{"id":4781,"date":"2007-06-05T08:27:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T08:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2017-04-13T13:51:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T13:51:57","slug":"another-coffee-break-15-steps-lii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/another-coffee-break-15-steps-lii\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: 15 STEPS LII"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-center in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"517\" height=\"281\" title=\"image002-2\" src=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image002-2.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-3610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image002-2-200x109.jpg 200w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image002-2-400x217.jpg 400w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image002-2.jpg 517w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1105px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-reading-box-container reading-box-container-1\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#171717;--awb-margin-top:5px;--awb-margin-bottom:10px;\"><div class=\"reading-box\" style=\"background-color:#f6f6f6;border-width:0px;border-color:#f6f6f6;border-top-width:3px;border-top-color:var(--primary_color);border-style:solid;\"><div class=\"fusion-reading-box-flex\"><h2>ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: 15 STEPS LII<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=WordSection1>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;background:#FCFDFD'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\ncolor:#262C2C;background:#FCFDFD'>Jun 5, '07 8:27 PM<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;background:#FCFDFD'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\ncolor:#262C2C;background:#FCFDFD'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal;background:#FCFDFD'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#460000'>Greetings and Solutions!<\/span><\/b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>OK, that was\nsupposed to be Salutations, but &quot;Solutions&quot; works, doesn't it?&nbsp;\nYou're looking for some solutions today, right?<\/span><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Sorry 'bout\nFriday's overly-long Coffee Break.&nbsp; I didn't realize just how long it was\nuntil after it got posted.&nbsp; Guess I made up for the fact that we missed\nWednesday.&nbsp; Friday's post was roughly equivalent to two Coffee Breaks.&nbsp;\nIf I'm not mistaken, it was the longest Coffee Break I've ever done in the past\n2 1\/2 years.&nbsp; We'll try to keep today's discussion to a much more\nmoderated length.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>I'm running late\nagain, too.&nbsp; Got up this morning to find that the back side of our church\nbuilding had been sprayed with gang graffiti again.&nbsp; That meant\npressure-washing the building, letting it dry off (not hard to do in 89-degree\ntemperatures), and then spray-painting it.&nbsp; Probabilities are that this\nwon't get posted on Monday.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\n\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Coffee's on, folks!&nbsp;\nThe office smells absolutely phenomenal!&nbsp; Love that aroma of freshly ground\ncoffee beans being brewed.&nbsp; YESSSSSSSS!!!<\/span><span style='font-size:\n10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Well, believe it or\nnot, here we are at the 52nd chapter\/episode\/discussion -- whatever you call it\n-- in the 15 Steps outlined in Psalm 23.&nbsp; Who'd of <span class=SpellE>thunk<\/span>\nit?&nbsp; Today, we pick up with the final step in this maturing process -- and\nmaybe it's something of a misnomer to call this a &quot;step.&quot;<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Nevertheless,<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>&quot;I will dwell\nin the House of the Lord forever&quot;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style='font-size:\n13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>&nbsp;<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>-- apart from being\nthe culmination of all that's been happening in our lives as we grow up in God\n-- IS a place of realization in our beings that what the apostle Paul wrote in\nhis epistle to the Hebrews.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\n\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>&quot;Let us run\nwith patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and\nfinisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the\ncross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of\nGod.&quot;\u00c2&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#460000'>(See Hebrews 12:1-2)<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>In his letter to\nthe <span class=SpellE>Ekklesia<\/span> in Philippi, Paul wrote,<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>&quot;Being\nconfident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will\nperform it until the day of Jesus Christ.&quot;\u00c2&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>(Philippians 1:6)<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>You will remember\nthe 6th step of the 15:<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\n\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:\nArial;color:#006600'>&quot;He <span class=SpellE>leadeth<\/span> me in the paths\nof righteousness for His name's sake.&quot;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Folks, that's what\nall of this is about!&nbsp; This is what the Lord has been doing, and this is\nwhy!&nbsp; His name is at stake in us.&nbsp; Jesus is both author (<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>--<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#192763'>&nbsp;<\/span><span class=SpellE><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>archegos<\/span><\/i><\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>:<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>the one who begins<\/span><\/u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>,<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:maroon'>&nbsp;<\/span><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:maroon'>the cornerstone<\/span><\/u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>,<\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>&nbsp;<\/span><u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>the power or\nprincipality who initiates the first action<\/span><\/u><span style='font-size:\n13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>) and finisher (<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>--<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#192763'>&nbsp;<\/span><span class=SpellE><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>teleiotes<\/span><\/i><\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>--<u>one who\ncompletes to perfection and wholeness<\/u>:<\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>&nbsp;<\/span><u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>maturity<\/span><\/u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>) of our\nrighteousness, our faith and that authentic and divine nature of Him in us.&nbsp;<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>He has been leading\nus in those paths of righteousness so that we will be able to dwell in His\nhouse as his full-fledged brothers and sisters, functioning in that power and\nauthority that is His, and manifesting and flowing in that love of which He\nconsists.&nbsp; Let me take a quick side-trip to show you something here.<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>&quot;In the\nbeginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.&nbsp;\nThe same was in the beginning with God.&nbsp; All things were made by him; and\nwithout him was not <span class=SpellE>any thing<\/span> made that was made.&nbsp;\nIn him was life; and the life was the light of men.&quot;&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>(John 1:1-4)<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Now, let's rephrase\nthis so that it flows with this picture from Psalm 23:6.<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>&quot;In the\nbeginning was the Word, and the Word was with Love, and the Word was Love.&nbsp;\nThe same was in the beginning with Love.&nbsp; All things were made by Love,\nand without Love was not anything made that was made.&nbsp; In Love was Life,\nand that Life was the light of men.&quot;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style='font-size:\n10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Make sense?<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>OK.&nbsp; Then\nlet's have a look at what John wrote in his general epistles.<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>&quot;Behold, what\nmanner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the\nsons of God: therefore the world <span class=SpellE>knoweth<\/span> us not,\nbecause it knew him not.&nbsp; Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth\nnot yet appear what we shall be: but we know that,<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#006600'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>when he shall appear, we shall be\nlike him; for we shall see him as he is.<\/span><\/u><\/i><\/b><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>&quot;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>&nbsp; (I John\n3:1-2)<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>&quot;Beloved, let\nus love one another: for love is of God; and every one that <span class=SpellE>loveth<\/span>\nis born of God, and <span class=SpellE>knoweth<\/span> God.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#006600'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>He that <span class=SpellE>loveth<\/span>\nnot <span class=SpellE>knoweth<\/span> not God; for God is love.<\/span><\/u><\/i><\/b><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>&nbsp; .....&nbsp;\nAnd we have known and believed the love that God hath to us.<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#006600'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>God is love;<\/span><\/u><\/i><\/b><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#006600'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>and<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#006600'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>he that <span class=SpellE>dwelleth<\/span>\nin love <span class=SpellE>dwelleth<\/span> in God<\/span><\/u><\/i><\/b><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>, and God in\nhim.&quot;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#460000'>&nbsp; (I John 4:7-8, 16)<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>We've just finished<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>&quot;Surely\ngoodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my <span class=SpellE>life,&quot;<span\nstyle='color:#460000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'>and<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'> we talked about\nthe fact that &quot;goodness and mercy&quot; are facets of<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><span\nclass=SpellE><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#192763'>k<\/span><\/i><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#192763'>heseed<\/span><\/i><\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>.&nbsp;<\/span><span class=SpellE><i><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>K<\/span><\/i><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>heseed<\/span><\/i><\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>cannot follow us\nwithout love being the driving force behind it.<\/span><span style='font-size:\n10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Thus, to<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>&quot;dwell in the\nHouse of the Lord forever&quot;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>&nbsp;<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>signifies the fact\nthat Jesus has most certainly accomplished his goal and objective in our nature,\nour character, our makeup.&nbsp; This is a change of<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><span\nclass=SpellE><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#192763'>onoma<\/span><\/i><\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#460000'>for us.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>When John wrote,<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>&quot;Beloved, now\nare we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be,&quot;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#460000'>&nbsp;<\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#460000'>he could well have expressed that from the perspective of &quot;The\nLord is my Shepherd.&quot;&nbsp; When we first make Jesus Christ the Lord and Shepherd\nof our lives, we really have no clue where He is taking us, where our lives are\ngoing to be led, and what He is going to make of us.<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>For those of you\nwho've walked with the Lord for many years, take a look back to the day and\ntime you first invited Jesus Christ to become Lord of your life.&nbsp; Did you\nhave any idea of the change that would unfold in your life?&nbsp; Have you not\nprospered in your relationship with Him since?&nbsp; Are you anything today\nlike you were before you made that decision?<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Let me take this\nquestioning a bit farther.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\n\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>If you've walked\nwith the Lord in the paths of righteousness for 30, 40, 50 years or more as I\nhave, consider where you were in your understanding of the Lord 10 or 20 years\nago.&nbsp; Consider your walk in the Spirit.&nbsp; Do you still think like you\ndid then?&nbsp; Has your understanding of certain truths of the Gospel\nincreased?<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Della and I were\ntalking the other day about the changes that have taken place in us in just the\npast ten years.&nbsp; Things I thought to be truth back ten years or 15 years\nago were still somewhat clouded or shrouded in a mist.&nbsp; Some of what I\nbelieved then -- and I'm choosing my words carefully -- I've since discovered\nto have been in error.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>That doesn't make\nus heretics or &quot;fringe&quot; Christians.&nbsp; It just means that the\nlonger we have dwelled with and in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, the\nmore He has revealed of His character, His nature and His makeup.&nbsp;\nLikewise, the more our character, our nature and makeup has been changed.<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>We were laughing\nover the changes that have taken place in both of us in the past 20+\nyears.&nbsp; Wow!&nbsp; I was listening to an old recording of some teaching\nthat I did on Spiritual Warfare made more than 25 years ago.&nbsp; Has my\nunderstanding <b>ever<\/b><\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>&nbsp;<\/span><span style='font-size:\n13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>been enlarged since then!&nbsp; It's\nnot that there has been an altering of the fundamental truth of our authority\nover Satan; it's that revelation has literally exploded in my being of the\ndegree of that authority; it is that there has been an unveiling of the devices\nthat Satan uses against God's people, and just how simple it is to defeat him\nand those devices.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>The apostle Paul,\nin his second epistle to the Corinthian <span class=SpellE>Ekklesia<\/span>,\nwrote,<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\n\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:\nArial;color:#006600'>&quot;But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass\nthe glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory,\neven as by the Spirit of the Lord.&quot;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style='font-size:\n13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>&nbsp; (II Corinthians 3:18)<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Without getting\ninto all of the words used in the original Greek text, let me expand this\nstatement for you.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>&quot;But all of us,\nwith the mystery and shroud stripped away, seeing mirrored the outward\nmanifestation of the Glory of the Lord, are [being] changed, transformed and\nmetamorphosed into that same representation of His Glory by the Holy Spirit,\nsystematically and progressively, from the first Glory to the next, until we\nreach the final manifestation of His Glory in us.&quot;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>THAT, my friends --\nthat &quot;final manifestation&quot; -- is what brings us to the place of\ndwelling &quot;in the House of the Lord forever.&quot;<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>The Glory of the\nLord is literally the manifestation of who and what He is.&nbsp; We'll try to\ntake a better or more in-depth look at the whole concept of the Glory in our\nnext Coffee Break.&nbsp; That's a remarkable study in itself, and I'd rather,\nif possible, keep that discussion separate from today's overview of the House\nof the Lord.&nbsp; The Glory of the Lord is directly connected to the House of\nthe Lord, and the two are inseparable, but today we're talking about the aspect\nof God's Love and how Jesus' objective is to transform us into His Love.<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Even saying it like\nthat makes it seem almost mystical or ethereal, and yet there is nothing\nmystical or ethereal about<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#192763'>agape<\/span><\/i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#460000'>.&nbsp;<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#192763'>Agape<\/span><\/i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#460000'>, of course, is the only word ever used in Greek to describe the\nLove of God.&nbsp; This is an unconditional love.&nbsp; This is love in its\nhighest form.&nbsp; What we know as human love (or<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><span\nclass=SpellE><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#192763'>phileo<\/span><\/i><\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>) -- the love that normally exists\nbetween family members, the love that normally brings a man and a woman\ntogether in marriage -- pales next to the Love of God.<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Let's go back to\nCreation for a second.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Genesis 1:3:<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>&quot;And Love\n(God) said, Let there be light [or more accurately, &quot;Light be!&quot;], and\nlight was.&quot;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Genesis 1:26:<\/span><b><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#006600'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>&quot;And Love (God) said, Let us\nmake man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion....[or,\nmore accurately, &quot;Man, be in our image, after our likeness, with our\ncapacity for dominion.&quot;]&quot;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>See it?&nbsp; All\nof creation began in Love -- the love that was\/is God!&nbsp; Mankind began its\nexistence in Love -- that same love that was\/is God!&nbsp; That Love that was\nand is (and ever shall be) God brought with it the totality of Adam and Eve's\nexistence.&nbsp; Their existence began in Love.&nbsp; For the length of time\nthey occupied the Garden of Eden, they existed in, through, by and with Love.&nbsp;\nThe Garden of Eden was created in Love.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>&quot;Eden,&quot;\nby the way, translates from the Hebrew<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\nmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>, <span class=SpellE>as:<u>voluptuous<\/u><\/span><u>,\nliving<\/u>,<\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>&nbsp; <\/span><u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>pleasure<\/span><\/u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>,<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#460000'>&nbsp; <\/span><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#460000'>delight<\/span><\/u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\n\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:\nArial;color:#460000'>. No word better describes the environment of God's Love.&nbsp;\nIt is an environment that brings with it revelation -- a constant flow of\ndivine knowledge and understanding that links one with the Lord in, by, and\nthrough the Holy Spirit.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>The fact that the love-relationship\nbetween Adam and Eve and God was lost because of their having chosen to violate\nGod's command and eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil also\nsignified the loss of<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#192763'>agape<\/span><\/i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#460000'>(the Hebrew equivalent is<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\nmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'> --<\/span><i><span style='font-size:\n13.5pt;font-family:\"WL LatinAllIn1Cour\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>hesed<\/span><\/i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>) being manifested\nthrough human flesh.&nbsp; That loss necessitated a plan (not &quot;Plan\nB&quot;, since the Lord was not taken off-guard when this happened) being\nimplemented so that<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#192763'>agape<\/span><\/i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>&nbsp;<\/span><span style='font-size:\n13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>could be returned and manifested\nthrough a people who purposely chose to make the Lord their Shepherd, and were\nwilling for the Lord to work whatever was necessary in them to restore the flow\nof<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\n\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>agape<\/span><\/i><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>between God and\nman.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Adam and Eve were,\nfor all intents and purposes, kicked out of &quot;the House of the Lord&quot;\nwhen they chose academic and experientially-gained knowledge over the revelation\nthat comes through agape.&nbsp; Now, perhaps, you understand why the objective\nof the Lordship and Shepherding of Jesus Christ in our lives is &quot;the House\nof the Lord forever.&quot;&nbsp; This isn't just for our sake: this is for His\nsake -- His name's sake!<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Sin is so degrading\nto the human frame and so destructive to our existence that overnight change\nand transformation -- restoration, if you will -- back to that place of the\nGlory of the Lord must be step-by-step, stage-by-stage, Glory-to-Glory until\nthe work is completed.&nbsp; Sinful flesh simply cannot handle the Glory of the\nLord.&nbsp; Flesh, though our mind, our will, our purpose is to walk with God,\nhas within its genetic DNA the residual demands and commands of a way of life\ntotally contrary to agape.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\n\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Our transformation\nat the Cross -- that is to say, our acceptance and acknowledgement of what\nJesus Christ has accomplished on our behalf -- is a legal change.&nbsp; The\npaths of righteousness have been established for our daily walk so that what is\nat first legal now becomes experiential.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>I've been teaching\nhere at River Worship Center for many weeks this same study of the 15 Steps\nrevealed in the 23rd Psalm, and -- of course -- taking a lot more time to\nexplore each of these steps than I've been able to do in these Coffee Breaks.&nbsp;\nOver the past few weeks, we've been stuck on<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\nmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><b><i><span style='font-size:\n13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#006600'>&quot;He <span class=SpellE>leadeth<\/span>\nme in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake,&quot;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>and I've been\nsharing the whole concept of righteousness as it is revealed in the Word.<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Simply put, the\nword &quot;righteousness&quot; comes from a uniquely Hebrew word:<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'> --<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:#192763'>&nbsp;<\/span><span class=SpellE><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>tsedeq<\/span><\/i><\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>, which translates\nto (in an ethical sense):<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n11.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'>&nbsp;<\/span><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:maroon'>being right or even with<\/span><\/u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>;<\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>&nbsp;<\/span><u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>on the same level<\/span><\/u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:maroon'>&nbsp;<\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:maroon'>[that is,<\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>&nbsp;<\/span><u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>thinking the same<\/span><\/u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>,<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:maroon'>&nbsp;<\/span><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;\ncolor:maroon'>speaking the same<\/span><\/u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nfont-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>,<\/span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;\nmso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>&nbsp;<\/span><u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>doing the same thing<\/span><\/u><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>].<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>&nbsp; It has other\nconnotations, too, but these are the ones we will restrict ourselves to for the\nsake of today's discussion.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\n\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>David's description\nof the &quot;House of the Lord&quot; is that place where we are functionally on\nthe same level with the Lord Jesus Christ.&nbsp; Please note that I've said\n&quot;functionally&quot; -- NOT <span class=SpellE>positionally<\/span>.&nbsp;\nDo go off half-cocked and start suggesting that <span class=SpellE>Regner<\/span>\n<span class=SpellE>Capener<\/span> is preaching the errant Mormon doctrine that\n&quot;as Christ once was, we now are; as He now is, we shall become.&quot;&nbsp;\nThat's not what this is about.&nbsp; We are heirs and joint-heirs with Jesus\nChrist.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>Without Jesus\nChrist we cannot be seated together with Him in Heavenly Places.&nbsp; We will\nnever replace Him at the right hand of the Father.&nbsp; He will always have\nthat preeminent position.<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#460000'>That said, it is\nHis will, His desire, His ultimate plan and purpose for us to function exactly\nlike He does with that same divine power and authority that He has been\nbuilding in us.&nbsp; And that power and authority can only function through\nagape -- God's Love.&nbsp; Thus, agape has to become part and parcel of our\nnature, our character, the very essence of our existence so that we can dwell\ntogether with Him in His house -- FOREVER!<\/span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\ncolor:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><i><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>The Bible is\nneither a collection of laws and commandments nor a book of rules.&nbsp; It\ncontains 66 bags of seed that we can plant in our lives.&nbsp; As long as we\nactually plant that seed, and then water it appropriately with our daily\nconfession of faith, we will receive the expected and very tangible harvest.<\/span><\/i><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;background:#FCFDFD'><span\nstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:\"Garamond\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#192763'>Blessings on you!<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#262C2C'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> \n<div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-left in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:left;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-2 hover-type-none\" style=\"margin-right:25px;float:left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"121\" height=\"72\" title=\"Signature\" src=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Signature.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-4230\"\/><\/span><\/div><div class=Section1>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:\n.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Regner\n  A. 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