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Now here's Paul with the final session of MetaFaith.

Thank you. with the final session of men of faith. Well, I want to end our three times together

by considering that a man of faith is thankful.

We've talked about that a man of faith is thankful. We've talked about that a man of faith is fearless.

No, it's not because he trusts his own strength and he's got control. It's because his heart has been overwhelmed by the glory of God, by the incalculable wonder of His presence and his power and his promises, and that vertical

fear releases you from horizontal fear.

You're firm of heart.

And because you're firm of heart, your heart doesn't wobble in the face of bad news.

Then we considered how a man of faith is tenderhearted.

That tenderness starts with the devastating message of the gospel that there's nothing that we can do that will please the Lord. The bar is too high,

the measure is too great, the only measure that matters we fall woefully short of. And it is

that humility that is the soil in which tenderness grows.

Was it mean to be tender?

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