Respect isn't driven by sheer terror, paralyzing terror,

so that you live in the darkness and you're deceitful and hide.

You see respect and trust come together so that your life is open before God.

You recognize that nothing is hidden from him.

But he's made provision for the most significant faults and flaws in your person and your life experience.

That if you'll cooperate with God, none of those things have the ability to disqualify you.

But you understand along with that that he's a just God and a righteous God and a God of

purity and holiness and that without holiness no one will see the Lord.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen.

Be blessed.

This evening is really a continuation of a topic we picked up last Wednesday and I apologize for the interruption.

It's just the way the week worked.

The theme was learning to stand.

And those aren't busy words.

You know, in the book of Ephesians

in the midst of this conversation

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