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And thank you for your support. It's time for another edition of Fighting for the Faith Tuesday, December 16, 2014. All right.

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for tuning in, you're listening to fighting for the faith.

My name is Chris Roseboro.

I am your servant in Jesus Christ and this is the program that dishes up a daily dose of biblical

discernment the goal of which help you to think biblically help you think critically

help you to slow down stop open up your Bible yes what a radical idea.

Stop and open up your Bible and actually compare what people are saying in the name of God to the word of God.

Now this is an exercise by the way that not even the apostles were

exempt from. In fact scripture actually gives us an example where none other

than the apostle Paul had his message, how shall we say,

investigated, checked out according to scripture, and the people who did it were the Burians. And would you believe this?

God did not reprove the Burians instead, they are told that they are noble. Now let me give you the story. It's found in

Acts Chapter 17. I don't know if you know this about the Apostle Paul, you if you end up reading your your Bible

and reading through the book of acts you'll find that the preaching of the gospel

you know yeah total free salvation won by Jesus Christ, by grace alone, through faith, alone.

Yeah, that that message, who, yeah, it has this tendency to, well, meet with resistance.

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