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We've got two units left.

Actually, they're probably going to break out in more than two

because the last one is very large and full of practicality.

In fact, the way to think about these sessions today are that those were foundations

and these are applications. So this is going to be I think a lot

closer to where you live than they were last time and I hope that helps you. So my question now is what are the dynamics of how love or holiness is

produced by living by faith in future grace because we've argued it's essential to

our final salvation not because it purchases it or is the instrument of it like faith is but that it warrants it or credits it or

validates it or is the evidence of it and so love is absolutely essential. And these are familiar texts from last time.

In Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything but faith working through love.

So I just point that out that faith now, and I think I carelessly said is the agent of love and somebody pointed out, what agents are people?

Well, instrument means, you pick your word, faith is working through love here it's it's producing love

same thing in first Timothy Timothy 1-5.

The goal of our instruction is love.

That's an amazing statement of the apostle, isn't it?

The goal of our instruction is love

from a pure heart, good conscience, and sincere faith.

So this love is coming from faith, just like this love is coming from faith.

Now, let's broaden now. We saw those texts,

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