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Welcome to the Wednesday Bible study.

Hello, my name is Rick Burgess in case we are meeting for the first time.

A host of the Rick Burgess Show, that's my day job.

If you'd like to find out about how you can be part of the daily show, go to Rick Burgess Show.com.

All the information is there. I'm also director of the manchurch.com,

which is a men's discipleship strategy. That website is the hub. That's where you go to get all the

information. You can go click around and find out how the strategy works. And it features high

challenge, followed by high equipping.

We have a strategy at the manchurch.com for your community, your church, accommodation of the

two, where you can be discipling men for multiple years to come.

Look, discipleship is not something that happens overnight. As we have

talked about here many times, your justification is the beginning, not the end. And that sanctification

process is the rest of your life as we begin through the process of learning God's word,

be able to answer now the obedience that's

in response to justification, and that one being a disciple, making disciples, and teaching

ourselves so we can teach other all that he has commanded. That's what Jesus told us to do

when he ascended back to the right hand of the Father and is now in his glorified state.

And when he comes back or we die, there's going to be an expectation that we did that.

And as Jesus said, those who really love me obey me in John 1415.

So if you want to be more prepared to teach the Word of God, to apply the Word of God, to disciple your family, then we're

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