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| Sheila Walsh: One Step at a Time | 5 Minutes With Jesus | June 18, 2026
- I spent so many years thinking that it was up to me
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- To finish the work that christ had started.
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- But it is not when jesus said it is finished.
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- That's exactly what he meant.
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- Christ completed the work.
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- But now, until we see him face to face,
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- We get to present our bodies, as it says in romans 12.
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- And so, dear brothers and sisters,
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- I plead with you to give your bodies to god
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- Because of all he has done for you.
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- Let them be a living
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- And holy sacrifice, the kind he will find acceptable.
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- This is truly the way to worship him.
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- If you like me, if you said, let's get discouraged
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- With yourself, remember this.
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- It was jesus who began this work in you,
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- And it's jesus who will see it all the way through.
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- I am a
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- Huge fan of paul's letter to the philippians.
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- It's really clear.
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- You can tell you really love the church there.
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- And even though as he's writing, he's a prisoner in rome.
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- His letter, the whole letter is literally dripping and joy.
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- Philippi was a significant place at that time.
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- The city was founded by philip, the father of alexander
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- The great, and at once been rich with gold and silver mines.
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- So it was a very wealthy place.
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- Had also been raised
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- To the status of a roman colony, which was a huge deal then,
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- And it usually meant that maybe 300 or so veterans
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- And their families settled there and gave it great status.
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- With rome.
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- If you read about paul's second missionary journey in acts 16,
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- His time in philippi was
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- Interesting, to say the least, and show the power of the gospel
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- To change every man, woman or child.
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- And that one chapter, logan paul, meets three people
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- Who find themselves in very different places in life.
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- One was lydia, a rich woman, a seller of purple cloth,
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- One of the most expensive things in the world at that time.
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- One was a demon possessed slave girl
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- Who paul prayed for, and she was delivered.
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- And one after paul was arrested for delivering that girl,
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- His actual jailer.
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- Here he was thrown in jail for delivering her
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- Through their encounter with paul.
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- All three of these people came to know jesus.
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- The gospel of christ makes it clear that no matter
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- Where you start or stand in this life, rich or poor,
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- Slave or free, black or white,
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- Republican or democrat, there's only one way to be saved.
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- And that is through trusting in the shed blood of jesus.
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- In this first chapter of his letter to the philippian church.
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- He states, one of my husband's favorite verses
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- Is quite a promise.
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- Philippians one verse six says this,
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- And i am sure that he who began a good work in
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- You will bring it to completion at the day of jesus christ.
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- And william barkley's commentary on the letters
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- To the philippians, colossians, and thessalonians,
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- He shares a picture that i would not have seen by myself.
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- It's to do with these two words.
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- In the original greek language, the word for began
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- And the word for completion.
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- It's fascinating.
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- The word for began is our akemi.
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- Forgive my pronunciation.
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- And the word for complete is a telo.
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- Those two words that paul uses here are words
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- That denote the beginning
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- And end of a greek ritualistic sacrifice that they use
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- In worship of their gods.
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- So these two words would be very familiar to his audience.
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- Paul is writing to them and to us, and using these words
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- To help us see that everything we believe, everything we know,
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- Everything we've been given, is because of christ's sacrifice.
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- In other words,
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- We did nothing to begin or deserve the sacrifice.
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- And there's nothing we can do to complete it.
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- That is all the work of the lord and what he accomplished
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- On the cross.
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- I spent so many years thinking that it was up to me
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- To finish the work that christ had started.
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- But it is not when jesus said it is finished.
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- That's exactly what he meant.
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- Christ completed the work.
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- But now, until we see him face to face,
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- We get to present our bodies, as it says in romans 12.
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- And so, dear brothers and sisters,
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- I plead with you to give your bodies to god
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- Because of all he has done for you.
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- Let them be a living
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- And holy sacrifice, the kind he will find acceptable.
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- This is truly the way to worship him.
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- If you like me, if you said, let's get discouraged
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- With yourself, remember this.
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- It was jesus who began this work in you,
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- And it's jesus who will see it all the way through.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, thank you for that promise.
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- So often we've paid too much attention
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- To what we're doing right or doing wrong, and we feel like
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- We fall and we fail and we don't live up to things.
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- But lord, i want to thank you for the work that you began,
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- Every single one of our lives,
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- And that you have committed yourself
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- To completing that work until we see you face to face.
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- Help us to rest in that truth today in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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