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Father, I ask that you would grant understanding of grieve over its presence in our selves and I ask that you would grant ourselves and in the world.

And I ask that you would grant that we would cherish the gospel which alone can deliver

us from the power of evil and its damning effects. And I ask that you would grant us to

pursue the lost and shun the evil. And I pray that one of the effects of this message would be that you would vaccinate

your people with this measure of evil so that they would not die of these diseases.

I pray this in Jesus name, amen.

One of the great blessings of being a Bible-saturated church with a Bible-saturated

eldership and a Bible-saturated eldership and a Bible-saturated people

is that strange juxtapositions in the Bible, the coming together of seemingly contrary emotions and

emphases,

prevent us the juxtaposition that keeps happening in the head of Bible-saturated people, of unlikely things coming together, prevents

us from being a superficial, simplistic, lopsided people.

For example, a simple, superficial, lopsided person might watch someone get angry at an attitude, a sinful attitude in a group of people

and draw the quick conclusion that angry person cannot be a compassionate person.

That angry person can't have empathy.

That angry person can't weep with those who weep.

He's angry. A Bible saturated

person will not draw that conclusion. Too often in his experience of God's word things have

come together that banish that thought out of his mind forever.

For example, Mark 3.5 says,

Jesus looked around on them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart. So forever the thought that you can't feel angry in a holy soul

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