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Okay, so we are finishing our series today called Simplify.

And we've been every week, I've been reading out of a different version.

Second Corinthians 113, I started with the New American Standard.

The next week I did the New King James last week, I did the message.

This week I'm going to read you the verse out of the New Living Translation.

And this is what it's said in the New Living Translation.

Second Corinthians 113, but I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted.

Just as E was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent.

So here's a title of the message today, the thief of devotion.

Now, I know we would think of a person being Satan, obviously he's behind it.

But I'm going to tell you about an emotion that can be a righteous emotion or an unrighteous emotion that is the thief that shows us in Scripture is the thief of our pure and simple devotion.

Now, I want to also say, I said this last weekend that I called the series Simplify.

And maybe you were thinking I was going to tell you some simple ways to simplify your life.

I am telling you one simple way to simplify your life.

And that is to rekindle your pure simple devotion to Jesus Christ.

That is one of the best ways I know.

So that's what we're talking about.

So we're going to talk about the thief of devotion.

Now, when I said that there is an impure emotion and there's a pure emotion, we can say that about nearly all emotions.

And I want to say something about last weekend.

Last weekend, when I was studying on a Saturday, I got angrier and angrier at legalism.

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