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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Groans and Glory | May 24, 2026
- And with us.
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- He takes hold of soon
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- When we pray that which we're praying about.
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- I don't want to confuse you soon
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- With now goes on the other side.
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- The holy spirit goes right where we are, right?
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- What we're praying about, what what we're concerned about.
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- Right.
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- What we're joining about right
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- Where we want leadership about.
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- And it takes hold of us.
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- And the holy spirit prays
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- When we don't know how to pray
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- That, well, i know how to pray.
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- No we don't, man.
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- If god had asked my prayer, i would be married
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- When i was a teenager to a totally different girl.
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- Thank god he didn't answer that prayer.
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- We've been studying the book of romans,
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- But we've really narrowed it down to the greatest chapter.
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- Perhaps in all the bible.
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- We called it the goat, the greatest of all time.
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- And we said that if you and i get
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- Romans chapter eight, we sort of get it.
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- We've got the foundation of becoming a christian,
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- Living the christian life and the promise
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- Of paradise with thee, forever and forever.
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- It's all wrapped up in these 39 verses,
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- And it is a thrilling thing
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- To understand and to comprehend and to get some things
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- Incorporate it into our minds.
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- Now remember where we are.
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- This is how he set us free in jesus christ.
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- Here's the holy spirit, here's how we live that life.
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- And then he goes back and he says a topical sentence
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- That we need to understand. that's verse 18.
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- Listen to it.
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- Paul says, for i consider that the sufferings
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- Of the present time are not worthy
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- To be compared with the glory which shall be revealed.
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- So here we have
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- Groaning,
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- Suffering, and glory together.
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- Now think about it.
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- Remember, the primary thing we're learning in
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- Romans chapter eight is that we're in the family, right?
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- We got it. we're there.
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- We we we have been inherited.
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- We're like a brother or sister to jesus christ.
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- And we can pray to god above father.
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- I mean, what
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- If you want to
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- Andre to somebody that's really got all the stuff
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- In the world
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- And man,
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- You're really close to them and they have everything
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- Available.
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- Just think now, because of jesus christ, we can say, dad
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- To thy heavenly father.
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- Just settle in on that.
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- See how magnificent that is?
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- How supernatural that is, how powerful that is.
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- But now, as he's given us this assurance,
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- Remember the theme of romans eight.
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- It shows us how the holy spirit works.
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- But primarily paul is saying, you are safe.
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- You have eternal safety.
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- Everything you have in christ, you can't lose it.
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- It is there with you now and forever and forever.
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- So he's talking about eternal security,
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- And now he does a bizarre thing.
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- He talks about suffering.
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- Paul is here saying, look,
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- You're going to have some groaning in this life.
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- Anybody want to debate with that?
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- I could list all kind of groaning.
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- The word groaning here means man.
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- It is a death cry.
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- It is a ferocious thing.
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- It is.
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- It is pain that comes from health
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- Problems, from death and members of your family,
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- From situations in your vocation,
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- From when you're brokenhearted, when a friend betrays you.
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- I mean, it is all built in there.
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- We groan sometime verbally, sometime inwardly.
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- But in this life there will be groaning.
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- I take my life
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- Just quickly in the relationship thing.
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- My dad has left this earth.
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- My mother's left this earth.
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- My younger brother, my wife, my granddaughter.
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- You think there's not groaning involved
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- In that in a human perspective?
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- And by the way, you say what?
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- I've never experienced all that.
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- Just live a little while.
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- You will.
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- Guaranteed.
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- Write it down.
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- And so therefore, there will be groaning.
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- Vocational. all of it all.
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- And here he says the groaning that we have today.
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- And that's for christian and non-christian, that's groaning.
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- It's nothing compared with following me closely
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- With the glory that is to come.
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- He is groaning, his glory.
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- And paul talks about in his second corinthians,
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- He says, we have these little bitty,
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- You know, peanut things in life.
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- It sounds big to me.
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- He said, these little peanut things,
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- These little temporary problems
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- We have and all this vast scope of life.
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- It's nothing compared to the glory that's going to come.
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- And the word glory is a is a fabulous word.
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- It's meant it all the way through the bible.
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- Remember we said it means weight
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- Compared to the weight, the significance
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- That we're going to have all of this we go through that,
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- We cry and we lament, and we have all kinds
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- Of challenging situations in every area of life.
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- Paul says that's not anything, anything.
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- It's peanuts compared to the weight of glory
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- And glory has about it a a beauty,
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- A joy, a radiance that should kinda there.
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- All of this is nothing compared to the glory
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- That's going to come.
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- Paul is saying, whatever we're going through now.
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- This groaning,
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- You can't even compare it to the glory
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- That he gives us and the glory that will come.
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- That's the introduction.
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- Now we get down to business.
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- That's the thesis sentence.
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- Look at verse number 19.
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- We'll go all the way through.
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- If we can do verse 27 we're going to see here
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- Groaning.
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- Groaning that comes to creation
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- In hope.
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- By the way, let me define the word
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- Hope biblically for you.
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- I don't like the word hope.
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- I don't use the word
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- Hope much if you listen to me, because you have to explain it
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- Because you and i think hope is maybe wishful thinking.
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- It would be nice, i hope.
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- I imagine i don't know,
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- The biblical word for hope is not that word.
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- It's used as hope.
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- But hope biblically means and
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- Anticipated exciting reality.
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- Does that change the mean?
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- Hope in the bible means man.
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- I am thrilled about what is going to happen
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- And i am confident it will happen.
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- And i'm telling you, you can count on it happening.
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- That's what the word hope in the bible means.
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- Not all this. well, it would be nice.
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- You got it.
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- So here we see groaning
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- Of creation in hope.
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- And look at it in verse number 19
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- For the earliest expectation of creation.
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- By the way, that means tiptoe.
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- Creation is on tiptoe.
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- This cosmos eagerly waits
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- For the revealing of the sons of god.
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- Creation is groaning, but creation is eagerly
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- Awaiting for the sons of god.
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- What the world does that mean?
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- It means when adam and eve sin in the garden,
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- A part of the penalty for that was the fall.
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- But human beings did not fall.
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- All of creation came under the curse.
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- Remember that now adam had to make a living
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- By working in the ground, and the ground had been cursed.
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- That was the curse of on creation.
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- And therefore it's saying creation is on tiptoe.
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- Looking forward to the sons of god.
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- What is that moment?
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- That is when christ comes
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- And brings down the curtain of history.
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- And we all who are in christ will receive our
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- Resurrection bodies. remember?
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- This body is not going to make it.
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- And then we'll live forever on a new heaven and a new earth,
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- A whole new creation.
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- Revelation 21 i saw a new heaven and a new earth.
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- The first heaven, the first earth had passed away.
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- And i saw the holy city, the new jerusalem, coming down
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- From god like a bride adorned for her husband.
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- This is the creation that will come.
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- A bride adorned for her cousin.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- I have never seen a bride that was not beautiful.
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- A couple of them barely made it.
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- But i'm telling you, that is what we're seeing.
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- A new heaven and earth and creation is is groaning
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- Right now in the fallen state in which we find it.
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- And look at the rest of the verses here.
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- But the growth of creation, but it's groaning in
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- There's our word. hope
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- For the
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- Creation was subjected to futility.
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- That's the curse.
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- Not willingly, but because of him
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- Who subjected in hope, who put the curse on the world.
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- God did.
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- When adam and eve rebelled and took over their own lives.
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- And therefore, there is a futility in creation today.
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- See the rest of it, because the creation itself
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- Also will be delivered from the bondage
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- Of corruption in the glorious liberty.
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- There's our word, freedom of the children of god.
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- For we know that the whole creation
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- Groans and labors with birth pains together.
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- Until now,
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- The world in which we live is a fallen world,
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- And the whole creation is groaning.
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- It's the crying out of the earth
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- For redemption, for a new birth.
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- And that's what happens when christ comes.
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- We will live here
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- With our resurrection body in a new heaven and a new earth
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- That god's going to bring down for us at that time,
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- Just like he created this earth.
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- That is the groaning that we hear.
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- All the earth is groaning in hope.
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- What does that
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- Hope mean and assured future that will be beautiful and see.
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- We see groaning and glory working together again.
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- So we see the creation is groaning
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- In hope for that day,
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- In the resurrection day, as we are resurrected.
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- So this world will be resurrected.
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- That is a fabulous promise that the bible god gives to us.
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- Look at the next thing there.
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- Not only does the creation groan, but we groan.
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- You and i grown and look.
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- By the way, the latter part, look at verse 22.
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- It says with birth pains.
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- Other words, the groaning of creation
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- Is like birth pains.
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- When your wife was having a baby, you didn't say,
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- I want to take a picture
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- To show how she looked when she was having a baby.
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- No no no no no no.
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- That's just the groaning,
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- The pains of birth that paul is talking about.
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- Here we take a picture
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- When that baby is born in the mother's arm,
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- And there's a radiance and a glory there
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- That we can't even describe.
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- There's not adjectives enough to explain it.
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- You see, that's the pain that we go through now in creation,
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- Anticipating for the birth of that new creation,
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- When i was a boy, there
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- Was a popular little song called mother.
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- Derived from the acrostic motif.
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- Though the lyrics are not christian.
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- They are certainly universal in their application
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- Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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- I had to
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- Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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- Would you believe that?
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- And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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- Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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- With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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- For mother's day only.
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- So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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- Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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- Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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- To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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- To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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- To get you a copy.
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- Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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- And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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- Or give one to your mother.
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- And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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- Also we
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- Grown as christians,
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- But we also who have the first fruits of the spirit,
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- Even we ourselves groan within ourselves.
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- What does that mean?
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- It means that we have a sample.
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- We have just a sample of the glory right now in christ.
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- We don't have all of it.
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- We have a sample of it.
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- It's just the beginning of it.
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- It's just a taste of it.
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- It's just i like to say it's it's orders
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- Before the glory that is on the way.
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- First fruits, by the way, that's all the jews
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- Would understand that.
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- Because when they had a harvest,
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- The first fruits they would grow,
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- They would take and they would wave it in the air.
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- That's a wave offering.
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- They'd wave it in the air.
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- And that would say, this belongs to god.
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- Therefore, the whole harvest which will yet come
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- Belongs to god. you got it.
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- Oh, it's a beautiful, beautiful passage there.
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- First fruits of the spirit, all in the holy spirit.
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- Even we ourselves groan within, eagerly
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- Awaiting there again that tiptoe for the adoption.
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- Wait a minute.
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- We thought we'd already been adopted.
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- Hadn't we gone through that?
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- Is paul confused?
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- He just said we were adopting the family of god.
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- If you were here last week and we have full right of
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- Children, more rights really than a natural
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- Born son or daughter, and now he said,
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- We are adopted, but look at the rest of phrase
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- And the redemption of the body
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- Waiting for the traditional.
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- We are already adopted.
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- In other words, in the bible there is that already,
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- And there's that not yet.
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- Already we're adopting the family,
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- And we have all the privileges here limited on this earth.
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- But there will be a day when there will be
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- A resurrection of the body, and we'll be fully adopted.
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- We will, as paul says
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- In corinthians, we will know as we have been known
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- In that fabulous no, as we have been known.
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- But in the meantime, we're going to have
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- Some affliction now also, it tells us, follow me.
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- We know that creation groans in hope
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- For what's going to happen is sure,
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- We know that we as christians grown in hope.
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- And the word hope is in both those sections.
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- Now we come and says, the holy spirit groans.
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- Well, look at verse 26.
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- Likewise, the spirit
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- Also helps our in our weaknesses,
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- For we do not know what we ought to pray,
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- But the spirit itself makes the intercession
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- For us with groaning, which cannot be endured.
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- And by the way, the holy spirit groans
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- And rolls up his sleeves.
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- Get that
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- Creation groans,
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- Hoping for what come out, you creation.
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- We groan, knowing, hoping, confident.
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- What's going to come out.
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- I read about,
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- But the holy spirit groans and rolls up his sleeves.
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- What am i talking about?
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- That's the little word helps.
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- The holy spirit groans on our behalf and helps us.
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- Helps is a little bitty word.
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- Now don't get blown away.
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- There's a big old greek word.
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- The greek word is soon.
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- Any time who helps, it will be soon.
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- And it's a big word.
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- But man, it is one of those.
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- Remember i talked about pregnant words.
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- We look forward to understand the bible.
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- You find those big words soon means with anti means.
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- On the other side.
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- Lombardo tie means to take hold of.
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- What's this all about?
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- It says we don't know how to pray.
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- We're not good prayers.
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- We don't know what to say.
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- We're not sure it's going to get through.
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- But the holy spirit comes and goes on
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- The other side, where we are
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- And with us.
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- He takes hold of soon
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- When we pray that which we're praying about.
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- I don't want to confuse you soon
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- With now goes on the other side.
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- The holy spirit goes right where we are, right?
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- What we're praying about, what what we're concerned about.
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- Right.
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- What we're joining about right
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- Where we want leadership about.
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- And it takes hold of us.
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- And the holy spirit prays
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- When we don't know how to pray
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- That, well, i know how to pray.
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- No we don't, man.
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- If god had asked my prayer, i would be married
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- When i was a teenager to a totally different girl.
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- Thank god he didn't answer that prayer.
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- I can tell you
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- A lot of stupid, foolish,
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- Cursory prayers i've uttered, and they were absolutely
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- Ridiculous in the light of what i know now.
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- So when we're praying, and a lot of times in a crisis time
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- And in a time of indecision, we just don't know how to pray
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- And we're afraid we'll say it wrong.
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- Don't worry about it.
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- Because if we're in christ, the holy spirit comes over
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- On the other side
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- Where we are with our mumbling and our groaning and our
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- Not knowing how to pray.
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- And he takes hold of us, and he makes the right
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- Intercession to the father.
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- The holy spirit takes our word, and with groanings
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- Our groanings, he takes our groanings.
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- And they go up to
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- Jesus christ, who's at the right hand of god.
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- And jesus christ interprets him to the father.
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- What is the holy spirit do?
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- When you and i pray?
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- The holy spirit prays for you and i
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- The prayer that followed me carefully.
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- We would pray if we knew everything.
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- God knows.
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- Did you get that?
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- That's so big,
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- You ought to jump up and down and say, i get it, i get it.
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- If we knew everything, god knows,
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- Man, how we know how to pray, wouldn't we?
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- That's what the holy spirit does for us.
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- That's that big old pregnant word.
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- Soon, annie lombardo tyler takes hold of us.
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- The holy spirit prays for us.
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- And that is so thrilling to me.
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- That is so magnificent to me.
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- We don't how to pray, but the groaning,
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- The holy spirit groans
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- And he rolls up his sleeve and said, don't worry about it.
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- I've got it.
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- You're in my family.
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- And he takes that petition to god.
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- You say, does prayer change god? no.
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- Prayer
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- Changes circumstances. yes.
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- And we are to pray with importunity.
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- That means we.
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- We pray and we pray and we pray.
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- We say, well, i don't believe god is paying any attention.
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- No, we pray and we pray.
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- And first thessalonians four tells us to pray
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- Without ceasing. how do you do that?
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- It means all the time.
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- And i don't want to be super pious with you.
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- I can be laughing
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- Or doing a lot of things, and there's just a sense of
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- Of prayer, you know, lord be with you.
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- I don't it always just help god, this man,
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- This situation, this woman, this couple, this life.
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- Help me right now to get through.
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- I mean, we just breathe these little prayers constantly.
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- Not with the pious wine,
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- But we just pray confidently.
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- And it's sort of an unceasing this is a part of him
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- Being the center of your life, in my life.
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- And sometimes someday
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- It'll become so natural you won't even think about it.
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- I was looking at this patch. i say, you know what?
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- Oh, that's what i'm doing.
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- That's that spirit that's within us.
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- And so we know that we pray
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- And we remember to whom we're praying only.
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- Oh, god, i command you in the name of jesus.
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- That is so blasphemous.
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- It's just hard to me
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- To handle. man.
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- Who are we talking to?
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- Man, who are we listening for?
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- We lose the all and the fear of god.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, you've lost everything.
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- So we are to pray without ceasing.
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- And we're to listen when we pray.
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- And then we know that
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- God will come and take all of our mumblings.
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- And with
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- The groaning of the holy spirit to the heavenly father,
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- Our prayers will have.
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- If we are righteous folks, you know, say the effective
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- Prayer of a fervent, righteous man or woman is powerful.
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- If somebody is just slopping through this life,
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- Their prayers doesn't mean a hill of beans.
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- We want people who are praying
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- And living a righteous life, not perfect.
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- Somebody who is living that kind of life knowing
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- Their filled with the spirit,
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- Knowing they're not perfect, but living that kind of arrive.
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- That's the kind of people i won't pray for me
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- And praying for you and praying for our world.
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- So prayer is a powerful thing.
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- It is a thrilling thing.
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- And by the way, you're to pray all day with all. dear
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- Heavenly father, o righteous, omnipotent one who dwells.
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- No no no, don't quote scripture to god.
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- He already knows all of it.
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- Did you know that
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- The desert fathers?
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- You need to read them.
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- Mandy's godly men and women of another age
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- Locked himself up in the desert of egypt,
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- And they lived there for decade after decade.
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- And they prayed.
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- And you read their writings and they said they learned
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- How to pray short little prayers.
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- Short little sincere prayers.
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- Don't worry about all the verbiage,
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- All the
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- Just wait and talk.
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- Those prayers reveal your heart, your your into.
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- This prayer is getting naked before god
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- And he, the holy spirit
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- Takes that and for he just lets it, takes wings
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- And takes our little mumbling, groaning prayers.
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- That's what the holy spirit does.
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- And then look at the end of this.
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- It says that leads us to god's will.
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- And next week i'm going to talk about god's will.
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- That's our subject.
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- How do you know god's will, god's plan for your life?
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- My life now, in whatever stage of life we're in
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- And see how fabulous this is for us.
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- Groanings of prelude
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- To glory and there's no comparison.
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- And we know that the creation groans bobbled
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- In hope of there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth.
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- Hope meaning the confidence that that will be.
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- And we know also that we grown as christians,
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- But we know that groaning is just a foretaste
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- Of the
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- Glory that we'll have somewhat here on this earth,
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- And we'll have the
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- Full expanse of it in heaven when it comes.
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- And then the holy spirit groans,
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- The holy spirit groans on our behalf
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- And causes you and me to pray the prayer
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- That we would pray if we knew everything.
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- God knows.
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- When i was a boy, there was a popular
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- Little song called mother.
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- Derived from the acrostic motif.
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- Though the lyrics are not christian.
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- They are certainly universal in their application
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- Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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- I had to
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- Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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- Would you believe that?
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- And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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- Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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- With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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- For mother's day only.
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- So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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- Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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- Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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- To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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- To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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- To get you a copy.
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- Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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- And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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- Or give one to your mother.
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- And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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