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In the name of Jesus.
Amen. See what kind

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of love the Father
has given us extols

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the Apostle that we
should be called not

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children of the
devil but children of

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God. How greatly
comforting this is for

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we know that what
God says by His

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almighty word this
world was made He

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spoke and it was so
therefore what God

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in His love for us
says what He calls us

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that is what we most
certainly are. The

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so are we but do
we see that free does

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not mean that we
then are free to live

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our lives however we
choose to live them.

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No free means that
what previously owned

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and defined us does
so no longer. Free

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means that our God
has freed us from our

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previous bondage to
this world's darkness

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so that we might then be what

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He in His love for us
has always deigned

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for us to be namely
children. Children of

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God children of the
light. Therefore from

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one kind of belonging
to another from

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our previous bondage
to sin death and the

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devil to the life
that we live in

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the house of God's
Son that is the nature

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of his calling that is what He

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summons us to. For
such a life we gladly

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look not to ourselves
what good would

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that do instead we
look to Him. After all

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who knows better
than He what this life

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that we live should
be in order for His

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happiness to be our

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happiness. From one
house from the awful

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load of death's
dreadful servitude to

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another house to
His house so what

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defines Him might
define you and me that

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is where He in His
love is taking us that

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is how it must go for a slave

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abides not in the
house of our God right

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a son and only a
son abides declares

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Jesus. So what must
God do what does He

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do in His great love
for us all He makes

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us to be His children
when He gives us a

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brother who is
God's Son. Go tell my

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brothers declares
the risen Jesus I am

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ascending to my
Father and to your Father

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to my God and to your
God for we who have

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as our brother He
who is God's Son

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also have his Father
as our Father. For

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this reason this
troubling world of ours

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troubled and
troubling deceived and

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deceiving genuinely
malevolent this

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world seems to
be bent on its own

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destruction it is
bent on bending us to

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to its will bent on
taking everyone and

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everything down
with it. For this reason

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the world in which
we live does not know

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us declares the
Apostle. Has this not

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become increasingly
painfully clear in

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our recent experience?
The distinguishing

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things of our God
and heaven above are

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not just alien to the
world in which we

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live they are primitive
abhorrent bigoted

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hateful and why why does the

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world not know us
asks the Apostle it

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does not know us
because it does not

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know Him our Lord.
The love siblings of

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our Lord Jesus
Christ let not your

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hearts be troubled
what he who knows us

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best deigns for
us is exceedingly

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surpassingly greater
than anything that

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any of us can feebly
imagine. What He and

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His love for us calls
us that even now is

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what we are
children whether the

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world approves of
such a thing or life

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otherwise leaves
us feeling that way or

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not it matters not.
Believe not the

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darkness that resides
within or without

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the darkness lies
to you but your God

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does not what he
calls you you are. Even

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though the children
that we even now are

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is not yet a manifest
thing right I mean

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have we noticed
who we truly are in

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Christ is not yet
a manifest thing

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observes the Apostle
for faith is not the

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conviction of that
which is seen.

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Faith is the conviction
of that which is

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not seen. Therefore
you and I in the

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final analysis do
not see what our God

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makes us to be when
He summons us to it.

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Not yet. Even so
declares the Apostle

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what our God calls
us that is what we

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can bank on that is
who we are even if we

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don't see it quite
yet. What we will

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be we are. What we
are that is what we

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will be. Therefore
when he comes again to

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judge the living and
the dead what then

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will we be as is he
we will be declares

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the Apostle as as
is He is what we will

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see as is He is what
we will be for only

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he who shares in
who the Son of God is

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when the sonship
that defines Him

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defines you and I
as well only then can

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one hope to see
Jesus as he must in the

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end be seen. Now
everyone who holds to

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this kind of a hope
declares the Apostle

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is pure just as Jesus
himself is pure is

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righteous just as
that one is righteous

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for that is what
participation in Him

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means. When in the
end He has had His way

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when in the end He
has had His say this

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too finally we will
see this too we will

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be when in the end
when with His return

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we are all blessed
to see Him just as He

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is. Even so come
quickly Lord Jesus the

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grace of the Lord
Jesus be with us all

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in the name of the
Father and of the Son

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and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.