November 10, 2025 • 41 mins
What if the end of the story isn’t collapse but completion—where even death bows and love has the last word? Today we walk through 1 Corinthians 15:24–28 and explore how the resurrection set a chain reaction in motion that will culminate with Christ placing every enemy under His feet and presenting a restored kingdom to the Father. The promise isn’t abstract or distant; it is the framework for hope when life feels broken, and it answers our deepest fears about suffering, injustice, and loss.
We unpack the language of victory and the meaning behind “then comes the end,” taking time to explore why death is named as the last enemy and how believers can face mortality without terror. Along the way, we open a window into the Trinity—not as a puzzle to solve but as a portrait of God’s heart: the Father leading in love, the Son reigning and joyfully submitting, and the Spirit glorifying the Son. That vision makes “God all in all” more than a phrase; it becomes an invitation into union where holiness and mercy meet.
From there, we turn to everyday life. Colossians says you are complete in Christ, which dismantles the pressure to chase spiritual scarcity. Jesus’ teaching on the “single eye” reorients our gaze, helping us stop labeling every swing of the pendulum as good or bad and start tracing each moment back to a faithful King who works all things for our good. We share practical ways to test God’s promises, renew the mind, and live as a “living sacrifice” without drifting into burnout or performance. And we close with an honest call to surrender the very thing we fear to lose, trusting that the One who gave all for us is worthy of all from us.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:26):
Amen.
Today's message is called All InAll.
All in All.
They sing the song?
Now we're going to learn aboutit.
Okay.
We're in First Corinthianschapter 15.
We're going to be looking atverses 24 through 28.
First Corinthians.
And we're journeying throughFirst Corinthians every week.
We're going to we're going tobe, it only has 16 chapters, so
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we're going to be finishing upfairly soon.
Then we'll be jumping to an OldTestament book and going through
that one.
But I'm not going to tell youwhich one yet.
You have to wait and see.
Alright?
Okay.
Why is there pain in this world?
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Why is there suffering thatcan't be explained?
Why is there death?
Sickness?
Hatred.
Rejection.
Storms of nature and storms inthe culture.
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It seems like everywhere welook, there's something broken
or messed up.
And there's someone on everycorner offering their solution,
their drink, their drug, theirplan, their lifestyle.
And they say, What I got isgonna fix it.
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And it's all empty, it's allfalse, it's all a lie, it's all
gonna crash and burn.
And we see those flame outs allover the place.
We see them all the time.
Oh, this person couldn't keep ittogether.
That person finally gave up.
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The sadness finally got to thatone.
And each precious person thatfalls becomes yet another log on
the dumpster fire we call life.
And we still have to crawl ourway through every day.
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You're like, boy, this sermon isdown in the dumps.
But if you've ever cried outwhy, or even how long, or even
is there any real hope at all?
Then I would like to put on anew record and play a new song
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for you.
And it's it's called all in all.
It's God's answer and hissolution for all of it.
It's the only solution thattruly brings new life to what
was dead, hurting, broken, andsick.
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Jesus goes into the mud and theblood of death.
He goes and swimming in thebeer, and he swallows it all up
so that he can change it intolife.
That's what he accomplishes withthe resurrection from the dead.
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And that's what we're gonnalearn about today.
So, to set our context, in verse20 it said that, but now Christ
is risen from the dead.
So we're talking about theresurrection.
So Jesus makes us alive with himwhen he rises from the dead.
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And then at some point, Jesus isgonna come back from heaven.
Did you know that?
He's gonna come back, he's gonnabe the king of the world, he's
gonna, there's gonna be no onestanding up against him.
He is going to come backphysically, really, he's gonna
come back.
We call that the second coming.
Yeah, hallelujah.
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He'll be the best president,except he's not gonna be
president, he's gonna be farbeyond, right?
King, glorious king, right?
Well, that's that sets ourcontext of what we've been
talking about, the secondcoming, which is the kind of the
culmination of his resurrection.
And it says this, then comes theend.
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Ooh, that's a cool phrase.
Then comes the end, when hedelivers the kingdom to God the
Father, when he puts an end toall rule and all authority and
power, for he must reign till heputs all enemies under his feet.
The last enemy that will bedestroyed is death, for he has
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put all things under his feet,quoting.
But when he says, all things areput under him, it is evident
that he who put all things underhim is accepted.
Now, when all things are madesubject to him, then the Son
Himself will also be madesubject to him who put all
things under him, that God maybe all in all.
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What was that about?
Let's break it down.
How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
That's also how you study theBible.
Okay?
When you read a section andyou're like, what was that
about?
Just start breaking it down andtaking it, maybe not verse, but
maybe even phrase by phrase, andyou'll see that the Holy Spirit
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will teach you how to understandthe Bible.
So let's do that.
Then comes the end when hedelivers the kingdom to God the
Father.
This means the this is theculmination of God's perfect
plan.
Uh this is the end that Jesuswill deliver the kingdom to his
father.
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I love a good ending to a movie.
I love movies.
But it has to have a goodending.
You know, one where there's aresolution, right?
Where there's the ending.
And I get I get super fired upif there's no resolution or if I
don't understand the plot.
My wife can get super fired up.
Did you guys ever watch Tenet?
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This caused so many arguments inour house.
What is even the plot of thatmovie?
We have no idea.
Okay.
But if it doesn't have a goodending, I can take crazy plot as
long as it has like a goodending.
But if it doesn't have a goodending, man, I'm out.
Unless, unless it's acliffhanger.
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Who's down with a cliffhanger?
Yeah.
I like cliffhangers.
As long as I know they're gonnamake a second movie or a second
season.
And yes, I'm talking about you,Surface, from 2006.
Okay, so there was a show, andmy wife and I got super obsessed
with it, and we binged theentire first season in one
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night.
We stayed up all night till likefive, six in the morning.
It was it was one of the firstthings we did when we were
married, and we were so excitedfor the show, and we're just
like, oh, this it's like thiskid finds an egg and it turns
into be a like messy dinosaur inhis backyard, and oh, it's a
great show, and we're just likeall into it.
We're so excited, and then we'relike looking online when does
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season two come out?
Cancelled.
You have no idea thedisappointment, and we talk
about it all the time.
What's the greatestdisappointment we've ever
surface 2006?
Oh man.
Well, Jesus kind of gives us acliffhanger, doesn't he?
He he disappears and he says,I'll be back, like Arnold.
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And we're still waiting, right?
He rises from the dead, hechills for 40 days with all his
disciples.
We studied that last week.
Then boom, the movie's over,sequel's coming, he says.
But but what?
Right?
The sequel, the one where Jesusreturns as king and fixes
everything according to the willof God.
That sequel is called theKingdom.
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The kingdom, where men and Godare reunited with each other.
Man is the counterpart of God,finally filled with his spirit.
We're the bride of Christ, andall the sin that caused our
death and all the separationbetween us and God, it's removed
and destroyed forever.
Man, that's gonna be a goodmovie.
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Well, in Ephesians chapter 1,verse 10, we have another verse
that correlates with this one,and it says, That in the
dispensation of the fullness oftimes he might gather together
in one all things in Christ,both which are in heaven and are
on earth in him.
So Paul wrote of this gatheringtogether, this squishing things,
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you could call it.
All things in Christ.
It's summing up things.
He's saying we add up the thingsover here and we add up the
things and we add them alltogether, and it's gonna sum up,
and it's just gonna be Jesus.
Well, in 1 Corinthians, we lookforward to right here, we're
studying, we're look lookingforward when all things are
resolved in Christ, and hepresents it as a gift to God the
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Father, giving glory to God whoauthored this movie, this
eternal plan.
It's all going to be resolved orfixed or redeemed, you could
say.
Here's a quote (10:00):
In raising Christ from the dead, God has
set in motion a chain of eventsthat must culminate in the final
destruction of death, and thusof God's being once again, as in
eternity past, all in all.
When he puts an then our nextverse says, or our next little
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phrase, when he puts an end toall rule and all authority and
all power.
What does that mean?
Anything that rebels againstGod.
So there's things right now inthis world that are rebelling
against God, mainly people, butalso even nature.
You know, we have storms andtornadoes and all this stuff.
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All everything that rebelsagainst his perfect, peaceful
plan is going to be destroyed.
Anything that's ruined, hisperfect creation, anything
that's been used to hurt peopleor cause people to suffer,
that's the enemies of God.
Why?
Because he loves people.
That's his that's his perfectplan.
Well, then why is the world somessed up?
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We did that.
He didn't do that.
But you know who gets blamed forall that?
God.
Why'd you make the world somessed up?
Why do babies die?
Why did I get cancer?
And everyone's blaming God.
All of those things are a resultof our sin.
He made the world perfect, butwe messed it up.
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Jesus will destroy all of thesebad things so that he can rule
in a way only he can, withperfection and with love and
justice for all.
He will be called the king, orwe call him in the Old
Testament, it's called the Lionof the tribe of Judah.
That's a word for that's howthey describe this king role
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that Jesus is gonna play.
God is gonna fix everything inthe right time, including death.
Now, I know that we have tasteddeath, we have experienced
death, and it seems like that isthe worst thing about this life
is that people die.
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And sometimes you're like, man,that's the most painful thing.
How can that ever get fixed?
I'm telling you that Jesus willfix it.
We have this thing called hope.
And in this hope, he willabsolutely eliminate all the
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pain and all the consequences,even of death.
It says, For he must reign tillhe has put all enemies under his
feet.
The last enemy that is destroyedis death.
That's what it says.
So, in the in New Covenantlanguage, what Jesus has brought
us, this means that Jesus iscurrently reigning as king right
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now.
He's just on his throne up inheaven, and his victory over sin
and death was alreadyaccomplished through his death
and his resurrection.
Now he's up there seated at theright hand of God, and he
reigns, and he's gonna keepreigning until every enemy is
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subdued.
The enemies, again, are allforms of opposition to God's
kingdom of peace and joy.
This is physical thingsincluding and sin and death and
even spiritual forces of evil,all of it, Jesus is gonna
continue to fight againstbecause he's already beaten
them.
He's gonna continue taking thatkingdom.
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So, and think of the imagery ofputting enemies under his feet.
You know what that is?
That that's a picture ofcomplete and total victory
because in back in Rome, when uha Caesar or a general would win
a battle, he would bring, hewould save the enemy general
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alive, you know, would killeveryone else.
And then he'd bring him and he'dmake him go on the ground right
in front of him, and he'd puthis foot right on his neck, and
he'd be like, ah, and they wouldall be like, ah, grazi, grazi.
Is that Italian?
Okay, I don't know Italian, buthe's probably speaking Latin,
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actually.
Anyway, um that's the picture wehave of what Jesus is going to
do with every single thingthat's bad in this world, even
death.
The last enemy which will bestored will be destroyed is
death itself, which is gonnahappen at the final resurrection
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when after Jesus comes back whenall believers are raised from
the dead.
And he's patient.
This is crazy.
I want this to happen now,right?
He waits for every single saintto be born and discover his
grace before ending it all.
Why didn't Jesus do this 2,000years ago?
Well, because of you.
You weren't born yet, and heknew you and he loved you, and
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he's like, we gotta wait untilall my kids are born and then
discover my grace, and then Ican fix everything when the
right time, the right number ofpeople have been saved, it'll
come to an end.
For believers, this was a sourceof great assurance and hope.
So we get to live in thisreality of Christ's reign.
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Like we get it now.
The world is under the reign ofthe devil.
Okay, he still has some powerand authority on this earth, but
we are like little lights ofrebellion against that.
He can't reign anything in ourlives.
We are completely free from thedevil in every single way.
He cannot do anything to usexcept plant thoughts.
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But if you believe the gospeland study the word, you're gonna
be your thoughts are gonna begood, you're gonna be okay.
So we aren't subject to any ofhis control.
We have we are like thebeginning of Jesus taking over
the world.
It's us.
We can have we can rest in theconfidence that Jesus is in
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control, nothing is intimidatinghim, nothing is outside of his
purposes, his purposes are gonnabe fulfilled in our life.
Does that mean I'm gonna have todie?
Well, yeah, you're physicallygonna die at some point, but
you're never gonna taste death.
You will just dissolve and beremade new in a moment, and you
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will be step into your real truelife, like a seed becoming the
plant that it was supposed tobe.
That's how death is for us.
Yes, death is an enemy forJesus, he's the last enemy.
God didn't cause death.
We did, our sin did, right?
Yeah, he gets blamed for it allthe time, and he's gonna take
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care of it one day for sure,forever.
It's gonna be done.
The destruction of death waspictured, foreshadowed, it began
at his own resurrection.
And do you know what happenedthat at that moment when he rose
from the dead?
It says in Matthew 27, this isone of the weirdest verses in
the Bible.
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Look at this.
It says, And many bodies of thesaints, the graves were opened,
and many bodies of the saintswho had fallen asleep were
raised, and coming out of thegraves after his resurrection,
they went into the holy city andappeared to many.
Okay, so zombies.
Except they were alive.
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But can you imagine?
Okay, Jesus gets crucified,everyone's like, What in the
world is going on?
And then Moses is just walkingdown the street, and Elijah and
all the saints, and and peoplewere like, What is going on?
Yeah.
I don't know.
You gotta ask God about thatone.
But it's a picture that hisresurrection was so powerful
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that the saints of old, who werenow allowed to go up into
heaven, they were able to justwalk around the city and say hi
to people.
Unbelievable.
All right, you guys know I loveCharles Spurgeon, best preacher
of the 1800s, if you're rankingthem, which I do.
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Spurgeon said this, Spurgeonquote, Spurgeon quote.
When at the Redeemer'sresurrection, many of the saints
arose and came out of theirgraves into the holy city, then
was the crucified Lordproclaimed to be victorious over
death and the grave.
These were but preliminaryskirmishes and mere
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foreshadowings of the grandvictory by which death is
overthrown.
Now today's really special.
It's a double Spurgeon quoteday.
Get ready.
Spurgeon quote number two.
If death is destroyed, why doChristians die?
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Ooh, you ever think about that?
Okay, if Jesus has alreadybeaten death, why do we even
have to die?
Death since Jesus died is not apenal infliction, that means
penalty or punishment upon thechildren of God as such as He
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has abolished it, as it couldnever be enforced.
So God could never punish you bykilling you.
Why then do saints die?
Why?
Because their bodies must bechanged before they can enter
heaven.
That's why we die.
Saints do not die now, they aredissolved and depart.
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So it's just a transformation.
Our death is come it's never sinthat kills us.
It's just the natural coursethat takes us from seed into
what we are really, which is ournew reality.
And this brings great, great,great peace to us, doesn't it?
Amen.
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All right, it says back in ourtext, for he has put all things
under his feet, but when he saysall things are put under him, it
is evident that the one who putall things under him is
accepted.
So what this means is that Godthe Father and God the Son,
they're both God, and they'recompletely equal in glory, in
power, in godliness.
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They're both God.
It's called the God Head, butGod the Father will always be
the Father, and God the Son willalways be the Father, the Son.
Why are they the Father and Son?
Why are there two differentthings?
And even then the Spirit, andthat's even more confusing.
There's three of them, right?
But there's really just one,right?
But God the Father, God the Sonshows what submission and
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surrender looks like in a lovingresponse to God the Father's
love to the Son.
So there they are two differentthings because it shows two
aspects of love.
Jesus loves to submit to thewill and surrender his will to
his father.
So he's always surrendering tohis father.
And the father is always leadingwith wisdom and love.
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And he always has the heart todo something great.
It's their relationship thatshows humility and love as
Father and Son.
So that's what it's saying here.
Jesus doesn't put God the Fatherunder the kingdom he's making,
he lets the whole kingdom beunder the Father.
And that's that's what thisverse means.
Now then, when all things aremade subject to him, then the
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Son Himself will also be subjectto him.
That's the humility, who put allthings under him, that God may
be all in all.
So what that means is Jesus willcontinue to be the Son for all
of eternity because he lovesserving his Father.
And it shows what God is like.
Why is this important?
It shows the perfect image ofGod.
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You can't understand everanything or really everything
about God without Jesus.
You would think God is just someupstairs dictator, or he's a
Santa Claus, or something thatyou would have a misconception.
But when you have a God theFather that is God and judge and
perfect, and then you have a Godthe Son that is submissive and
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honors his Father, then you seea perfect image of God.
And then you add the Spirit inthere which glorifies the Son,
and it's it gets even moreperfect.
Each one reveals something aboutGod that we wouldn't know
without that part of theTrinity.
And we do call this the Trinityor the Godhead.
And because they reveal all thisabout God, and then we can
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worship God because He's waybigger than you.
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That's what the Trinity means.
God is all in all.
This is a beautiful phrase, allin all.
And it captures this idea thatit's his ultimate supremacy and
fulfillment in everything.
It means God is the source, thesustainer, and the ultimate
purpose for all creation.
It's why we live, it's why theworld is here.
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And in the language of the newcovenant that we've been
learning about of his grace, itit reflects the truth that
through Jesus, God hasreconciled everything to
himself.
And his presence and his powerpermeate every part of our life
now.
So when we say Jesus is ourall-in-all now, it's gonna get a
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little crazy for us because itmeans he is your whole life.
For believers, Jesus is oureverything.
You are complete in him, you arelacking nothing.
Look what it says in Colossianschapter 2, verse 9 and 10.
For in him dwells the fullnessof the Godhead bodily.
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So the fullness of the Trinitywas in Jesus, and you are
complete in him who is the headof all principality and power.
He is our life.
That's what this means.
The spirit of Jesus lives inyou.
It's your spirit now, and it'sguiding and empowering us to
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live out his love and his graceto the world.
You are little bits of light inthe darkness of this world.
You are little bits of hisresurrection victory over death
and sin.
You are that light in thisworld.
And you don't need to strive forany more of God because he can't
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give you any more of himselfthan he already has.
The moment you believed andreceived Jesus and said, Jesus,
you died on the cross for me,you rose again for me, and I
accept it and I believe it, Godgives you his spirit, and that
is all of him.
You you are all okay.
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You don't need more of him.
And but what do we do?
We always stress and strive.
Oh, I gotta do more for God, Igotta work harder, I gotta do
more, I gotta be something else.
And God's like, stop.
You're okay.
You're completely my child fromthe moment you believed.
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Just like your baby wascompletely your baby, even then
when they were just born, theycouldn't do anything except poop
and cry.
They couldn't do anything ofvalue.
God didn't make you his childbecause of your value.
He loves you and that makes youvaluable.
And then he'll work out yourlife, he'll create lots of good
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works in your life, but that'snot how it works.
It works because he loves youand by his grace he produces
that in you.
Our role as his kids right nowis to rest in this truth and
allow his life to be expressedin us supernaturally.
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And I'm gonna teach you how todo that.
He needs to be your all in all.
He needs to be your all in all.
In Matthew chapter six, Jesusgives us like a kind of a crazy
um message.
He says this in Matthew 6, 22.
He says, The lamp of the body isthe eye.
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If therefore your eye is good,your whole body will be full of
light.
But if your eye is bad, thenyour whole body will be full of
darkness.
If therefore that um that lightthat is in you is darkness, how
great is that darkness?
Now when I I didn't understandthis for like 40 years, and I'm
43, so 44.
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Sorry, thank you.
I'm 44.
I had no idea what this wastalking about.
A good eye and a bad eye.
I'm like, what like if I havebad eyes, Jesus doesn't love me?
What is going on here?
It has nothing to do with yourphysical eyeball.
Nothing to do with that.
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See, the word good is actuallyin Greek is the word single.
A single eye.
And the word evil is it means adouble eye or having double
vision, looking, focusing on twoseparate things.
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Having a good eye, having asingle eye means my eye is
focused on Jesus, that Jesus ismy all in all.
He is the source of everythingin my life.
He can send blessings, and theyare good, man.
We love his blessings, don't we?
But he can also take the badthings that come into my life,
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the trials and the difficultiesand the hurt and the pain, and
he can work those out for mygood also.
He can use it to discipline meas his child.
He can just work it out to bringa double blessing into my life.
He always knows what he's doing.
How can I trust him to do this?
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So I want to do a littleillustration for you to
illustrate this I thing.
So you you know a pendulum,right?
If you have a pendulum, it'sit's attached up high and it
swings from one side to theother.
So this is like our life.
We have this side, oh, this isgood.
I love that this is good, andthen it swings over here.
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Oh, that's bad.
Something bad happened in mylife.
And if I'm just looking at them,I'm going back and forth.
Oh, that's good, oh, that's bad,oh, that's good.
I have whiplash.
That's not the way to live life,okay?
You don't have to figure outwhat's good and bad in your
life.
You don't.
That's not your job.
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Where is your eye supposed tobe?
If Jesus is your all in all, youcan have a single eye.
You can just look at him.
And when something apparentlygood happens, you can be like
that leads straight to him.
What a blessing he's given me.
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And what are you gonna do?
You're gonna praise him andyou're gonna be like, Thank you,
God, thank you for thisblessing.
But then the pendulum swingsover here, and you're like, oh,
this is something bad, this isdeath, or this is pain, or this
is suffering.
But if you can track it up towhere God it's it's coming from
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Jesus, and if you can believe itand have your eyes on him and
believe him when he says, I amin control of all things and
even the difficult things inyour life, I am bringing it into
your life.
To bring you a blessing, I willturn this around for your good.
Can you believe that?
If your eyes are on Jesus, youcan.
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And he says, your whole bodywill be filled with light.
What does that mean?
It means you will be able tonavigate this world in such a
better way than this personwho's like, is it good?
Is it bad?
Is it good?
Is it bad?
It says, if you're constantlylooking down here, it's all
darkness.
You're going to be filled withthis great darkness, not
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knowing, am I good?
Am I accepted by God?
Is God mad at me?
Is God punishing me and givingme these bad things because he's
mad at me?
No, God is not mad at you, butyou're not going to see that or
know that if your eyes aren't onJesus.
Because if your eyes aren't onJesus, who are they on?
You.
And you're like, well, I did thebad thing, and now bad things
are happening in my life, so Godmust be mad at me.
And none of that is the truth.
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God can discipline you, but it'salways for your good.
See, everything in your lifewill be God's blessings to you
in Christ.
It will work out for your goodin Christ.
Those are the promises we have,the promises we can stand on.
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Well, how can I believe that?
How can I trust him?
Test his promises then.
Test his promises.
Put him to the test.
Search his word.
Or if you don't want to, come tochurch and I'll tell you his
promises.
I will.
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Then when you hear a promise,determine to depend on them one
by one.
Choose a promise each day to I'mgonna depend on this promise.
I'm gonna see if God is gonnakeep his word.
I'm gonna test him.
Because if you're doing that,your eye is single on him.
You'll have the single eye, thegood eye.
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And his promises will be thelight to your world.
But what do we do?
We generally ignore him.
Or we just give him a tokenmoment in our life in the
morning or before a meal.
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This will never work becausehe's not all in some.
That's not Jesus' title.
He's not all in part of ourlife.
We cannot live with an eye onhim and an eye on something
else.
Have you ever tried to becross-eyed?
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It does not work.
But he gives me two eyes.
Can't I look at two differentthings?
No, he is our life.
He is all of our life.
We have no life outside of him.
And he will wait till we realizethis or believe it or fully
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surrender to it before we everreally see his power and his
life start to manifest in ourlives.
Oh, I want my life to look likeJesus.
He does too.
He wants you to look like him.
But you have to have a singleeye be all, he has to be your
all-in-all.
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Romans chapter 12, he says, Ibeg you, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that you presentyour bodies a living sacrifice,
holy and acceptable to God,which is your reasonable
service.
And do not be conformed to thisworld, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that youmay be able to prove what is the
good and acceptable and perfectwill of God.
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This is how to live with thesingle eye.
This is how to focus on Jesusalone.
This is how to let Jesus be yourall-in-all in this life, and so
be a part of his kingdom that'ssoon going to take over this
planet.
What did he say?
Know that you are holy.
Believe it.
You are holy.
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It said, You are holy.
How did I get holy?
I didn't do anything exactly.
Jesus gave it to you as a giftof his grace.
Then give your holy life back toJesus daily to serve him in this
life that you live.
Don't let the world tell you howyou should live or what you
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should be or what you should do.
He says that's dumb.
The world has nothing to do withyou anymore.
Your life is all in all Jesus.
There is no world telling mewhat I need anymore.
But look to the Word of Godalone.
What's Jesus' name?
What's his title?
The Word of God.
Look to him for every singlepart of your life.
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He truly is sufficient for everyneed that we have.
Everything.
You want to get married someday?
Jesus wants that for you too.
You want to whatever your thingis.
Read through the word of God,pray through it, and that is how
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your mind will catch up to whatGod has already accomplished in
your spirit.
The gospel is already true, butour brains don't understand all
that Jesus has given us by hisgrace.
But reading the word and prayingthrough it and studying the word
is how our brains catch up.
And this is God's perfect willfor your life and for my life.
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And everyone on this island andevery human being on this world.
Man, I wish I knew God's perfectwill for my life.
Well, I have it here.
I mean, I'd rather do somethingelse except read the Bible and
pray and believe the promises ofGod, though.
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Live like a child of God whoknows that you are loved by God,
redeemed by God, and passionateabout serving God in love.
Why this matters, all right?
So we've done this Bible studytoday on the all-in-all.
Why does it matter to everyonesitting in here, to the millions
of people watching online?
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One can hope, right?
Because it seems that everywherewe look, there is something
broken or messed up.
And there's someone on everycorner offering their solution,
their drink, their drug, theirplan, their lifestyle, and they
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promise you they can fix it.
But if we simply look to Jesus,he is all in all.
He swallows up the brokennessand the sin, and we're left with
nothing but God and us unitedforever, in perfect union, like
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a marriage that's just filledwith love.
And we're able to receive love,and then we're able to give love
back to him in perfectrelationship, just as the Father
loves the Son, and the Son lovesthe Father.
Now we've been invited to play arole in that relationship also.
We've been invited in.
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We become the loving bride ofChrist, redeemed from our sin by
his blood, and called to servethe same Father He serves with
our lives.
So we love and we serve all wecan reach out to in this moment
we call our life.
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Will you fully surrender toJesus today?
Fully surrender.
What are you holding back?
If you want to know what you'reholding back, ask God to show
you if you dare.
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Because He loves you so much,He'll show you.
It's that thing that you'reafraid of losing.
It's that thing that you'reafraid of confessing.
It's that thing that you'reafraid.
If you don't have it, you won'tbe able to live your life.
And Jesus says, That's not yourlife.
I'm your life.
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And I'm gonna fight in your lifeuntil you give me that thing.
Because it's like holding on toa poison that is not bringing
you life, it's bringing youdeath.
And Jesus says, Give it all tome.
So which is it gonna be?
Jesus says, You're all in all,or he's nothing.
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Which will it be?
Why is this so extreme?
Why are you being so extreme?
Why don't you ask a husband ifthey want their bride to be
faithful 100% to him or 90% tohim?
Well, 10% of the time you go doyour thing.
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We're not Will Smith here.
Anyway, in relationships,faithfulness matters.
And we give our all to Jesus forhim to be our all in all because
he has given all of himself tous.
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Amen.
Amen.
Would you guys all stand withus?
Sometimes as we're as we'renavigating this relationship
with Jesus, it it can be umscary, and you might need
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someone to walk with you, holdyour hand as you come back to
him.
I want to be that for you, or ifyou need anyone else, there's so
many people in this room thatwill pray with you and that will
walk with you through growing inyour relationship with God.
Don't be afraid, don't be shy.
We are all in the exact sameboat.
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We are beloved children of God,and nobody's gonna look down on
you or me because we've beenstruggling with something, or
we've been dealing with pain, orwe've been dealing with
anything.
We're there for you, we loveyou.
You can send me an email just topray for you, or I can meet with
you to help you through anythingthat you're going through.
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All right?
Take us away.
Amen.
Today's message is called All InAll.
All in All.
They sing the song?
Now we're going to learn aboutit.
Okay.
We're in First Corinthianschapter 15.
We're going to be looking atverses 24 through 28.
First Corinthians.
And we're journeying throughFirst Corinthians every week.
We're going to we're going tobe, it only has 16 chapters, so
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we're going to be finishing upfairly soon.
Then we'll be jumping to an OldTestament book and going through
that one.
But I'm not going to tell youwhich one yet.
You have to wait and see.
Alright?
Okay.
Why is there pain in this world?
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Why is there suffering thatcan't be explained?
Why is there death?
Sickness?
Hatred.
Rejection.
Storms of nature and storms inthe culture.
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It seems like everywhere welook, there's something broken
or messed up.
And there's someone on everycorner offering their solution,
their drink, their drug, theirplan, their lifestyle.
And they say, What I got isgonna fix it.
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And it's all empty, it's allfalse, it's all a lie, it's all
gonna crash and burn.
And we see those flame outs allover the place.
We see them all the time.
Oh, this person couldn't keep ittogether.
That person finally gave up.
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The sadness finally got to thatone.
And each precious person thatfalls becomes yet another log on
the dumpster fire we call life.
And we still have to crawl ourway through every day.
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You're like, boy, this sermon isdown in the dumps.
But if you've ever cried outwhy, or even how long, or even
is there any real hope at all?
Then I would like to put on anew record and play a new song
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for you.
And it's it's called all in all.
It's God's answer and hissolution for all of it.
It's the only solution thattruly brings new life to what
was dead, hurting, broken, andsick.
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Jesus goes into the mud and theblood of death.
He goes and swimming in thebeer, and he swallows it all up
so that he can change it intolife.
That's what he accomplishes withthe resurrection from the dead.
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And that's what we're gonnalearn about today.
So, to set our context, in verse20 it said that, but now Christ
is risen from the dead.
So we're talking about theresurrection.
So Jesus makes us alive with himwhen he rises from the dead.
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And then at some point, Jesus isgonna come back from heaven.
Did you know that?
He's gonna come back, he's gonnabe the king of the world, he's
gonna, there's gonna be no onestanding up against him.
He is going to come backphysically, really, he's gonna
come back.
We call that the second coming.
Yeah, hallelujah.
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He'll be the best president,except he's not gonna be
president, he's gonna be farbeyond, right?
King, glorious king, right?
Well, that's that sets ourcontext of what we've been
talking about, the secondcoming, which is the kind of the
culmination of his resurrection.
And it says this, then comes theend.
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Ooh, that's a cool phrase.
Then comes the end, when hedelivers the kingdom to God the
Father, when he puts an end toall rule and all authority and
power, for he must reign till heputs all enemies under his feet.
The last enemy that will bedestroyed is death, for he has
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put all things under his feet,quoting.
But when he says, all things areput under him, it is evident
that he who put all things underhim is accepted.
Now, when all things are madesubject to him, then the Son
Himself will also be madesubject to him who put all
things under him, that God maybe all in all.
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What was that about?
Let's break it down.
How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
That's also how you study theBible.
Okay?
When you read a section andyou're like, what was that
about?
Just start breaking it down andtaking it, maybe not verse, but
maybe even phrase by phrase, andyou'll see that the Holy Spirit
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will teach you how to understandthe Bible.
So let's do that.
Then comes the end when hedelivers the kingdom to God the
Father.
This means the this is theculmination of God's perfect
plan.
Uh this is the end that Jesuswill deliver the kingdom to his
father.
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I love a good ending to a movie.
I love movies.
But it has to have a goodending.
You know, one where there's aresolution, right?
Where there's the ending.
And I get I get super fired upif there's no resolution or if I
don't understand the plot.
My wife can get super fired up.
Did you guys ever watch Tenet?
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This caused so many arguments inour house.
What is even the plot of thatmovie?
We have no idea.
Okay.
But if it doesn't have a goodending, I can take crazy plot as
long as it has like a goodending.
But if it doesn't have a goodending, man, I'm out.
Unless, unless it's acliffhanger.
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Who's down with a cliffhanger?
Yeah.
I like cliffhangers.
As long as I know they're gonnamake a second movie or a second
season.
And yes, I'm talking about you,Surface, from 2006.
Okay, so there was a show, andmy wife and I got super obsessed
with it, and we binged theentire first season in one
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night.
We stayed up all night till likefive, six in the morning.
It was it was one of the firstthings we did when we were
married, and we were so excitedfor the show, and we're just
like, oh, this it's like thiskid finds an egg and it turns
into be a like messy dinosaur inhis backyard, and oh, it's a
great show, and we're just likeall into it.
We're so excited, and then we'relike looking online when does
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season two come out?
Cancelled.
You have no idea thedisappointment, and we talk
about it all the time.
What's the greatestdisappointment we've ever
surface 2006?
Oh man.
Well, Jesus kind of gives us acliffhanger, doesn't he?
He he disappears and he says,I'll be back, like Arnold.
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And we're still waiting, right?
He rises from the dead, hechills for 40 days with all his
disciples.
We studied that last week.
Then boom, the movie's over,sequel's coming, he says.
But but what?
Right?
The sequel, the one where Jesusreturns as king and fixes
everything according to the willof God.
That sequel is called theKingdom.
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The kingdom, where men and Godare reunited with each other.
Man is the counterpart of God,finally filled with his spirit.
We're the bride of Christ, andall the sin that caused our
death and all the separationbetween us and God, it's removed
and destroyed forever.
Man, that's gonna be a goodmovie.
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Well, in Ephesians chapter 1,verse 10, we have another verse
that correlates with this one,and it says, That in the
dispensation of the fullness oftimes he might gather together
in one all things in Christ,both which are in heaven and are
on earth in him.
So Paul wrote of this gatheringtogether, this squishing things,
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you could call it.
All things in Christ.
It's summing up things.
He's saying we add up the thingsover here and we add up the
things and we add them alltogether, and it's gonna sum up,
and it's just gonna be Jesus.
Well, in 1 Corinthians, we lookforward to right here, we're
studying, we're look lookingforward when all things are
resolved in Christ, and hepresents it as a gift to God the
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Father, giving glory to God whoauthored this movie, this
eternal plan.
It's all going to be resolved orfixed or redeemed, you could
say.
Here's a quote (10:00):
In raising Christ from the dead, God has
set in motion a chain of eventsthat must culminate in the final
destruction of death, and thusof God's being once again, as in
eternity past, all in all.
When he puts an then our nextverse says, or our next little
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phrase, when he puts an end toall rule and all authority and
all power.
What does that mean?
Anything that rebels againstGod.
So there's things right now inthis world that are rebelling
against God, mainly people, butalso even nature.
You know, we have storms andtornadoes and all this stuff.
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All everything that rebelsagainst his perfect, peaceful
plan is going to be destroyed.
Anything that's ruined, hisperfect creation, anything
that's been used to hurt peopleor cause people to suffer,
that's the enemies of God.
Why?
Because he loves people.
That's his that's his perfectplan.
Well, then why is the world somessed up?
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We did that.
He didn't do that.
But you know who gets blamed forall that?
God.
Why'd you make the world somessed up?
Why do babies die?
Why did I get cancer?
And everyone's blaming God.
All of those things are a resultof our sin.
He made the world perfect, butwe messed it up.
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Jesus will destroy all of thesebad things so that he can rule
in a way only he can, withperfection and with love and
justice for all.
He will be called the king, orwe call him in the Old
Testament, it's called the Lionof the tribe of Judah.
That's a word for that's howthey describe this king role
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that Jesus is gonna play.
God is gonna fix everything inthe right time, including death.
Now, I know that we have tasteddeath, we have experienced
death, and it seems like that isthe worst thing about this life
is that people die.
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And sometimes you're like, man,that's the most painful thing.
How can that ever get fixed?
I'm telling you that Jesus willfix it.
We have this thing called hope.
And in this hope, he willabsolutely eliminate all the
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pain and all the consequences,even of death.
It says, For he must reign tillhe has put all enemies under his
feet.
The last enemy that is destroyedis death.
That's what it says.
So, in the in New Covenantlanguage, what Jesus has brought
us, this means that Jesus iscurrently reigning as king right
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now.
He's just on his throne up inheaven, and his victory over sin
and death was alreadyaccomplished through his death
and his resurrection.
Now he's up there seated at theright hand of God, and he
reigns, and he's gonna keepreigning until every enemy is
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subdued.
The enemies, again, are allforms of opposition to God's
kingdom of peace and joy.
This is physical thingsincluding and sin and death and
even spiritual forces of evil,all of it, Jesus is gonna
continue to fight againstbecause he's already beaten
them.
He's gonna continue taking thatkingdom.
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So, and think of the imagery ofputting enemies under his feet.
You know what that is?
That that's a picture ofcomplete and total victory
because in back in Rome, when uha Caesar or a general would win
a battle, he would bring, hewould save the enemy general
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alive, you know, would killeveryone else.
And then he'd bring him and he'dmake him go on the ground right
in front of him, and he'd puthis foot right on his neck, and
he'd be like, ah, and they wouldall be like, ah, grazi, grazi.
Is that Italian?
Okay, I don't know Italian, buthe's probably speaking Latin,
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actually.
Anyway, um that's the picture wehave of what Jesus is going to
do with every single thingthat's bad in this world, even
death.
The last enemy which will bestored will be destroyed is
death itself, which is gonnahappen at the final resurrection
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when after Jesus comes back whenall believers are raised from
the dead.
And he's patient.
This is crazy.
I want this to happen now,right?
He waits for every single saintto be born and discover his
grace before ending it all.
Why didn't Jesus do this 2,000years ago?
Well, because of you.
You weren't born yet, and heknew you and he loved you, and
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he's like, we gotta wait untilall my kids are born and then
discover my grace, and then Ican fix everything when the
right time, the right number ofpeople have been saved, it'll
come to an end.
For believers, this was a sourceof great assurance and hope.
So we get to live in thisreality of Christ's reign.
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Like we get it now.
The world is under the reign ofthe devil.
Okay, he still has some powerand authority on this earth, but
we are like little lights ofrebellion against that.
He can't reign anything in ourlives.
We are completely free from thedevil in every single way.
He cannot do anything to usexcept plant thoughts.
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But if you believe the gospeland study the word, you're gonna
be your thoughts are gonna begood, you're gonna be okay.
So we aren't subject to any ofhis control.
We have we are like thebeginning of Jesus taking over
the world.
It's us.
We can have we can rest in theconfidence that Jesus is in
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control, nothing is intimidatinghim, nothing is outside of his
purposes, his purposes are gonnabe fulfilled in our life.
Does that mean I'm gonna have todie?
Well, yeah, you're physicallygonna die at some point, but
you're never gonna taste death.
You will just dissolve and beremade new in a moment, and you
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will be step into your real truelife, like a seed becoming the
plant that it was supposed tobe.
That's how death is for us.
Yes, death is an enemy forJesus, he's the last enemy.
God didn't cause death.
We did, our sin did, right?
Yeah, he gets blamed for it allthe time, and he's gonna take
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care of it one day for sure,forever.
It's gonna be done.
The destruction of death waspictured, foreshadowed, it began
at his own resurrection.
And do you know what happenedthat at that moment when he rose
from the dead?
It says in Matthew 27, this isone of the weirdest verses in
the Bible.
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Look at this.
It says, And many bodies of thesaints, the graves were opened,
and many bodies of the saintswho had fallen asleep were
raised, and coming out of thegraves after his resurrection,
they went into the holy city andappeared to many.
Okay, so zombies.
Except they were alive.
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But can you imagine?
Okay, Jesus gets crucified,everyone's like, What in the
world is going on?
And then Moses is just walkingdown the street, and Elijah and
all the saints, and and peoplewere like, What is going on?
Yeah.
I don't know.
You gotta ask God about thatone.
But it's a picture that hisresurrection was so powerful
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that the saints of old, who werenow allowed to go up into
heaven, they were able to justwalk around the city and say hi
to people.
Unbelievable.
All right, you guys know I loveCharles Spurgeon, best preacher
of the 1800s, if you're rankingthem, which I do.
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Spurgeon said this, Spurgeonquote, Spurgeon quote.
When at the Redeemer'sresurrection, many of the saints
arose and came out of theirgraves into the holy city, then
was the crucified Lordproclaimed to be victorious over
death and the grave.
These were but preliminaryskirmishes and mere
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foreshadowings of the grandvictory by which death is
overthrown.
Now today's really special.
It's a double Spurgeon quoteday.
Get ready.
Spurgeon quote number two.
If death is destroyed, why doChristians die?
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Ooh, you ever think about that?
Okay, if Jesus has alreadybeaten death, why do we even
have to die?
Death since Jesus died is not apenal infliction, that means
penalty or punishment upon thechildren of God as such as He
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has abolished it, as it couldnever be enforced.
So God could never punish you bykilling you.
Why then do saints die?
Why?
Because their bodies must bechanged before they can enter
heaven.
That's why we die.
Saints do not die now, they aredissolved and depart.
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So it's just a transformation.
Our death is come it's never sinthat kills us.
It's just the natural coursethat takes us from seed into
what we are really, which is ournew reality.
And this brings great, great,great peace to us, doesn't it?
Amen.
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All right, it says back in ourtext, for he has put all things
under his feet, but when he saysall things are put under him, it
is evident that the one who putall things under him is
accepted.
So what this means is that Godthe Father and God the Son,
they're both God, and they'recompletely equal in glory, in
power, in godliness.
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They're both God.
It's called the God Head, butGod the Father will always be
the Father, and God the Son willalways be the Father, the Son.
Why are they the Father and Son?
Why are there two differentthings?
And even then the Spirit, andthat's even more confusing.
There's three of them, right?
But there's really just one,right?
But God the Father, God the Sonshows what submission and
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surrender looks like in a lovingresponse to God the Father's
love to the Son.
So there they are two differentthings because it shows two
aspects of love.
Jesus loves to submit to thewill and surrender his will to
his father.
So he's always surrendering tohis father.
And the father is always leadingwith wisdom and love.
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And he always has the heart todo something great.
It's their relationship thatshows humility and love as
Father and Son.
So that's what it's saying here.
Jesus doesn't put God the Fatherunder the kingdom he's making,
he lets the whole kingdom beunder the Father.
And that's that's what thisverse means.
Now then, when all things aremade subject to him, then the
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Son Himself will also be subjectto him.
That's the humility, who put allthings under him, that God may
be all in all.
So what that means is Jesus willcontinue to be the Son for all
of eternity because he lovesserving his Father.
And it shows what God is like.
Why is this important?
It shows the perfect image ofGod.
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You can't understand everanything or really everything
about God without Jesus.
You would think God is just someupstairs dictator, or he's a
Santa Claus, or something thatyou would have a misconception.
But when you have a God theFather that is God and judge and
perfect, and then you have a Godthe Son that is submissive and
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honors his Father, then you seea perfect image of God.
And then you add the Spirit inthere which glorifies the Son,
and it's it gets even moreperfect.
Each one reveals something aboutGod that we wouldn't know
without that part of theTrinity.
And we do call this the Trinityor the Godhead.
And because they reveal all thisabout God, and then we can
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worship God because He's waybigger than you.
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That's what the Trinity means.
God is all in all.
This is a beautiful phrase, allin all.
And it captures this idea thatit's his ultimate supremacy and
fulfillment in everything.
It means God is the source, thesustainer, and the ultimate
purpose for all creation.
It's why we live, it's why theworld is here.
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And in the language of the newcovenant that we've been
learning about of his grace, itit reflects the truth that
through Jesus, God hasreconciled everything to
himself.
And his presence and his powerpermeate every part of our life
now.
So when we say Jesus is ourall-in-all now, it's gonna get a
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little crazy for us because itmeans he is your whole life.
For believers, Jesus is oureverything.
You are complete in him, you arelacking nothing.
Look what it says in Colossianschapter 2, verse 9 and 10.
For in him dwells the fullnessof the Godhead bodily.
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So the fullness of the Trinitywas in Jesus, and you are
complete in him who is the headof all principality and power.
He is our life.
That's what this means.
The spirit of Jesus lives inyou.
It's your spirit now, and it'sguiding and empowering us to
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live out his love and his graceto the world.
You are little bits of light inthe darkness of this world.
You are little bits of hisresurrection victory over death
and sin.
You are that light in thisworld.
And you don't need to strive forany more of God because he can't
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give you any more of himselfthan he already has.
The moment you believed andreceived Jesus and said, Jesus,
you died on the cross for me,you rose again for me, and I
accept it and I believe it, Godgives you his spirit, and that
is all of him.
You you are all okay.
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You don't need more of him.
And but what do we do?
We always stress and strive.
Oh, I gotta do more for God, Igotta work harder, I gotta do
more, I gotta be something else.
And God's like, stop.
You're okay.
You're completely my child fromthe moment you believed.
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Just like your baby wascompletely your baby, even then
when they were just born, theycouldn't do anything except poop
and cry.
They couldn't do anything ofvalue.
God didn't make you his childbecause of your value.
He loves you and that makes youvaluable.
And then he'll work out yourlife, he'll create lots of good
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works in your life, but that'snot how it works.
It works because he loves youand by his grace he produces
that in you.
Our role as his kids right nowis to rest in this truth and
allow his life to be expressedin us supernaturally.
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And I'm gonna teach you how todo that.
He needs to be your all in all.
He needs to be your all in all.
In Matthew chapter six, Jesusgives us like a kind of a crazy
um message.
He says this in Matthew 6, 22.
He says, The lamp of the body isthe eye.
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If therefore your eye is good,your whole body will be full of
light.
But if your eye is bad, thenyour whole body will be full of
darkness.
If therefore that um that lightthat is in you is darkness, how
great is that darkness?
Now when I I didn't understandthis for like 40 years, and I'm
43, so 44.
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Sorry, thank you.
I'm 44.
I had no idea what this wastalking about.
A good eye and a bad eye.
I'm like, what like if I havebad eyes, Jesus doesn't love me?
What is going on here?
It has nothing to do with yourphysical eyeball.
Nothing to do with that.
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See, the word good is actuallyin Greek is the word single.
A single eye.
And the word evil is it means adouble eye or having double
vision, looking, focusing on twoseparate things.
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Having a good eye, having asingle eye means my eye is
focused on Jesus, that Jesus ismy all in all.
He is the source of everythingin my life.
He can send blessings, and theyare good, man.
We love his blessings, don't we?
But he can also take the badthings that come into my life,
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the trials and the difficultiesand the hurt and the pain, and
he can work those out for mygood also.
He can use it to discipline meas his child.
He can just work it out to bringa double blessing into my life.
He always knows what he's doing.
How can I trust him to do this?
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So I want to do a littleillustration for you to
illustrate this I thing.
So you you know a pendulum,right?
If you have a pendulum, it'sit's attached up high and it
swings from one side to theother.
So this is like our life.
We have this side, oh, this isgood.
I love that this is good, andthen it swings over here.
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Oh, that's bad.
Something bad happened in mylife.
And if I'm just looking at them,I'm going back and forth.
Oh, that's good, oh, that's bad,oh, that's good.
I have whiplash.
That's not the way to live life,okay?
You don't have to figure outwhat's good and bad in your
life.
You don't.
That's not your job.
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Where is your eye supposed tobe?
If Jesus is your all in all, youcan have a single eye.
You can just look at him.
And when something apparentlygood happens, you can be like
that leads straight to him.
What a blessing he's given me.
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And what are you gonna do?
You're gonna praise him andyou're gonna be like, Thank you,
God, thank you for thisblessing.
But then the pendulum swingsover here, and you're like, oh,
this is something bad, this isdeath, or this is pain, or this
is suffering.
But if you can track it up towhere God it's it's coming from
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Jesus, and if you can believe itand have your eyes on him and
believe him when he says, I amin control of all things and
even the difficult things inyour life, I am bringing it into
your life.
To bring you a blessing, I willturn this around for your good.
Can you believe that?
If your eyes are on Jesus, youcan.
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And he says, your whole bodywill be filled with light.
What does that mean?
It means you will be able tonavigate this world in such a
better way than this personwho's like, is it good?
Is it bad?
Is it good?
Is it bad?
It says, if you're constantlylooking down here, it's all
darkness.
You're going to be filled withthis great darkness, not
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knowing, am I good?
Am I accepted by God?
Is God mad at me?
Is God punishing me and givingme these bad things because he's
mad at me?
No, God is not mad at you, butyou're not going to see that or
know that if your eyes aren't onJesus.
Because if your eyes aren't onJesus, who are they on?
You.
And you're like, well, I did thebad thing, and now bad things
are happening in my life, so Godmust be mad at me.
And none of that is the truth.
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God can discipline you, but it'salways for your good.
See, everything in your lifewill be God's blessings to you
in Christ.
It will work out for your goodin Christ.
Those are the promises we have,the promises we can stand on.
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Well, how can I believe that?
How can I trust him?
Test his promises then.
Test his promises.
Put him to the test.
Search his word.
Or if you don't want to, come tochurch and I'll tell you his
promises.
I will.
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Then when you hear a promise,determine to depend on them one
by one.
Choose a promise each day to I'mgonna depend on this promise.
I'm gonna see if God is gonnakeep his word.
I'm gonna test him.
Because if you're doing that,your eye is single on him.
You'll have the single eye, thegood eye.
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And his promises will be thelight to your world.
But what do we do?
We generally ignore him.
Or we just give him a tokenmoment in our life in the
morning or before a meal.
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This will never work becausehe's not all in some.
That's not Jesus' title.
He's not all in part of ourlife.
We cannot live with an eye onhim and an eye on something
else.
Have you ever tried to becross-eyed?
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It does not work.
But he gives me two eyes.
Can't I look at two differentthings?
No, he is our life.
He is all of our life.
We have no life outside of him.
And he will wait till we realizethis or believe it or fully
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surrender to it before we everreally see his power and his
life start to manifest in ourlives.
Oh, I want my life to look likeJesus.
He does too.
He wants you to look like him.
But you have to have a singleeye be all, he has to be your
all-in-all.
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Romans chapter 12, he says, Ibeg you, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that you presentyour bodies a living sacrifice,
holy and acceptable to God,which is your reasonable
service.
And do not be conformed to thisworld, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that youmay be able to prove what is the
good and acceptable and perfectwill of God.
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This is how to live with thesingle eye.
This is how to focus on Jesusalone.
This is how to let Jesus be yourall-in-all in this life, and so
be a part of his kingdom that'ssoon going to take over this
planet.
What did he say?
Know that you are holy.
Believe it.
You are holy.
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It said, You are holy.
How did I get holy?
I didn't do anything exactly.
Jesus gave it to you as a giftof his grace.
Then give your holy life back toJesus daily to serve him in this
life that you live.
Don't let the world tell you howyou should live or what you
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should be or what you should do.
He says that's dumb.
The world has nothing to do withyou anymore.
Your life is all in all Jesus.
There is no world telling mewhat I need anymore.
But look to the Word of Godalone.
What's Jesus' name?
What's his title?
The Word of God.
Look to him for every singlepart of your life.
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He truly is sufficient for everyneed that we have.
Everything.
You want to get married someday?
Jesus wants that for you too.
You want to whatever your thingis.
Read through the word of God,pray through it, and that is how
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your mind will catch up to whatGod has already accomplished in
your spirit.
The gospel is already true, butour brains don't understand all
that Jesus has given us by hisgrace.
But reading the word and prayingthrough it and studying the word
is how our brains catch up.
And this is God's perfect willfor your life and for my life.
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And everyone on this island andevery human being on this world.
Man, I wish I knew God's perfectwill for my life.
Well, I have it here.
I mean, I'd rather do somethingelse except read the Bible and
pray and believe the promises ofGod, though.
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Live like a child of God whoknows that you are loved by God,
redeemed by God, and passionateabout serving God in love.
Why this matters, all right?
So we've done this Bible studytoday on the all-in-all.
Why does it matter to everyonesitting in here, to the millions
of people watching online?
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One can hope, right?
Because it seems that everywherewe look, there is something
broken or messed up.
And there's someone on everycorner offering their solution,
their drink, their drug, theirplan, their lifestyle, and they
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promise you they can fix it.
But if we simply look to Jesus,he is all in all.
He swallows up the brokennessand the sin, and we're left with
nothing but God and us unitedforever, in perfect union, like
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a marriage that's just filledwith love.
And we're able to receive love,and then we're able to give love
back to him in perfectrelationship, just as the Father
loves the Son, and the Son lovesthe Father.
Now we've been invited to play arole in that relationship also.
We've been invited in.
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We become the loving bride ofChrist, redeemed from our sin by
his blood, and called to servethe same Father He serves with
our lives.
So we love and we serve all wecan reach out to in this moment
we call our life.
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Will you fully surrender toJesus today?
Fully surrender.
What are you holding back?
If you want to know what you'reholding back, ask God to show
you if you dare.
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Because He loves you so much,He'll show you.
It's that thing that you'reafraid of losing.
It's that thing that you'reafraid of confessing.
It's that thing that you'reafraid.
If you don't have it, you won'tbe able to live your life.
And Jesus says, That's not yourlife.
I'm your life.
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And I'm gonna fight in your lifeuntil you give me that thing.
Because it's like holding on toa poison that is not bringing
you life, it's bringing youdeath.
And Jesus says, Give it all tome.
So which is it gonna be?
Jesus says, You're all in all,or he's nothing.
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Which will it be?
Why is this so extreme?
Why are you being so extreme?
Why don't you ask a husband ifthey want their bride to be
faithful 100% to him or 90% tohim?
Well, 10% of the time you go doyour thing.
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We're not Will Smith here.
Anyway, in relationships,faithfulness matters.
And we give our all to Jesus forhim to be our all in all because
he has given all of himself tous.
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Amen.
Amen.
Would you guys all stand withus?
Sometimes as we're as we'renavigating this relationship
with Jesus, it it can be umscary, and you might need
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someone to walk with you, holdyour hand as you come back to
him.
I want to be that for you, or ifyou need anyone else, there's so
many people in this room thatwill pray with you and that will
walk with you through growing inyour relationship with God.
Don't be afraid, don't be shy.
We are all in the exact sameboat.
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We are beloved children of God,and nobody's gonna look down on
you or me because we've beenstruggling with something, or
we've been dealing with pain, orwe've been dealing with
anything.
We're there for you, we loveyou.
You can send me an email just topray for you, or I can meet with
you to help you through anythingthat you're going through.
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All right?
Take us away.
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