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'end': '83.583', 'text': 'hope that it will be once'}, {'start': '80.713', 'end': '85.184', 'text': "again a good time having said that let's"}, {'start': '83.650', 'end': '89.788', 'text': 'go to the letter of the'}, {'start': '85.251', 'end': '89.788', 'text': 'apostle Paul to the Galatians'}, {'start': '90.023', 'end': '101.066', 'text': 'Sorry, Ephesians wow I'}, {'start': '94.027', 'end': '101.066', 'text': 'fell asleep in Galatians.'}, {'start': '105.138', 'end': '116.282', 'text': 'Ephesians and as we are analyzing'}, {'start': '111.811', 'end': '116.282', 'text': 'the reading of this uh'}, {'start': '116.816', 'end': '119.886', 'text': 'study of this letter, of this'}, {'start': '118.518', 'end': '122.321', 'text': 'introduction, of this praise'}, {'start': '119.953', 'end': '124.390', 'text': 'where the apostle begins in'}, {'start': '122.388', 'end': '125.858', 'text': 'verse three of chapter'}, {'start': '124.457', 'end': '128.761', 'text': 'one and ends in verse'}, 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We talked about the'}, {'start': '221.153', 'end': '225.391', 'text': 'forgiveness that was offered to'}, {'start': '222.855', 'end': '226.659', 'text': 'us as part of those'}, {'start': '225.458', 'end': '228.361', 'text': 'treasures that we'}, {'start': '226.726', 'end': '232.498', 'text': 'find in this chest'}, {'start': '228.428', 'end': '235.067', 'text': 'known as Ephesians and'}, {'start': '232.565', 'end': '237.536', 'text': 'my intention now is for us to'}, {'start': '235.134', 'end': '238.738', 'text': 'get from verse eight to'}, {'start': '237.603', 'end': '241.540', 'text': 'verse twelve but in order for'}, {'start': '238.805', 'end': '243.876', 'text': "that to happen we're going to pray first"}, {'start': '241.607', 'end': '245.611', 'text': 'that the Lord would help us'}, {'start': '243.943', 'end': '250.049', 'text': 'Blessed God and Father we thank you'}, {'start': '245.678', 'end': '250.049', 'text': 'once again'}, {'start': '250.350', 'end': '253.452', 'text': 'because you have been good'}, {'start': '251.984', 'end': '257.490', 'text': 'because your mercy is'}, {'start': '253.519', 'end': '261.727', 'text': 'forever because Lord in spite'}, {'start': '257.557', 'end': '263.462', 'text': 'of us You have given us'}, {'start': '261.794', 'end': '266.299', 'text': 'all these'}, {'start': '263.529', 'end': '271.604', 'text': 'spiritual blessings as we'}, {'start': '266.366', 'end': '275.508', 'text': 'have seen and that everything'}, {'start': '271.671', 'end': '278.477', 'text': 'Lady has been born in the pure'}, {'start': '275.575', 'end': '281.780', 'text': 'affection of your will according to your'}, {'start': '278.544', 'end': '281.780', 'text': 'good pleasure'}, {'start': '281.947', 'end': '287.353', 'text': 'then Lord the blessings that'}, {'start': '283.483', 'end': '289.322', 'text': 'we are'}, {'start': '287.420', 'end': '291.891', 'text': 'possessed of are not because'}, {'start': '289.389', 'end': '295.461', 'text': 'we sought them Lord'}, {'start': '291.958', 'end': '297.463', 'text': 'but because you chose us you'}, {'start': '295.528', 'end': '301.200', 'text': 'chose us before the'}, {'start': '297.529', 'end': '302.702', 'text': 'foundation of the world.  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Treasures that'}, {'start': '418.984', 'end': '425.624', 'text': 'are at your disposal and at my'}, {'start': '422.922', 'end': '428.260', 'text': 'disposal for'}, {'start': '425.691', 'end': '431.030', 'text': 'every child of God.  Having been'}, {'start': '428.327', 'end': '432.865', 'text': 'lost, as we saw'}, {'start': '431.097', 'end': '436.535', 'text': 'last week, was the first aspect we'}, {'start': '432.932', 'end': '440.406', 'text': 'saw: the Lord'}, {'start': '436.602', 'end': '442.909', 'text': 'redeemed us, the Lord forgave us, and He'}, {'start': '440.473', 'end': '444.910', 'text': 'did so through His'}, {'start': '442.975', 'end': '447.646', 'text': 'sacrifice carried out on the'}, {'start': '444.977', 'end': '450.049', 'text': 'cross.  There is nothing else by'}, {'start': '447.713', 'end': '451.383', 'text': 'which we can be'}, {'start': '450.116', 'end': '452.919', 'text': 'justified.  There is no other'}, {'start': '451.450', 'end': '455.254', 'text': 'way.  It is impossible, not'}, {'start': '452.985', 'end': '457.623', 'text': 'even our best'}, {'start': '455.321', 'end': '461.460', 'text': 'works.  Those are'}, {'start': '457.690', 'end': '462.127', 'text': 'filthy rags.  Then in second we'}, {'start': '461.527', 'end': '463.262', 'text': 'talked about the second'}, {'start': '462.194', 'end': '465.598', 'text': 'aspect that we'}, {'start': '463.329', 'end': '467.466', 'text': 'find in this section is'}, {'start': '465.665', 'end': '471.036', 'text': 'that He made known to us a'}, {'start': '467.533', 'end': '472.271', 'text': 'mystery and that is going to be the'}, {'start': '471.103', 'end': '474.874', 'text': 'focus that we have'}, {'start': '472.338', 'end': '477.176', 'text': 'for this afternoon and then as a'}, {'start': '474.941', 'end': '479.278', 'text': 'third aspect is that we have'}, {'start': '477.243', 'end': '481.447', 'text': 'obtained an inheritance and if the'}, {'start': '479.345', 'end': '483.015', 'text': 'Lord helps us we will be able,'}, {'start': '481.514', 'end': '487.453', 'text': 'well, may the Lord help us'}, {'start': '483.082', 'end': '490.823', 'text': 'finish this section,'}, {'start': '487.520', 'end': '492.458', 'text': 'verse eight says seven in whom'}, {'start': '490.890', 'end': '494.727', 'text': 'we have redemption through his'}, {'start': '492.524', 'end': '496.629', 'text': 'blood, the forgiveness of sins'}, {'start': '494.794', 'end': '498.030', 'text': 'according to the riches of his'}, {'start': '496.696', 'end': '499.398', 'text': 'grace.  Verse eight and that is'}, {'start': '498.096', 'end': '502.034', 'text': 'where we are going to start,'}, {'start': '499.465', 'end': '505.004', 'text': 'that he did abound toward'}, {'start': '502.100', 'end': '508.407', 'text': 'us in all wisdom and'}, {'start': '505.071', 'end': '508.407', 'text': 'intelligence.'}, {'start': '508.607', 'end': '512.544', 'text': 'In all wisdom and'}, {'start': '510.977', 'end': '516.382', 'text': 'intelligence and notice what'}, {'start': '512.611', 'end': '518.851', 'text': 'the verse says about'}, {'start': '516.449', 'end': '522.922', 'text': 'abounding, that is, he has given it'}, {'start': '518.918', 'end': '524.790', 'text': 'without measure superabundantly.'}, {'start': '522.989', 'end': '526.125', 'text': 'There is a similar passage in'}, {'start': '524.857', 'end': '527.726', 'text': '1 Timothy, chapter'}, {'start': '526.192', 'end': '529.962', 'text': '1, verse 14.  I'}, {'start': '527.793', 'end': '532.665', 'text': 'read it to you and the apostle'}, {'start': '530.028', 'end': '534.033', 'text': 'declares in this text, In'}, {'start': '532.732', 'end': '537.369', 'text': '1 Timothy 1:14,'}, {'start': '534.099', 'end': '542.174', 'text': 'but the grace of our Lord'}, {'start': '537.436', 'end': '544.677', 'text': 'was more abundant.  With the'}, {'start': '542.240', 'end': '547.046', 'text': 'love that is in Christ Jesus, the'}, {'start': '544.744', 'end': '548.681', 'text': 'Lord gives us, he does not give us by the'}, {'start': '547.113', 'end': '551.383', 'text': 'spoonful, he does not give us for a'}, {'start': '548.747', 'end': '555.054', 'text': 'little, he, he gives us'}, {'start': '551.450', 'end': '558.423', 'text': 'abundantly.  He does it'}, {'start': '555.121', 'end': '558.423', 'text': 'abundantly.'}, {'start': '561.327', 'end': '566.932', 'text': 'And to be able to go'}, {'start': '564.263', 'end': '568.300', 'text': 'into the study a little bit, I went to the'}, {'start': '568.367', 'end': '574.640', 'text': "American Bible version and I didn't"}, {'start': '572.571', 'end': '576.141', 'text': 'choose it because I liked it,'}, {'start': '574.707', 'end': '580.045', 'text': 'but because it seemed'}, {'start': '576.208', 'end': '581.213', 'text': 'a little more appropriate'}, {'start': '580.112', 'end': '583.015', 'text': "for the topic we're"}, {'start': '581.280', 'end': '586.452', 'text': 'going to be talking about. 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Now'}, {'start': '1453.351', 'end': '1453.484', 'text': 'that'}, {'start': '1453.551', 'end': '1457.422', 'text': 'the believer has those'}, {'start': '1454.719', 'end': '1458.857', 'text': 'qualities granted by God'}, {'start': '1457.489', 'end': '1462.760', 'text': 'brought by the work of his'}, {'start': '1458.923', 'end': '1464.429', 'text': 'spirit, this believer has the'}, {'start': '1462.827', 'end': '1466.798', 'text': 'ability to see that'}, {'start': '1464.496', 'end': '1468.566', 'text': 'mystery that we are'}, {'start': '1466.865', 'end': '1470.936', 'text': 'going to enter into right now, we have already'}, {'start': '1468.633', 'end': '1472.504', 'text': 'seen that there is intelligence, we have already seen'}, {'start': '1471.002', 'end': '1474.406', 'text': 'that there is discernment'}, {'start': '1472.571', 'end': '1475.974', 'text': 'because we know the truth of'}, {'start': '1474.472', 'end': '1477.675', 'text': 'God and how the eyes of our'}, {'start': '1476.041', 'end': '1479.044', 'text': 'understanding have been opened'}, {'start': '1477.742', 'end': '1480.578', 'text': 'through that choice'}, {'start': '1479.110', 'end': '1482.680', 'text': 'that the Lord has made for'}, {'start': '1480.645', 'end': '1483.882', 'text': 'us and has called us to'}, {'start': '1482.747', 'end': '1486.518', 'text': 'live the way he'}, {'start': '1483.949', 'end': '1487.452', 'text': 'wants us to live holy and'}, {'start': '1486.585', 'end': '1490.922', 'text': 'blameless and without blemish,'}, {'start': '1487.519', 'end': '1496.427', 'text': 'then he gives us the ability to'}, {'start': '1490.989', 'end': '1496.427', 'text': 'see the mystery.'}, {'start': '1499.197', 'end': '1505.870', 'text': 'And we say it is a mystery'}, {'start': '1501.833', 'end': '1508.406', 'text': 'because it is not given to everyone to be able to'}, {'start': '1505.937', 'end': '1509.941', 'text': 'see these things because if the'}, {'start': '1508.472', 'end': '1512.777', 'text': 'people who are walking outside'}, {'start': '1510.008', 'end': '1516.013', 'text': 'and promoting so much evil'}, {'start': '1512.844', 'end': '1516.013', 'text': 'outside'}, {'start': '1516.180', 'end': '1519.951', 'text': 'knew this mystery, they would not'}, {'start': '1517.349', 'end': '1521.886', 'text': 'do it, they would abstain from'}, {'start': '1520.017', 'end': '1524.055', 'text': "all kinds of evil.  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The'}, {'start': '1543.708', 'end': '1549.747', 'text': 'Bible dictionary says it is a'}, {'start': '1545.644', 'end': '1550.915', 'text': 'revealed secret.'}, {'start': '1549.814', 'end': '1551.982', 'text': "Sometimes we've been given,"}, {'start': '1550.982', 'end': '1555.420', 'text': "well now we're celebrating"}, {'start': '1552.049', 'end': '1557.589', 'text': "Father's Day and"}, {'start': '1555.487', 'end': '1559.057', 'text': 'a little gift has arrived, something has arrived'}, {'start': '1557.656', 'end': '1560.458', 'text': 'for us and we'}, {'start': '1559.124', 'end': '1562.260', 'text': 'have a little bag,'}, {'start': '1560.525', 'end': '1564.429', 'text': 'an envelope, we have,'}, {'start': '1562.327', 'end': '1565.830', 'text': 'uh, anything else,'}, {'start': '1564.496', 'end': '1569.467', 'text': 'anything and we'}, {'start': '1565.897', 'end': '1572.537', 'text': "'re anxious to see what"}, {'start': '1569.534', 'end': '1574.972', 'text': "'s inside.  That is"}, {'start': '1572.604', 'end': '1577.742', 'text': 'a secret that only the'}, {'start': '1575.039', 'end': '1579.643', 'text': "one who gave it knows, I don't"}, {'start': '1577.809', 'end': '1582.013', 'text': 'know it yet and that secret'}, {'start': '1579.710', 'end': '1583.047', 'text': "is hidden from me, I don't know it but"}, {'start': '1582.079', 'end': '1585.316', 'text': 'once I open it, once'}, {'start': '1583.114', 'end': '1587.518', 'text': 'I discover what someone'}, {'start': '1585.383', 'end': '1589.454', 'text': 'gave me it is no longer a secret, it'}, {'start': '1587.585', 'end': '1591.389', 'text': 'is no longer a mystery, it has already been'}, {'start': '1589.521', 'end': '1593.424', 'text': "revealed.  Ah, it's such a thing, it's a"}, {'start': '1591.456', 'end': '1595.093', 'text': "watch, it's a shirt, eh,"}, {'start': '1593.491', 'end': '1597.929', 'text': 'anything else, but I already know'}, {'start': '1595.160', 'end': '1599.197', 'text': 'what that mystery was.  So it'}, {'start': '1597.996', 'end': '1601.966', 'text': "'s a mystery, it's a"}, {'start': '1599.264', 'end': '1605.770', 'text': 'revealed secret, something that could be'}, {'start': '1602.033', 'end': '1609.974', 'text': 'understood unless there was'}, {'start': '1605.837', 'end': '1611.409', 'text': 'a divine revelation or explanation'}, {'start': '1610.041', 'end': '1614.012', 'text': ", and we're talking about that in"}, {'start': '1611.475', 'end': '1618.383', 'text': 'divine terms, in'}, {'start': '1614.079', 'end': '1620.518', 'text': "gospel terms.  That's that"}, {'start': '1618.449', 'end': '1623.321', 'text': 'word Jesus used, that'}, {'start': '1620.585', 'end': '1625.256', 'text': 'mystery Jesus used it'}, {'start': '1623.388', 'end': '1627.091', 'text': 'only once we see it in the'}, {'start': '1625.323', 'end': '1628.660', 'text': 'gospel of Matthew, Mark and'}, {'start': '1627.158', 'end': '1630.628', 'text': "Luke we don't find it in the"}, {'start': '1628.727', 'end': '1632.530', 'text': "gospel of John but we don't"}, {'start': '1630.695', 'end': '1634.565', 'text': 'find it among the'}, {'start': '1632.597', 'end': '1636.468', 'text': 'first three gospels and what does'}, {'start': '1634.632', 'end': '1639.136', 'text': 'Luke say?  And that was the one'}, {'start': '1636.534', 'end': '1642.573', 'text': 'I wanted to choose to be'}, {'start': '1639.203', 'end': '1644.676', 'text': 'able to read it.  And it says like this, eh, eh,'}, {'start': '1642.640', 'end': '1646.411', 'text': 'Luke chapter eight verse'}, {'start': '1644.743', 'end': '1648.179', 'text': 'ten and eleven.  It is the only time'}, {'start': '1646.478', 'end': '1650.281', 'text': 'Jesus uses this word'}, {'start': '1648.246', 'end': '1652.517', 'text': 'and look who he says it to.  He'}, {'start': '1650.348', 'end': '1654.151', 'text': 'is not telling it to the world,'}, {'start': '1652.584', 'end': '1656.521', 'text': 'to the world or to the Pharisees or to'}, {'start': '1654.218', 'end': '1659.057', 'text': 'the Oducees or to all those'}, {'start': '1656.588', 'end': '1660.324', 'text': 'religious people. How?'}, {'start': '1659.124', 'end': '1661.993', 'text': 'How did he speak to them?  He'}, {'start': '1660.391', 'end': '1665.830', 'text': 'spoke to them in parables but'}, {'start': '1662.060', 'end': '1669.634', 'text': 'did so in a hidden way.  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Because they'}, {'start': '1700.231', 'end': '1704.268', 'text': 'look to me so that seeing they do not'}, {'start': '1702.433', 'end': '1705.770', 'text': 'see they are blinded they are'}, {'start': '1704.335', 'end': '1706.838', 'text': 'blind, there is no wisdom, there is no'}, {'start': '1705.836', 'end': '1710.040', 'text': 'discernment in them'}, {'start': '1706.905', 'end': '1716.681', 'text': 'so seeing they do not see and hearing they do'}, {'start': '1710.107', 'end': '1718.950', 'text': 'not understand this well'}, {'start': '1716.748', 'end': '1720.584', 'text': 'this is the parable What'}, {'start': '1719.016', 'end': '1722.887', 'text': 'was the parable that the Lord'}, {'start': '1720.651', 'end': '1725.456', 'text': 'was telling them then?'}, {'start': '1722.954', 'end': '1726.724', 'text': 'The seed is the word of'}, {'start': '1725.522', 'end': '1729.327', 'text': 'God and here we can'}, {'start': '1726.791', 'end': '1731.028', 'text': 'see the contrast between'}, {'start': '1729.394', 'end': '1733.598', 'text': 'these two groups.  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Here it's not"}, {'start': '1761.860', 'end': '1764.695', 'text': 'as if we go to a'}, {'start': '1763.995', 'end': '1766.931', 'text': 'restaurant and want our'}, {'start': '1764.762', 'end': '1769.700', 'text': 'meat well done or medium'}, {'start': '1766.998', 'end': '1772.503', 'text': "rare or medium cooked. Here it's either"}, {'start': '1769.767', 'end': '1774.339', 'text': 'well done or we have nothing. In'}, {'start': '1772.569', 'end': '1775.706', 'text': 'the gospel, there are no'}, {'start': '1774.405', 'end': '1782.980', 'text': 'middle ground. Either someone is a'}, {'start': '1775.773', 'end': '1782.980', 'text': 'child of God or a child of wrath.'}, {'start': '1783.448', 'end': '1787.451', 'text': 'Our Lord Jesus Christ'}, {'start': '1785.083', 'end': '1790.521', 'text': 'once used this word, a'}, {'start': '1787.518', 'end': '1793.224', 'text': 'word of mysteries. 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The coming of'}, {'start': '1820.685', 'end': '1823.988', 'text': 'Christ Colossians'}, {'start': '1821.953', 'end': '1825.823', 'text': '127 that is what'}, {'start': '1824.054', 'end': '1828.326', 'text': 'teaches us to whom'}, {'start': '1825.890', 'end': '1829.927', 'text': 'God wanted to make known the'}, {'start': '1828.393', 'end': '1832.096', 'text': 'riches of his glory of this'}, {'start': '1829.994', 'end': '1834.866', 'text': 'mystery to the Gentiles and this'}, {'start': '1832.163', 'end': '1836.500', 'text': 'this for me completed eh'}, {'start': '1834.933', 'end': '1838.303', 'text': 'practically the idea that'}, {'start': '1836.567', 'end': '1841.405', 'text': 'I could understand from this'}, {'start': '1838.369', 'end': '1845.576', 'text': 'passage.  Colossians'}, {'start': '1841.472', 'end': '1847.745', 'text': '127 says to whom God'}, {'start': '1845.643', 'end': '1848.946', 'text': 'wanted to make known, How did He'}, {'start': '1847.812', 'end': '1850.414', 'text': 'want to make it known?  He gave them wisdom, he'}, {'start': '1849.013', 'end': '1851.582', 'text': 'first chose them, he gave them'}, {'start': '1850.481', 'end': '1853.451', 'text': 'wisdom, he gave them'}, {'start': '1851.649', 'end': '1856.487', 'text': 'discernment to whom God'}, {'start': '1853.518', 'end': '1859.457', 'text': 'wanted to make known that he the'}, {'start': '1856.554', 'end': '1862.226', 'text': 'riches of the glory of this'}, {'start': '1859.524', 'end': '1864.161', 'text': 'mystery among you, among,'}, {'start': '1862.293', 'end': '1867.031', 'text': 'among me, among the Gentiles.'}, {'start': '1864.228', 'end': '1872.870', 'text': 'That is where the mystery is'}, {'start': '1867.097', 'end': '1876.374', 'text': 'revealed.  Christ in you.'}, {'start': '1872.937', 'end': '1880.544', 'text': 'Hope of glory, there we are,'}, {'start': '1876.441', 'end': '1881.946', 'text': 'Christ in you, the hope'}, {'start': '1880.611', 'end': '1883.982', 'text': 'of glory, and I remember'}, {'start': '1882.013', 'end': '1885.650', 'text': 'that in the times when I'}, {'start': '1884.048', 'end': '1887.685', 'text': 'attended church, but I'}, {'start': '1885.717', 'end': '1889.620', 'text': 'was not a believer, I remember'}, {'start': '1887.752', 'end': '1891.556', 'text': 'that this text left its'}, {'start': '1889.687', 'end': '1894.158', 'text': 'mark on my mind because I'}, {'start': '1891.622', 'end': '1897.662', 'text': 'read it and I said, wow, what a'}, {'start': '1894.225', 'end': '1898.162', 'text': 'text, that to whom God'}, {'start': '1897.729', 'end': '1899.630', 'text': 'wanted to make known the'}, {'start': '1898.229', 'end': '1902.600', 'text': 'riches of his glory, and when I'}, {'start': '1899.697', 'end': '1906.137', 'text': 'said, I attended church.'}, {'start': '1902.667', 'end': '1909.206', 'text': 'Professor is going to be a Christian without'}, {'start': '1906.204', 'end': '1909.206', 'text': 'being one, it'}, {'start': '1911.075', 'end': '1915.980', 'text': "is a reality.  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By'}, {'start': '3217.547', 'end': '3221.351', 'text': 'the pure affection of his will.'}, {'start': '3220.115', 'end': '3223.252', 'text': 'The third element'}, {'start': '3221.417', 'end': '3226.155', 'text': 'we mention from three'}, {'start': '3223.319', 'end': '3230.526', 'text': 'to twelve is that we have obtained'}, {'start': '3226.222', 'end': '3232.762', 'text': 'an inheritance.  But that legacy'}, {'start': '3230.593', 'end': '3237.867', 'text': 'will remain for next'}, {'start': '3232.829', 'end': '3237.867', 'text': 'week, time has moved on.'}, {'start': '3240.003', 'end': '3249.345', 'text': 'How can we know if'}, {'start': '3245.208', 'end': '3250.713', 'text': 'there is such discernment?  That'}, {'start': '3249.412', 'end': '3253.983', 'text': 'wisdom and discernment'}, {'start': '3250.780', 'end': '3253.983', 'text': 'in us.'}, {'start': '3254.351', 'end': '3259.055', 'text': 'How are we leading our'}, {'start': '3256.019', 'end': '3262.825', 'text': 'lives?  Sometimes we are'}, {'start': '3259.122', 'end': '3265.628', 'text': 'branded as sanctimonious, the'}, {'start': '3262.892', 'end': '3267.563', 'text': 'church is branded as'}, {'start': '3265.695', 'end': '3269.732', 'text': 'Christians, when we'}, {'start': '3267.630', 'end': '3270.800', 'text': 'talk about these things of'}, {'start': '3269.799', 'end': '3273.202', 'text': 'holiness, we are'}, {'start': '3270.867', 'end': '3275.038', 'text': 'branded as sanctimonious, of'}, {'start': '3273.269', 'end': '3277.073', 'text': 'all those things because'}, {'start': '3275.105', 'end': '3279.142', 'text': 'how can they believe that they can become'}, {'start': '3277.140', 'end': '3281.010', 'text': 'saints?  Well, there is'}, {'start': '3279.209', 'end': '3282.645', 'text': 'a demand in the scripture to be'}, {'start': '3281.077', 'end': '3284.080', 'text': 'holy because I am holy, without'}, {'start': '3282.711', 'end': '3285.815', 'text': 'holiness no one will see the Lord,'}, {'start': '3284.147', 'end': '3287.784', 'text': 'that does not mean that you and I'}, {'start': '3285.881', 'end': '3289.719', 'text': 'are going to be without sin, the'}, {'start': '3287.851', 'end': '3292.722', 'text': 'point is going to be or is going to lie in'}, {'start': '3289.786', 'end': '3295.124', 'text': 'how I fight, what is that fight like,'}, {'start': '3292.789', 'end': '3297.493', 'text': 'eh, eh, inside of me?'}, {'start': '3295.191', 'end': '3299.962', 'text': 'That is that fierce struggle'}, {'start': '3297.560', 'end': '3303.099', 'text': 'that we have against'}, {'start': '3300.029', 'end': '3303.099', 'text': 'sin.'}, {'start': '3309.172', 'end': '3310.539', 'text': 'How is our journey'}, {'start': '3309.939', 'end': '3311.340', 'text': 'then before these truths,'}, {'start': '3310.606', 'end': '3312.742', 'text': 'this mystery that has been'}, {'start': '3311.407', 'end': '3313.476', 'text': 'revealed through these'}, {'start': '3312.809', 'end': '3315.578', 'text': 'elements that we have mentioned,'}, {'start': '3313.543', 'end': '3318.114', 'text': 'intelligence, wisdom? How?'}, {'start': '3315.645', 'end': '3320.850', 'text': 'There was a blindness in us and'}, {'start': '3318.181', 'end': '3322.652', 'text': 'the Lord opened our eyes.'}, {'start': '3320.917', 'end': '3328.324', 'text': 'May the Lord help us, brothers,'}, {'start': '3322.719', 'end': '3331.761', 'text': 'to meditate on these things, and may'}, {'start': '3328.391', 'end': '3333.930', 'text': 'the Lord continue to bless us'}, {'start': '3331.828', 'end': '3336.699', 'text': 'through his word. Let us'}, {'start': '3333.997', 'end': '3340.836', 'text': 'pray.  Blessed God and Father who'}, {'start': '3336.766', 'end': '3340.836', 'text': 'art in heaven.'}, {'start': '3341.504', 'end': '3348.043', 'text': 'Once again Lord, I cannot'}, {'start': '3343.973', 'end': '3350.513', 'text': 'ignore, I cannot ignore'}, {'start': '3348.110', 'end': '3354.917', 'text': 'the reality Lord, that for'}, {'start': '3350.580', 'end': '3354.917', 'text': 'a mind as'}, {'start': '3355.452', 'end': '3360.589', 'text': 'weak as mine Lord'}, {'start': '3361.791', 'end': '3367.964', 'text': 'these truths are so immense'}, {'start': '3367.096', 'end': '3369.966', 'text': 'but that within all that'}, {'start': '3368.031', 'end': '3372.702', 'text': 'weakness in my Lord I can'}, {'start': '3370.033', 'end': '3375.205', 'text': 'see all the wonders that you'}, {'start': '3372.769', 'end': '3376.439', 'text': 'have done in your church, in your'}, {'start': '3375.271', 'end': '3379.208', 'text': 'people, through your'}, {'start': '3376.506', 'end': '3383.012', 'text': 'sacrifice we can Lord'}, {'start': '3379.275', 'end': '3385.348', 'text': 'come to you Lord and we'}, {'start': '3383.079', 'end': '3387.984', 'text': 'can rest in the fact that we'}, {'start': '3385.414', 'end': '3389.619', 'text': 'have no one else to'}, {'start': '3388.051', 'end': '3392.355', 'text': 'turn to, Lord, because our'}, {'start': '3389.686', 'end': '3393.789', 'text': 'need many times uh we'}, {'start': '3392.422', 'end': '3395.958', 'text': 'think that it is economic, that it is'}, {'start': '3393.856', 'end': '3399.162', 'text': 'social, that it is cultural, that it'}, {'start': '3396.025', 'end': '3402.899', 'text': 'is uh of other types of things uh'}, {'start': '3399.229', 'end': '3405.034', 'text': 'but our greatest'}, {'start': '3402.966', 'end': '3407.103', 'text': 'need is spiritual it has to'}, {'start': '3405.101', 'end': '3409.005', 'text': 'do with you, it has to do'}, {'start': '3407.170', 'end': '3410.840', 'text': 'with our soul, it has to do'}, {'start': '3409.072', 'end': '3412.575', 'text': 'with our salvation, it has to do'}, {'start': '3410.907', 'end': '3413.876', 'text': 'with your glory, it has to'}, {'start': '3412.642', 'end': '3415.745', 'text': 'do with your kingdom Lord, and it'}, {'start': '3413.943', 'end': '3417.213', 'text': 'has pleased you to open the eyes'}, {'start': '3415.812', 'end': '3419.182', 'text': 'of our understanding so'}, {'start': '3417.280', 'end': '3422.051', 'text': 'that we can see the'}, {'start': '3419.249', 'end': '3426.823', 'text': 'wonders of your law.  Help us'}, {'start': '3422.117', 'end': '3428.391', 'text': 'every day, Lord, to be able to model'}, {'start': '3426.890', 'end': '3429.826', 'text': 'and to be able to exhibit all these'}, {'start': '3428.458', 'end': '3431.260', 'text': 'truths, Lord, and as'}, {'start': '3429.893', 'end': '3433.095', 'text': 'we recognize that we are not'}, {'start': '3431.327', 'end': '3435.298', 'text': 'perfect, as we recognize,'}, {'start': '3433.162', 'end': '3436.933', 'text': 'Lord, that we are still in this'}, {'start': '3435.365', 'end': '3439.402', 'text': 'nature, in this body of'}, {'start': '3437.000', 'end': '3441.871', 'text': 'death.  Therefore, Lord,'}, {'start': '3439.469', 'end': '3446.308', 'text': 'we turn to you'}, {'start': '3441.938', 'end': '3446.308', 'text': 'desperately in need.'}, {'start': '3447.210', 'end': '3451.714', 'text': 'Urgent that we need'}, {'start': '3448.878', 'end': '3453.182', 'text': 'Lord the help of your Holy'}, {'start': '3451.781', 'end': '3455.251', 'text': 'Spirit Lord to'}, {'start': '3453.249', 'end': '3457.320', 'text': 'guide us, to reprove us,'}, {'start': '3455.318', 'end': '3458.888', 'text': 'to intercede before the'}, {'start': '3457.386', 'end': '3464.293', 'text': 'Father and as he does with'}, {'start': '3458.955', 'end': '3465.728', 'text': 'unspeakable groans in that'}, {'start': '3464.360', 'end': '3468.531', 'text': 'attitude we come to you'}, {'start': '3465.795', 'end': '3470.366', 'text': 'Lord Be with us, for us'}, {'start': '3468.597', 'end': '3473.970', 'text': ', in us, despite'}, {'start': '3470.433', 'end': '3474.570', 'text': 'us.  We beg you.'}, {'start': '3474.037', 'end': '3480.743', 'text': 'Bless, Lord, those who'}, {'start': '3474.637', 'end': '3480.976', 'text': 'have heard'}, {'start': '3480.810', 'end': '3480.976', 'text': 'this'}, {'start': '3481.845', 'end': '3486.349', 'text': 'broadcast, Lord,'}, {'start': '3483.680', 'end': '3490.319', 'text': 'this study, Lord, we pray'}, {'start': '3486.416', 'end': '3492.822', 'text': 'that if it pleases you, Lord, to'}, {'start': '3490.386', 'end': '3494.156', 'text': 'touch the understanding and give'}, {'start': '3492.889', 'end': '3497.226', 'text': 'wisdom and discernment to'}, {'start': '3494.223', 'end': '3499.929', 'text': 'someone, Lord, reach'}, {'start': '3497.293', 'end': '3501.797', 'text': 'someone with salvation.'}, {'start': '3499.996', 'end': '3503.933', 'text': 'Give us, Lord, the ability,'}, {'start': '3501.864', 'end': '3506.002', 'text': 'Lord, to retain'}, {'start': '3504.000', 'end': '3507.970', 'text': 'these truths, Lord, because we do not'}, {'start': '3506.068', 'end': '3510.439', 'text': 'want to be'}, {'start': '3508.037', 'end': '3513.376', 'text': 'forgetful hearers, we want to be'}, {'start': '3510.506', 'end': '3515.745', 'text': 'doers of your word, Lord,'}, {'start': '3513.443', 'end': '3518.648', 'text': 'to Sister Marina, to Brother'}, {'start': '3515.812', 'end': '3520.550', 'text': 'Luis who are there, Lord, in'}, {'start': '3518.715', 'end': '3522.385', 'text': 'matters of health.  Bless'}, {'start': '3520.617', 'end': '3524.120', 'text': 'Sister Maggie, Lord, as we'}, {'start': '3522.452', 'end': '3526.455', 'text': 'await her speedy return to'}, {'start': '3524.187', 'end': '3527.823', 'text': 'us. A speedy'}, {'start': '3526.522', 'end': '3531.794', 'text': 'recovery is also awaited by'}, {'start': '3527.890', 'end': '3534.730', 'text': 'our Sister Marta. For'}, {'start': '3531.861', 'end': '3536.032', 'text': 'the others, Lord, who have also been'}, {'start': '3534.797', 'end': '3538.000', 'text': 'absent today, we'}, {'start': '3536.099', 'end': '3539.602', 'text': 'pray to you, Lord, if there is any'}, {'start': '3538.067', 'end': '3543.306', 'text': 'difficulty, that you be'}, {'start': '3539.669', 'end': '3545.508', 'text': 'among them.  I asked you thank you'}, {'start': '3543.373', 'end': '3547.243', 'text': 'for everything blessed father in the'}, {'start': '3545.575', 'end': '3551.480', 'text': 'name of Jesus Christ your'}, {'start': '3547.310', 'end': '3554.650', 'text': 'beloved son we pray amen Amen.  God'}, {'start': '3551.547', 'end': '3557.587', 'text': "bless you brothers.  We'll"}, {'start': '3554.717', 'end': '3557.587', 'text': 'be there then, right next door.'}]