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Let's pray.

Father, our longings are always higher than our capacities and our abilities, because we long for

salvation. because we long for salvation

can not accomplish only you can.

We long for people to be built in their faith and rooted deeply in the truth. We long

for reconciliation among people who are estranged and for a sweet peace to hold sway in

families and in churches.

We long for our worship to be intensified and our obedience to be made radical.

We long for more courage in our hearts and for more vision in our global mission.

Our longings outstrip our abilities and that is as it should be and that's why we pray. We love your word and now come open your word for us. Oh, speak your mighty word and grant that your people

would have ears to hear and minds to understand and hearts to enjoy and wills to obey. In Jesus name, obey.

In Jesus' name, amen.

If you're a true believer, or if you are an unbeliever or if you are a phony believer thinking that you're

a believer when you're not, this text is filled with

important things for you. In fact, so much is here in verse 31 that I never got to verse 32 from which I took

the title to the message. So what I've decided to do in spending the whole time in

this message on verse 31 is to make verse 32 our Easter Sunday text because

it seems to me that if I link it with Chapter 11, I am the resurrection and the life, you will know the truth

and the truth will set you free would be a message probably that anyone you would bring to church next Sunday might be

very, very helped by a believer or unbeliever. Everybody wants to be free. And there are all kinds of different

definitions of what freedom is. And so it just impressed itself on me as I was preparing that I should make verse 32 next Sunday's

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