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🗓️ 16 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes we travel to remote destinations only to discover we need to return to the start. |
| 0:15.4 | And today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall shares a timeless lesson. |
| 0:20.3 | Sometimes looking back is the way forward. |
| 0:23.7 | And that's true of churches, too. With exciting growth, churches can lose their first love |
| 0:29.0 | and drift from foundational truth. So how do we recalibrate our lives so we never stray far from |
| 0:35.9 | the path? Let's discover that as we pick up our study in |
| 0:39.5 | Romans 16, beginning at verse 25. Chuck titled his message, to God alone be the glory forever. |
| 0:52.8 | God is the revealer of the good news. |
| 0:59.6 | Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. |
| 1:02.8 | No one comes to the Father, but through me. |
| 1:06.6 | And that sounds so narrow. |
| 1:09.7 | It is. |
| 1:19.1 | It is. He's the revealer of the gospel. One of these words in here I'm always attracted to, and that's the word mystery. |
| 1:26.7 | The preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past. |
| 1:33.1 | We are so blessed to have the gospel revealed in our day, but it wasn't always so. |
| 1:35.8 | It was for a long time mystery. |
| 1:40.2 | Now the word musterion is not the word like our mystery. |
| 1:48.6 | Our mystery is convoluted and it's intriguing and it's complicated. That's our mystery. |
| 1:55.9 | This is a word like secret, something that is going on behind the scenes, but you don't know about it. |
| 2:03.8 | And once the word is out, everybody knows about it. That's our word secret. Illustration. Let's say you've got an 80-year-old dad and a 78-year-old mother and your mom's been sick a long time and she finally |
| 2:09.4 | passes on. And your dad gives your call and he says, I want you to know that your mom is gone and |
| 2:15.4 | plan the service. Oh, dad, we'll be there. |
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