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Welcome to the Word of the Lord Endures Forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

How easy it is to deceive ourselves and forget the countless ways that we are burdensome to others and that they have to put up with us.

Rather than imagining that your God's gift to the world a little humility and an honest look in the mirror is what's required.

The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church,

past and present. Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the book of Galatians.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Amen.

Greetings, people loved by God.

In our previous study, St. Paul had drawn a clear and unmistakable line between the works of the flesh and the fruit of the spirit.

He began by urging us to be led by the Spirit to keep in step with him, and then we would not be under the law, in the law, but not under it, not experiencing it as an oppressive burden.

The flesh constantly pushes us toward things such as sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, strife, jealousy, fits of anger,

rivalries, disinches, divisions, NVN, drunkenness orgies, and things like that. They're all marked

for the way they tear at the fabric of family or society, and each one has an impenitent eye

solidly on the throne of one's life.

Paul warned in clearest terms that those who make a practice of doing such things

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