth of the knowledge of'}, {'start': '1712.960', 'end': '1720.960', 'text': 'Christ Jesus my Lord, for'}, {'start': '1716.480', 'end': '1723.679', 'text': 'whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but'}, {'start': '1720.960', 'end': '1726.080', 'text': 'rubbish, that I may gain'}, {'start': '1723.679', 'end': '1728.279', 'text': 'Christ.  And if there is anything that moves me,'}, {'start': '1726.080', 'end': '1731.600', 'text': 'the apostle Paul continues,'}, {'start': '1728.279', 'end': '1734.720', 'text': 'I glory in the cross of Christ.  And'}, {'start': '1731.600', 'end': '1737.760', 'text': 'the central axis, the backbone of'}, {'start': '1734.720', 'end': '1740.760', 'text': 'everything the apostle Paul did was'}, {'start': '1737.760', 'end': '1743.120', 'text': 'motivated by and rested on'}, {'start': '1740.760', 'end': '1745.159', 'text': "Christ's sacrifice on the cross and his"}, {'start': '1743.120', 'end': '1749.039', 'text': 'redemptive work.'}, {'start': '1745.159', 'end': '1752.559', 'text': 'He has said in Galatians chapter 6'}, {'start': '1749.039', 'end': '1755.039', 'text': ', verse 14, that he glories'}, {'start': '1752.559', 'end': '1757.760', 'text': 'in the cross of Christ.  But thinking about'}, {'start': '1755.039', 'end': '1760.360', 'text': 'this, I think it would also be necessary and'}, {'start': '1757.760', 'end': '1764.320', 'text': 'healthy for us to think, what'}, {'start': '1760.360', 'end': '1766.600', 'text': 'happens when the cross is not my'}, {'start': '1764.320', 'end': '1768.880', 'text': 'glory?  When I do not glory in the cross.'}, {'start': '1766.600', 'end': '1771.640', 'text': 'He has told the Galatians in 6:14'}, {'start': '1768.880', 'end': '1775.480', 'text': 'that he glories in the cross.  But I already'}, {'start': '1771.640', 'end': '1778.000', 'text': 'quoted in Ephesians, sorry, Philippians'}, {'start': '1775.480', 'end': '1780.679', 'text': 'chapter 3, verses 7 to 8. But'}, {'start': '1778.000', 'end': '1785.600', 'text': 'if we go further in'}, {'start': '1780.679', 'end': '1788.440', 'text': 'chapter 3 17 to 19, always in'}, {'start': '1785.600', 'end': '1790.760', 'text': 'Philippians, the apostle Paul in us'}, {'start': '1788.440', 'end': '1793.919', 'text': 'we find a contrast in what the'}, {'start': '1790.760', 'end': '1793.919', 'text': 'apostle Paul says'}, {'start': '1794.120', 'end': '1801.480', 'text': 'there, brothers, verse chapter 3,'}, {'start': '1797.840', 'end': '1804.799', 'text': 'verse 17 of Philippians.'}, {'start': '1801.480', 'end': '1807.679', 'text': 'Brothers, be imitators of me, and observe'}, {'start': '1804.799', 'end': '1810.440', 'text': 'those who walk in this way, as you'}, {'start': '1807.679', 'end': '1811.919', 'text': "have us for an example.  That's"}, {'start': '1810.440', 'end': '1815.080', 'text': 'what the apostle Paul is saying.   They'}, {'start': '1811.919', 'end': '1817.559', 'text': 'already looked at me, already.  I mean, see the'}, {'start': '1815.080', 'end': '1819.760', 'text': 'love I feel for my Savior.'}, {'start': '1817.559', 'end': '1822.640', 'text': 'So, try to imitate that because in'}, {'start': '1819.760', 'end': '1825.159', 'text': "verse 18 and it's practically the"}, {'start': '1822.640', 'end': '1827.960', 'text': 'same theme, Judaizers, false'}, {'start': '1825.159', 'end': '1829.279', 'text': 'teachers, verse 18 says, because'}, {'start': '1831.480', 'end': '1837.720', 'text': 'many walk around, of whom I told you many'}, {'start': '1834.519', 'end': '1840.200', 'text': 'times and even now I tell you weeping, that they'}, {'start': '1837.720', 'end': '1842.960', 'text': 'are enemies of the cross of Christ.  These do'}, {'start': '1840.200', 'end': '1844.519', 'text': 'not boast, these are enemies of the'}, {'start': '1842.960', 'end': '1846.720', 'text': 'cross of'}, {'start': '1844.519', 'end': '1850.480', 'text': 'Christ.  What'}, {'start': '1846.720', 'end': '1852.720', 'text': 'is the motivation of the enemy of the cross'}, {'start': '1850.480', 'end': '1852.720', 'text': 'of'}, {'start': '1854.320', 'end': '1861.440', 'text': 'Christ?  Verse 19.'}, {'start': '1857.880', 'end': '1864.399', 'text': 'Whose end is destruction.  And there are'}, {'start': '1861.440', 'end': '1866.600', 'text': 'some things that they might'}, {'start': '1864.399', 'end': '1870.399', 'text': 'be or be'}, {'start': '1866.600', 'end': '1875.000', 'text': 'moved to follow, whose God'}, {'start': '1870.399', 'end': '1877.639', 'text': 'is their little belly and whose glory is'}, {'start': '1875.000', 'end': '1880.360', 'text': 'their shame, who only think about'}, {'start': '1877.639', 'end': '1881.799', 'text': 'earthly things.  And there is the contrast'}, {'start': '1880.360', 'end': '1884.120', 'text': 'I'}, {'start': '1881.799', 'end': '1886.639', 'text': 'was talking about.  Paul has said that he gloried in'}, {'start': '1884.120', 'end': '1888.679', 'text': 'the cross and he says that there are also others'}, {'start': '1886.639', 'end': '1891.320', 'text': 'who are enemies of the cross of Christ.'}, {'start': '1888.679', 'end': '1893.600', 'text': 'Because?  Because I have seen something in'}, {'start': '1891.320', 'end': '1897.919', 'text': 'them.  I have seen that they talk about'}, {'start': '1893.600', 'end': '1900.080', 'text': 'earthly things and they want to, they use'}, {'start': '1897.919', 'end': '1902.320', 'text': 'phylacteries and they use all these kinds of'}, {'start': '1900.080', 'end': '1904.919', 'text': 'things that they think about earthly things whose'}, {'start': '1902.320', 'end': '1908.360', 'text': 'glory is their shame, that they only think'}, {'start': '1904.919', 'end': '1908.360', 'text': 'about their belly, about'}, {'start': '1908.519', 'end': '1914.000', 'text': 'earthly things.  And that is precisely what the'}, {'start': '1911.159', 'end': '1916.320', 'text': 'apostle Paul is inviting the'}, {'start': '1914.000', 'end': '1919.639', 'text': 'Galatians to.  Yes, I think, as I said at the'}, {'start': '1916.320', 'end': '1922.799', 'text': 'beginning, it was something different for them'}, {'start': '1919.639', 'end': '1925.360', 'text': 'and something different for us too'}, {'start': '1922.799', 'end': '1928.320', 'text': '.  And our prayer must'}, {'start': '1925.360', 'end': '1931.880', 'text': 'be, Lord, help me to remain in your'}, {'start': '1928.320', 'end': '1931.880', 'text': 'truth.  Only your word is'}, {'start': '1933.039', 'end': '1937.919', 'text': 'true.  So now we come to the closing of'}, {'start': '1935.840', 'end': '1941.559', 'text': 'the letter.  Through whom the world is'}, {'start': '1937.919', 'end': '1943.559', 'text': 'crucified to me, and I to the world.  And'}, {'start': '1941.559', 'end': '1946.760', 'text': "William Hendriksen's comment"}, {'start': '1943.559', 'end': '1950.760', 'text': 'caught my attention, which says'}, {'start': '1946.760', 'end': '1955.120', 'text': 'this.  He doesn\'t say, "I crucified the'}, {'start': '1950.760', 'end': '1957.679', 'text': 'world."  He says, "The world has'}, {'start': '1955.120', 'end': '1959.760', 'text': 'been crucified to me."'}, {'start': '1957.679', 'end': '1962.320', 'text': 'In other words, he bears'}, {'start': '1959.760', 'end': '1965.279', 'text': 'witness that the Holy Spirit,'}, {'start': '1962.320', 'end': '1968.840', 'text': 'through the pure doctrine of the'}, {'start': '1965.279', 'end': '1971.080', 'text': 'cross, has accomplished a marvelous work'}, {'start': '1968.840', 'end': '1972.760', 'text': 'in his'}, {'start': '1971.080', 'end': '1976.159', 'text': 'soul.  The'}, {'start': '1972.760', 'end': '1979.240', 'text': 'world, the pleasures and'}, {'start': '1976.159', 'end': '1980.159', 'text': 'worldly values \u200b\u200bthat tend to draw the soul away'}, {'start': '1979.240', 'end': '1982.399', 'text': 'from'}, {'start': '1980.159', 'end': '1984.639', 'text': 'Christ.  Do you know what the apostle'}, {'start': '1982.399', 'end': '1987.639', 'text': 'Paul says?  The world has been crucified to'}, {'start': '1984.639', 'end': '1990.279', 'text': 'me.  All that has lost its'}, {'start': '1987.639', 'end': '1992.480', 'text': 'charm.  All the'}, {'start': '1990.279', 'end': '1994.760', 'text': 'applause, all the'}, {'start': '1992.480', 'end': '1999.080', 'text': 'recognition, all that desire for'}, {'start': '1994.760', 'end': '2001.039', 'text': 'tributes, all that desire for honor, all of'}, {'start': '1999.080', 'end': '2003.360', 'text': "that has died for me.  And that's what"}, {'start': '2001.039', 'end': '2006.000', 'text': 'the apostle Paul is'}, {'start': '2003.360', 'end': '2009.760', 'text': 'saying, that'}, {'start': '2006.000', 'end': '2012.480', 'text': 'appetite for people to look at me, that appetite for'}, {'start': '2009.760', 'end': '2014.960', 'text': 'me to go there and preach and go there and'}, {'start': '2012.480', 'end': '2017.279', 'text': 'preach and say these things and there are'}, {'start': '2014.960', 'end': '2020.960', 'text': 'sick people being healed.  All those things'}, {'start': '2017.279', 'end': '2026.440', 'text': 'lost their value to me'}, {'start': '2020.960', 'end': '2026.440', 'text': '.  All that has been crucified for'}, {'start': '2026.960', 'end': '2034.760', 'text': 'me.  Verse 15. For in Christ'}, {'start': '2030.880', 'end': '2040.159', 'text': 'Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value,'}, {'start': '2034.760', 'end': '2040.159', 'text': 'but the new'}, {'start': '2040.480', 'end': '2045.880', 'text': 'creation.  That is the theme of Romans chapter 2'}, {'start': '2042.880', 'end': '2049.399', 'text': ', where it says that'}, {'start': '2045.880', 'end': '2053.240', 'text': 'circumcision is not that which is done'}, {'start': '2049.399', 'end': '2056.480', 'text': 'externally, but that which is done in the'}, {'start': '2053.240', 'end': '2058.960', 'text': 'heart.  The one of the heart.'}, {'start': '2056.480', 'end': '2062.119', 'text': 'And this is a new creature and in'}, {'start': '2058.960', 'end': '2065.800', 'text': "Paul's language not an"}, {'start': '2062.119', 'end': '2068.359', 'text': 'external circumcision of the flesh, but that of the heart'}, {'start': '2065.800', 'end': '2070.320', 'text': 'in the spirit.  Second Corinthians'}, {'start': '2068.359', 'end': '2073.839', 'text': 'again, the new creation, which is what it'}, {'start': '2070.320', 'end': '2076.280', 'text': 'says in chapter 5, verse 17 of'}, {'start': '2073.839', 'end': '2079.480', 'text': 'Second Corinthians.'}, {'start': '2076.280', 'end': '2081.440', 'text': 'And this strengthens the idea of \u200b\u200bwhat Paul'}, {'start': '2079.480', 'end': '2084.040', 'text': 'is saying'}, {'start': '2081.440', 'end': '2087.800', 'text': 'there.  So if anyone is in'}, {'start': '2084.040', 'end': '2090.000', 'text': 'Christ, there is the new creation.'}, {'start': '2087.800', 'end': '2092.599', 'text': 'For in Christ neither circumcision'}, {'start': '2090.000', 'end': '2095.280', 'text': 'nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but'}, {'start': '2092.599', 'end': '2098.920', 'text': 'what?  The new creation, that new'}, {'start': '2095.280', 'end': '2100.560', 'text': 'creation that is being spoken of by the'}, {'start': '2098.920', 'end': '2102.640', 'text': 'apostle Paul to the Corinthians.'}, {'start': '2100.560', 'end': '2104.839', 'text': 'Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he'}, {'start': '2102.640', 'end': '2109.040', 'text': 'is a new creation; old things have passed away.'}, {'start': '2104.839', 'end': '2111.280', 'text': 'Here all are made new, the new'}, {'start': '2109.040', 'end': '2112.920', 'text': 'creation.  Then when we come to verse'}, {'start': '2111.280', 'end': '2115.560', 'text': '16 of'}, {'start': '2112.920', 'end': '2119.839', 'text': 'Galatians, chapter 6, as many as'}, {'start': '2115.560', 'end': '2124.240', 'text': 'walk according to this rule, peace and'}, {'start': '2119.839', 'end': '2127.200', 'text': 'mercy be upon them and upon the Israel of'}, {'start': '2124.240', 'end': '2130.680', 'text': 'God.'}, {'start': '2127.200', 'end': '2130.680', 'text': 'And on this topic, I believe'}, {'start': '2130.720', 'end': '2135.800', 'text': 'that since my purpose was or is to'}, {'start': '2133.880', 'end': '2139.079', 'text': 'close the'}, {'start': '2135.800', 'end': '2141.000', 'text': 'letter, several questions could arise here'}, {'start': '2141.000', 'end': '2145.119', 'text': '.  What does the'}, {'start': '2143.000', 'end': '2148.119', 'text': 'apostle Paul mean when he says to the Israel of'}, {'start': '2145.119', 'end': '2148.119', 'text': 'God?'}, {'start': '2148.320', 'end': '2151.440', 'text': 'There are some who say'}, {'start': '2151.599', 'end': '2158.079', 'text': 'that the'}, {'start': '2154.319', 'end': '2160.040', 'text': 'church is the Israel of God,'}, {'start': '2158.079', 'end': '2162.359', 'text': 'us.  But when we go to'}, {'start': '2160.040', 'end': '2164.079', 'text': "chapters 9, 10 and 11 of Paul's letter"}, {'start': '2162.359', 'end': '2168.000', 'text': 'to the Romans, we see that'}, {'start': '2164.079', 'end': '2170.319', 'text': 'God has a plan for the nation of'}, {'start': '2168.000', 'end': '2172.560', 'text': 'Israel.  But as I said, it is not my topic to'}, {'start': '2170.319', 'end': '2175.119', 'text': 'go into that, but rather to all those who'}, {'start': '2172.560', 'end': '2178.000', 'text': 'walk according to this rule, which'}, {'start': '2175.119', 'end': '2178.000', 'text': 'rule?'}, {'start': '2180.480', 'end': '2184.640', 'text': 'to the new'}, {'start': '2182.200', 'end': '2186.720', 'text': 'creation, to having been born again, to'}, {'start': '2184.640', 'end': '2190.200', 'text': 'having'}, {'start': '2186.720', 'end': '2193.839', 'text': 'embraced the doctrine of the'}, {'start': '2190.200', 'end': '2197.520', 'text': 'cross.  If they walk according to that'}, {'start': '2193.839', 'end': '2199.359', 'text': 'rule, grace, peace, and mercy be to'}, {'start': '2197.520', 'end': '2201.839', 'text': 'them.'}, {'start': '2199.359', 'end': '2204.040', 'text': 'But note, to all who walk, when'}, {'start': '2201.839', 'end': '2207.079', 'text': 'we say to all who walk, it seems to'}, {'start': '2204.040', 'end': '2210.960', 'text': 'be or it seems that the doors are'}, {'start': '2207.079', 'end': '2212.800', 'text': 'open there for everyone.  And here we are not going'}, {'start': '2210.960', 'end': '2216.200', 'text': 'to exclude one or the other'}, {'start': '2212.800', 'end': '2218.400', 'text': 'because it is not.  Here all to them, to'}, {'start': '2216.200', 'end': '2220.599', 'text': 'all those who walk according to that'}, {'start': '2218.400', 'end': '2223.480', 'text': 'rule.  We are not going to'}, {'start': '2220.599', 'end': '2225.960', 'text': 'differentiate ourselves from men.  God did'}, {'start': '2223.480', 'end': '2228.200', 'text': "n't do it.  He does it.  The doors of"}, {'start': '2225.960', 'end': '2230.760', 'text': 'salvation are open to all who'}, {'start': '2228.200', 'end': '2232.839', 'text': 'wish to come.  Hey, John 3:16, what does it'}, {'start': '2230.760', 'end': '2235.680', 'text': 'say?  For God so loved'}, {'start': '2232.839', 'end': '2237.160', 'text': 'the world, a love that can'}, {'start': '2235.680', 'end': '2239.440', 'text': 'rescue the whole world.  But when'}, {'start': '2237.160', 'end': '2243.240', 'text': 'we talk about the world, we are talking about'}, {'start': '2239.440', 'end': '2245.200', 'text': 'a cosmos and in reality it is not that'}, {'start': '2243.240', 'end': '2250.599', 'text': 'all humanity will be saved, but'}, {'start': '2245.200', 'end': '2250.599', 'text': 'all those who walk according to that'}, {'start': '2250.760', 'end': '2255.280', 'text': 'rule.  And here it seems there is an'}, {'start': '2252.960', 'end': '2257.720', 'text': 'open invitation for everyone.  I said John'}, {'start': '2255.280', 'end': '2259.960', 'text': '3:16, "To the'}, {'start': '2257.720', 'end': '2262.400', 'text': 'Judaizers, to those who have'}, {'start': '2259.960', 'end': '2264.920', 'text': 'strayed, to everyone who has'}, {'start': '2262.400', 'end': '2267.720', 'text': 'lost the joy of their salvation,'}, {'start': '2264.920', 'end': '2270.200', 'text': 'brothers, the door is'}, {'start': '2267.720', 'end': '2273.119', 'text': 'open to'}, {'start': '2270.200', 'end': '2275.560', 'text': 'everyone in need of peace and'}, {'start': '2273.119', 'end': '2279.119', 'text': 'mercy."'}, {'start': '2275.560', 'end': '2282.079', 'text': 'I was saying, and quoting David in Psalm 51'}, {'start': '2279.119', 'end': '2284.440', 'text': 'the week before last, two Sundays ago,'}, {'start': '2282.079', 'end': '2289.000', 'text': 'that when we give way to the'}, {'start': '2284.440', 'end': '2291.920', 'text': 'flesh, we Christians become'}, {'start': '2289.000', 'end': '2294.480', 'text': 'more unhappy in the sense that we'}, {'start': '2291.920', 'end': '2296.599', 'text': 'are not happy.  Because?'}, {'start': '2294.480', 'end': '2299.319', 'text': 'Because sin, the works of the flesh,'}, {'start': '2296.599', 'end': '2302.000', 'text': 'lead us to'}, {'start': '2299.319', 'end': '2305.040', 'text': 'a level where there is no happiness, there is no'}, {'start': '2302.000', 'end': '2307.560', 'text': 'fullness in Christ because of'}, {'start': '2305.040', 'end': '2311.319', 'text': "sin.  And David's prayer in that"}, {'start': '2307.560', 'end': '2314.400', 'text': 'psalm was not, "Lord, restore my'}, {'start': '2311.319', 'end': '2317.880', 'text': 'salvation," he said, "Lord, restore to me'}, {'start': '2314.400', 'end': '2320.520', 'text': 'the joy of salvation." The man was'}, {'start': '2317.880', 'end': '2322.920', 'text': 'saved. Anyone who might be among'}, {'start': '2320.520', 'end': '2325.440', 'text': 'us or listening or'}, {'start': '2322.920', 'end': '2327.079', 'text': 'myself could be saved. But'}, {'start': '2325.440', 'end': '2330.200', 'text': 'because of sin, because of the work of the'}, {'start': '2327.079', 'end': '2333.000', 'text': 'flesh, we have lost that joy. May the'}, {'start': '2330.200', 'end': '2335.960', 'text': 'Lord grant us to return to that'}, {'start': '2333.000', 'end': '2339.560', 'text': 'joy according to this rule that points to'}, {'start': '2335.960', 'end': '2343.040', 'text': 'Christ, to his sacrifice, to his cross.'}, {'start': '2339.560', 'end': '2345.280', 'text': 'Brothers, sisters, church, or everything, was'}, {'start': '2343.040', 'end': '2347.440', 'text': "Paul's invitation. Come and"}, {'start': '2345.280', 'end': '2350.079', 'text': 'take hold of the cross of'}, {'start': '2347.440', 'end': '2352.760', 'text': 'Christ. Then, to speak of the Israel of'}, {'start': '2350.079', 'end': '2356.599', 'text': 'God, referring to the'}, {'start': '2352.760', 'end': '2358.640', 'text': 'believing Jews, I wanted to just quote this.'}, {'start': '2356.599', 'end': '2362.319', 'text': 'This is the Israel of God'}, {'start': '2358.640', 'end': '2364.040', 'text': 'referring to the believing Jews in'}, {'start': '2362.319', 'end': '2366.240', 'text': 'Jesus Christ. Those who are'}, {'start': '2364.040', 'end': '2368.960', 'text': 'descendants of Abraham, both'}, {'start': '2366.240', 'end': '2372.440', 'text': 'spiritually and physically, are the'}, {'start': '2368.960', 'end': '2375.880', 'text': 'real Jews we are'}, {'start': '2372.440', 'end': '2378.800', 'text': 'talking about here. The true Israel of faith,'}, {'start': '2375.880', 'end': '2382.079', 'text': 'to which the people'}, {'start': '2378.800', 'end': '2385.440', 'text': 'mentioned in chapter 2, 28 and 29 of'}, {'start': '2382.079', 'end': '2388.000', 'text': 'Romans and in chapter 9 from 6 to 7 of'}, {'start': '2385.440', 'end': '2390.760', 'text': 'Romans.'}, {'start': '2388.000', 'end': '2395.319', 'text': 'And then we come to'}, {'start': '2390.760', 'end': '2395.319', 'text': 'Galatians 17, verse 17. From here'}, {'start': '2395.920', 'end': '2401.040', 'text': 'on.  Let no one trouble me'}, {'start': '2398.599', 'end': '2402.760', 'text': 'because I bear on my body the marks of the'}, {'start': '2401.040', 'end': '2405.760', 'text': 'Lord'}, {'start': '2402.760', 'end': '2409.640', 'text': "Jesus.  And here it's as if he's"}, {'start': '2405.760', 'end': '2411.800', 'text': 'making a last request.'}, {'start': '2412.200', 'end': '2417.920', 'text': 'Please, from now'}, {'start': '2414.240', 'end': '2419.920', 'text': "on, please don't"}, {'start': '2417.920', 'end': '2423.280', 'text': 'bother me.  The troubles'}, {'start': '2419.920', 'end': '2427.200', 'text': 'the apostle Paul may be referring to'}, {'start': '2423.280', 'end': '2429.839', 'text': 'are those of'}, {'start': '2427.200', 'end': '2431.760', 'text': 'genuine believers who had somehow'}, {'start': '2429.839', 'end': '2434.440', 'text': 'allowed themselves to be influenced by the'}, {'start': '2431.760', 'end': '2437.520', 'text': 'perverted gospel of the Judaizers.  Not'}, {'start': '2434.440', 'end': '2440.520', 'text': 'only did they contribute to corrupting the'}, {'start': '2437.520', 'end': '2442.119', 'text': 'churches they visited and sickening the'}, {'start': '2440.520', 'end': '2444.599', 'text': 'minds of the little brothers and'}, {'start': '2442.119', 'end': '2448.000', 'text': 'sisters, but they were also the'}, {'start': '2444.599', 'end': '2450.760', 'text': 'cause of the'}, {'start': '2448.000', 'end': '2453.200', 'text': 'spiritual and physical discomfort and afflictions of the'}, {'start': '2450.760', 'end': '2453.200', 'text': 'apostle'}, {'start': '2453.920', 'end': '2458.720', 'text': 'Paul.  Many believers in these'}, {'start': '2456.200', 'end': '2461.280', 'text': 'churches had witnessed, including'}, {'start': '2458.720', 'end': '2463.720', 'text': 'themselves, how'}, {'start': '2461.280', 'end': '2466.920', 'text': 'Paul received on his body some of'}, {'start': '2463.720', 'end': '2469.839', 'text': 'the marks he is referring to.   It'}, {'start': '2466.920', 'end': '2472.760', 'text': 'could be in Lystra, for example, he was'}, {'start': '2469.839', 'end': '2475.760', 'text': 'stoned, dragged from outside'}, {'start': '2472.760', 'end': '2478.839', 'text': 'the city and left for dead there.'}, {'start': '2475.760', 'end': '2482.040', 'text': 'They had seen it.'}, {'start': '2478.839', 'end': '2485.599', 'text': 'He also wrote the same thing to the church at Colossae'}, {'start': '2482.040', 'end': '2487.960', 'text': 'in Colossians 1:24.  Now I rejoice in my'}, {'start': '2485.599', 'end': '2491.359', 'text': 'sufferings for you and fill up in my'}, {'start': '2487.960', 'end': '2494.160', 'text': 'flesh what is still lacking in'}, {'start': '2491.359', 'end': '2497.880', 'text': "Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church."}, {'start': '2494.160', 'end': '2497.880', 'text': 'That was what he suffered.'}, {'start': '2498.760', 'end': '2502.680', 'text': 'So whenever a Christian is'}, {'start': '2500.720', 'end': '2506.040', 'text': 'persecuted for his'}, {'start': '2502.680', 'end': '2510.599', 'text': 'faith, it is Christ who is actually'}, {'start': '2506.040', 'end': '2510.599', 'text': 'being persecuted through that'}, {'start': '2510.680', 'end': '2516.599', 'text': 'Christian.  Whenever a Christian is'}, {'start': '2513.319', 'end': '2518.520', 'text': 'persecuted for his faith, it is Christ who is'}, {'start': '2516.599', 'end': '2521.240', 'text': 'actually being'}, {'start': '2518.520', 'end': '2523.280', 'text': 'persecuted through that Christian.  And'}, {'start': '2521.240', 'end': '2525.839', 'text': 'proof of that.  Do you remember when'}, {'start': '2523.280', 'end': '2529.079', 'text': 'Peter goes to Damascus and he is there in'}, {'start': '2525.839', 'end': '2530.040', 'text': 'Acts 9:4?  Saul, Saul, Saul, why do you'}, {'start': '2530.040', 'end': '2534.680', 'text': "persecute me?  Paul wasn't"}, {'start': '2532.280', 'end': '2536.720', 'text': 'physically persecuting Jesus Christ himself, he was'}, {'start': '2534.680', 'end': '2538.160', 'text': 'persecuting his church, the'}, {'start': '2536.720', 'end': '2540.240', 'text': 'believers, those who went around'}, {'start': '2538.160', 'end': '2542.480', 'text': 'preaching, those who met in'}, {'start': '2540.240', 'end': '2544.520', 'text': 'houses and walked around there, he'}, {'start': '2542.480', 'end': '2546.680', 'text': 'persecuted them.  And so the Lord'}, {'start': '2544.520', 'end': '2548.920', 'text': 'appears to him and says, "Saul, Saul,'}, {'start': '2546.680', 'end': '2550.720', 'text': 'why do you persecute me?"'}, {'start': '2548.920', 'end': '2552.920', 'text': "So, that's an example of that, that"}, {'start': '2550.720', 'end': '2555.440', 'text': 'when someone persecutes a Christian, it'}, {'start': '2552.920', 'end': '2557.079', 'text': "'s Christ himself that they're persecuting"}, {'start': '2555.440', 'end': '2561.200', 'text': 'because they hate his'}, {'start': '2557.079', 'end': '2561.200', 'text': 'message, because they abhor his'}, {'start': '2561.599', 'end': '2566.520', 'text': 'message.  Paul was not physically persecuting'}, {'start': '2564.280', 'end': '2571.079', 'text': 'Christ, he was persecuting his'}, {'start': '2566.520', 'end': '2571.079', 'text': 'children.  Verse 18. Now to'}, {'start': '2571.880', 'end': '2577.720', 'text': 'finish, brothers, and there it is again.'}, {'start': '2575.480', 'end': '2577.720', 'text': 'They are'}, {'start': '2578.240', 'end': '2582.920', 'text': 'believers.  They are'}, {'start': '2580.359', 'end': '2585.520', 'text': 'believers.  The grace of our Lord'}, {'start': '2582.920', 'end': '2590.319', 'text': 'Jesus Christ be with your spirit,'}, {'start': '2585.520', 'end': '2592.440', 'text': 'with your soul, and with you.  Amen.'}, {'start': '2590.319', 'end': '2595.480', 'text': 'So let me say to you, he says,'}, {'start': '2592.440', 'end': '2598.760', 'text': 'the last words that show that you'}, {'start': '2595.480', 'end': '2602.200', 'text': 'are my brothers and also my deep'}, {'start': '2598.760', 'end': '2605.200', 'text': 'wish that divine grace may always accompany you'}, {'start': '2602.200', 'end': '2605.200', 'text': '.'}, {'start': '2605.720', 'end': '2612.599', 'text': 'Galatians, brothers, sisters,'}, {'start': '2609.760', 'end': '2615.920', 'text': 'beloved church, there is a glorious hope that'}, {'start': '2612.599', 'end': '2618.680', 'text': 'awaits us.  There is a glorious hope'}, {'start': '2615.920', 'end': '2621.000', 'text': 'that awaits us when we see our'}, {'start': '2618.680', 'end': '2623.319', 'text': 'Christ, our Savior.  There is'}, {'start': '2621.000', 'end': '2625.400', 'text': 'hope waiting for us.  One day we will'}, {'start': '2623.319', 'end': '2626.359', 'text': 'see him face to face, but until'}, {'start': '2626.359', 'end': '2632.680', 'text': 'then, let us take care of our common'}, {'start': '2629.400', 'end': '2635.200', 'text': 'salvation.  Let us work out that salvation'}, {'start': '2632.680', 'end': '2637.480', 'text': 'with fear and'}, {'start': '2635.200', 'end': '2638.839', 'text': 'trembling.  But there is one word that I'}, {'start': '2637.480', 'end': '2641.079', 'text': 'wanted to'}, {'start': '2638.839', 'end': '2643.720', 'text': 'intentionally leave out to'}, {'start': '2641.079', 'end': '2645.839', 'text': 'close and it is that word that we'}, {'start': '2643.720', 'end': '2650.160', 'text': 'find in'}, {'start': '2645.839', 'end': '2650.160', 'text': 'chapter'}, {'start': '2652.160', 'end': '2660.520', 'text': '5:16 and'}, {'start': '2654.319', 'end': '2660.520', 'text': '5, sorry, 5:16 and 61.'}, {'start': '2661.040', 'end': '2665.800', 'text': '5:16'}, {'start': '2663.079', 'end': '2667.800', 'text': 'says, "I say then, walk in the'}, {'start': '2665.800', 'end': '2670.480', 'text': 'spirit."  There is that'}, {'start': '2667.800', 'end': '2674.280', 'text': 'word,'}, {'start': '2670.480', 'end': '2674.280', 'text': 'walk.  And in'}, {'start': '2676.400', 'end': '2683.880', 'text': '616, to all who walk, there is'}, {'start': '2680.240', 'end': '2683.880', 'text': 'also walk.'}, {'start': '2685.480', 'end': '2688.960', 'text': 'And like I said, I wanted to do it'}, {'start': '2686.880', 'end': '2692.680', 'text': 'intentionally to'}, {'start': '2688.960', 'end': '2695.680', 'text': 'get my attention and also your'}, {'start': '2692.680', 'end': '2695.680', 'text': 'attention.'}, {'start': '2696.599', 'end': '2702.400', 'text': "If we don't walk or if we don't"}, {'start': '2699.359', 'end': '2704.280', 'text': "walk in the spirit, if we don't"}, {'start': '2702.400', 'end': '2707.160', 'text': 'walk in the'}, {'start': '2704.280', 'end': '2710.760', 'text': 'spirit, we will end up'}, {'start': '2707.160', 'end': '2713.960', 'text': 'satisfying all the works of the'}, {'start': '2710.760', 'end': '2718.200', 'text': 'flesh.  What implications does this'}, {'start': '2713.960', 'end': '2718.200', 'text': 'word have for us?'}, {'start': '2718.400', 'end': '2720.680', 'text': 'What do'}, {'start': '2721.200', 'end': '2724.920', 'text': 'we find in these words that the'}, {'start': '2723.400', 'end': '2727.559', 'text': 'apostle Paul is saying?  What'}, {'start': '2724.920', 'end': '2730.000', 'text': 'implications does that have?'}, {'start': '2727.559', 'end': '2732.200', 'text': 'And basically, what the apostle Paul'}, {'start': '2730.000', 'end': '2733.920', 'text': 'told them and tells us'}, {'start': '2732.200', 'end': '2737.319', 'text': 'is,'}, {'start': '2733.920', 'end': '2741.160', 'text': 'brothers, walk in the spirit,'}, {'start': '2737.319', 'end': '2743.559', 'text': 'march in the spirit, keep the pace'}, {'start': '2741.160', 'end': '2746.280', 'text': 'that the spirit guides you with the pace that the'}, {'start': '2743.559', 'end': '2746.280', 'text': 'spirit'}, {'start': '2747.720', 'end': '2754.119', 'text': 'guides you.  walk, which motivates them and so'}, {'start': '2751.200', 'end': '2757.440', 'text': 'that they see that salvation is possible'}, {'start': '2754.119', 'end': '2760.800', 'text': 'for anyone, no matter how small or immense'}, {'start': '2757.440', 'end': '2763.280', 'text': 'their sin, even for the Pharisees'}, {'start': '2760.800', 'end': '2766.880', 'text': 'and the Judaizers.  Remember the'}, {'start': '2763.280', 'end': '2768.559', 'text': 'story of Nicodemus in John 3, the one who'}, {'start': '2766.880', 'end': '2770.559', 'text': 'went by'}, {'start': '2768.559', 'end': '2773.480', 'text': 'night?  How'}, {'start': '2770.559', 'end': '2776.040', 'text': 'can a man be old, be born, or'}, {'start': '2773.480', 'end': '2778.400', 'text': "enter his mother's womb and be born?  And"}, {'start': '2776.040', 'end': '2781.480', 'text': 'the Lord said to him, "You must be'}, {'start': '2778.400', 'end': '2783.760', 'text': 'born of water and the'}, {'start': '2781.480', 'end': '2788.079', 'text': 'Spirit."  You,'}, {'start': '2783.760', 'end': '2790.800', 'text': 'being a leader among the Jews, you'}, {'start': '2788.079', 'end': '2793.119', 'text': 'come to me, still asking me all'}, {'start': '2790.800', 'end': '2796.040', 'text': 'these'}, {'start': '2793.119', 'end': '2799.319', 'text': 'things.'}, {'start': '2796.040', 'end': '2801.760', 'text': 'This was a man who had come at'}, {'start': '2799.319', 'end': '2804.280', 'text': 'night because he was afraid of the'}, {'start': '2801.760', 'end': '2807.119', 'text': 'Judaizers, he was afraid of the'}, {'start': '2804.280', 'end': '2809.400', 'text': 'Sanhedrin, he was afraid of being judged and'}, {'start': '2807.119', 'end': '2812.760', 'text': 'accused, even of being'}, {'start': '2809.400', 'end': '2814.559', 'text': "killed.  That's why he comes at night.  But so"}, {'start': '2812.760', 'end': '2817.119', 'text': 'that we realize that'}, {'start': '2814.559', 'end': '2818.839', 'text': 'salvation and the doors of salvation,'}, {'start': '2817.119', 'end': '2822.440', 'text': 'grace and peace and mercy'}, {'start': '2818.839', 'end': '2826.200', 'text': 'are open to all.   This'}, {'start': '2822.440', 'end': '2828.480', 'text': 'is what we see in John'}, {'start': '2826.200', 'end': '2831.640', 'text': '19:39.  Do you remember when the Lord'}, {'start': '2828.480', 'end': '2834.599', 'text': 'is, he has already been crucified, he has been'}, {'start': '2831.640', 'end': '2838.280', 'text': 'handed over, he is crucified.  Then when'}, {'start': '2834.599', 'end': '2841.040', 'text': 'Joseph of Arimathea in John chapter 19'}, {'start': '2838.280', 'end': '2842.880', 'text': ', Joseph of Arimathea comes to Pilate and'}, {'start': '2841.040', 'end': '2845.319', 'text': 'says, "Lord, the Sabbath is coming'}, {'start': '2842.880', 'end': '2848.079', 'text': '. Please give me permission. I want to'}, {'start': '2845.319', 'end': '2850.200', 'text': 'take the Lord\'s body."  And'}, {'start': '2848.079', 'end': '2852.400', 'text': 'Joseph of Arimathea comes and takes it.  But there is'}, {'start': '2850.200', 'end': '2854.280', 'text': 'a man, another character'}, {'start': '2852.400', 'end': '2857.640', 'text': 'there is'}, {'start': '2854.280', 'end': '2860.839', 'text': 'Nicodemus.  And he says, "The one who had come to'}, {'start': '2857.640', 'end': '2864.000', 'text': 'Jesus by night, what did he do? He brought'}, {'start': '2860.839', 'end': '2866.880', 'text': 'things to adorn and prepare'}, {'start': '2864.000', 'end': '2870.720', 'text': 'the body of the Lord. We see then that'}, {'start': '2866.880', 'end': '2872.400', 'text': 'salvation was also for him. How'}, {'start': '2870.720', 'end': '2875.440', 'text': 'could it not be for'}, {'start': '2872.400', 'end': '2876.880', 'text': 'us? How could it not be for'}, {'start': '2875.440', 'end': '2879.280', 'text': 'us?'}, {'start': '2876.880', 'end': '2883.160', 'text': 'If there was a man who was afraid and'}, {'start': '2879.280', 'end': '2885.400', 'text': 'suffered from'}, {'start': '2883.160', 'end': '2888.400', 'text': 'religious hypocrisy. If we come in'}, {'start': '2885.400', 'end': '2890.760', 'text': 'repentance and faith, confessing our'}, {'start': '2888.400', 'end': '2893.240', 'text': 'sin, brother, the doors of'}, {'start': '2890.760', 'end': '2896.319', 'text': 'salvation are open for you and they'}, {'start': '2893.240', 'end': '2900.040', 'text': 'are open for me. May the Lord'}, {'start': '2896.319', 'end': '2904.440', 'text': 'help us to consider these things and that'}, {'start': '2900.040', 'end': '2906.640', 'text': 'this step and this walk and this march'}, {'start': '2904.440', 'end': '2908.839', 'text': 'that the apostle Paul invites us to'}, {'start': '2906.640', 'end': '2913.960', 'text': 'is to consider all things.'}, {'start': '2908.839', 'end': '2916.800', 'text': 'What do we delight in? We delight'}, {'start': '2913.960', 'end': '2920.079', 'text': 'in your name whatever you want in my'}, {'start': '2916.800', 'end': '2922.040', 'text': 'armchair, in my comfort.'}, {'start': '2920.079', 'end': '2924.160', 'text': 'I delight in reading your word,'}, {'start': '2922.040', 'end': '2926.440', 'text': 'I delight in praying, I delight in'}, {'start': '2924.160', 'end': '2929.400', 'text': 'doing good, I delight in meditating on'}, {'start': '2926.440', 'end': '2932.240', 'text': 'your word. What do I meditate on? What am'}, {'start': '2929.400', 'end': '2936.000', 'text': 'I doing? What is my march? What  is my'}, {'start': '2932.240', 'end': '2938.960', 'text': 'step? So thank the Lord for the'}, {'start': '2936.000', 'end': '2941.240', 'text': "apostle Paul's letter to the Galatians.  And"}, {'start': '2938.960', 'end': '2944.440', 'text': 'once again, as we always say,'}, {'start': '2941.240', 'end': '2948.839', 'text': 'may Jesus Christ and only Jesus Christ be'}, {'start': '2944.440', 'end': '2950.760', 'text': 'exalted in our gathering.  We pray.'}, {'start': '2948.839', 'end': '2955.480', 'text': 'Blessed Father, we thank you for'}, {'start': '2950.760', 'end': '2955.480', 'text': 'your love, for your eternal mercy,'}, {'start': '2965.559', 'end': '2973.160', 'text': 'Lord.  It is, Lord, a good time for you to'}, {'start': '2970.000', 'end': '2975.240', 'text': 'help us together consider,'}, {'start': '2973.160', 'end': '2979.640', 'text': 'Lord,'}, {'start': '2975.240', 'end': '2979.640', 'text': 'where our trust lies.'}, {'start': '2980.680', 'end': '2984.760', 'text': 'that together, Lord, you help us to'}, {'start': '2982.920', 'end': '2988.280', 'text': 'meditate,'}, {'start': '2984.760', 'end': '2988.280', 'text': 'Lord, in what we'}, {'start': '2990.839', 'end': '2995.960', 'text': 'delight.'}, {'start': '2992.960', 'end': '2998.960', 'text': 'If we ourselves have fallen not'}, {'start': '2995.960', 'end': '3002.079', 'text': 'necessarily into false doctrine or'}, {'start': '2998.960', 'end': '3005.079', 'text': 'false teaching, but into a'}, {'start': '3002.079', 'end': '3005.079', 'text': 'comfort.'}, {'start': '3005.480', 'end': '3011.000', 'text': 'Look, Lord, we are'}, {'start': '3011.520', 'end': '3019.960', 'text': 'tired here.  We are here, Lord, with'}, {'start': '3015.040', 'end': '3023.640', 'text': 'an urgent need for your son to be'}, {'start': '3019.960', 'end': '3023.640', 'text': 'formed in us.   We do'}, {'start': '3025.119', 'end': '3030.839', 'text': 'not want, Lord, to walk this race'}, {'start': '3027.799', 'end': '3033.160', 'text': 'alone or comfortable or trusting, Lord,'}, {'start': '3030.839', 'end': '3038.000', 'text': 'taking for granted that'}, {'start': '3033.160', 'end': '3039.799', 'text': 'everything has already been done for us.'}, {'start': '3038.000', 'end': '3044.520', 'text': 'Please, Lord, let us not find ourselves empty, like that'}, {'start': '3039.799', 'end': '3044.520', 'text': 'driver looking at his'}, {'start': '3047.559', 'end': '3052.359', 'text': 'fuel gauge.'}, {'start': '3052.559', 'end': '3057.520', 'text': 'Help us, Lord, to be'}, {'start': '3055.200', 'end': '3060.319', 'text': 'intentional and help us to be'}, {'start': '3057.520', 'end': '3063.240', 'text': 'rooted, to be grounded in love'}, {'start': '3060.319', 'end': '3063.240', 'text': 'in your word,'}, {'start': '3063.599', 'end': '3068.280', 'text': 'Lord.  We thank you, Lord, because'}, {'start': '3066.440', 'end': '3071.160', 'text': 'you have gathered this group of brothers'}, {'start': '3068.280', 'end': '3073.559', 'text': 'here and they are gathered, Lord.   They'}, {'start': '3071.160', 'end': '3076.599', 'text': 'are not gathered in the name of a'}, {'start': '3073.559', 'end': '3079.640', 'text': 'denomination.  We are gathered in your'}, {'start': '3076.599', 'end': '3081.920', 'text': 'name and we are gathered, Lord, for'}, {'start': '3079.640', 'end': '3081.920', 'text': 'your'}, {'start': '3082.040', 'end': '3088.359', 'text': 'glory.  Help us, Lord, to'}, {'start': '3085.480', 'end': '3090.559', 'text': 'reflect on the reality of the love you have'}, {'start': '3088.359', 'end': '3092.799', 'text': 'had for us.  You separated us'}, {'start': '3090.559', 'end': '3095.799', 'text': "from our mother's womb.  You"}, {'start': '3092.799', 'end': '3098.720', 'text': 'have us gathered here.  You said what day'}, {'start': '3095.799', 'end': '3100.599', 'text': 'we would meet and let us'}, {'start': '3098.720', 'end': '3104.079', 'text': 'choose the time.  And how good you are,'}, {'start': '3100.599', 'end': '3104.079', 'text': 'Lord, because we are'}, {'start': '3105.559', 'end': '3112.960', 'text': 'here.  Help us, Lord, to be'}, {'start': '3108.200', 'end': '3116.240', 'text': 'able to be here, Lord,'}, {'start': '3112.960', 'end': '3121.599', 'text': 'always with the purpose, Lord, of'}, {'start': '3116.240', 'end': '3121.599', 'text': 'growing in you, of loving you more.   We'}, {'start': '3121.720', 'end': '3126.839', 'text': 'thank you, Lord.  May'}, {'start': '3123.839', 'end': '3131.119', 'text': 'we gather together on Friday, Lord, may'}, {'start': '3126.839', 'end': '3133.920', 'text': 'your church gather together,'}, {'start': '3131.119', 'end': '3136.760', 'text': 'Lord, may we be here next Sunday too'}, {'start': '3133.920', 'end': '3139.480', 'text': ', may your people come and'}, {'start': '3136.760', 'end': '3142.559', 'text': 'worship your name,'}, {'start': '3139.480', 'end': '3144.880', 'text': 'Lord, who moves desires,'}, {'start': '3142.559', 'end': '3147.280', 'text': 'wills, Lord, it is not man, but'}, {'start': '3144.880', 'end': '3150.319', 'text': 'you,'}, {'start': '3147.280', 'end': '3154.640', 'text': 'Lord.  So we entrust this cause to you'}, {'start': '3150.319', 'end': '3154.640', 'text': ', we entrust our prayer to you, Lord'}, {'start': '3155.280', 'end': '3159.640', 'text': '.  We thank you, Lord,'}, {'start': '3157.559', 'end': '3162.160', 'text': 'for how good'}, {'start': '3159.640', 'end': '3165.000', 'text': 'you are.  Allow your word, Lord,'}, {'start': '3162.160', 'end': '3167.839', 'text': 'to do the work for which,'}, {'start': '3165.000', 'end': '3169.520', 'text': 'Lord, it has been'}, {'start': '3167.839', 'end': '3173.960', 'text': 'given to us.'}, {'start': '3169.520', 'end': '3176.480', 'text': 'Eh, and once again, Lord, be with'}, {'start': '3173.960', 'end': '3179.599', 'text': 'us, for us, Lord, despite'}, {'start': '3176.480', 'end': '3179.599', 'text': 'us.   We'}, {'start': '3179.680', 'end': '3186.160', 'text': 'pray, Lord, for the illnesses that'}, {'start': '3183.520', 'end': '3189.119', 'text': 'are'}, {'start': '3186.160', 'end': '3192.559', 'text': 'besetting us, and for any discouragement'}, {'start': '3189.119', 'end': '3196.079', 'text': 'that may exist, Lord, that'}, {'start': '3192.559', 'end': '3199.799', 'text': 'you revive, Lord, the joy of'}, {'start': '3196.079', 'end': '3202.680', 'text': 'salvation, that you restore the joy of'}, {'start': '3199.799', 'end': '3206.440', 'text': 'salvation.  We pray, Lord, in Jesus Christ'}, {'start': '3202.680', 'end': '3210.400', 'text': 'and for his glory.  Amen.  God'}, {'start': '3206.440', 'end': '3210.400', 'text': 'bless you, brothers.  Ho.'}]