Hey there, good to have you back. We are here for the morning mindset where we're going to get our minds aligned with the truth of God's word.

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the way to connect that to your podcast player. Now, before we dig in, it's important for us to

pray because we need God's help to understand His Word. So Lord God, give us your grace

and teach us how to hear your voice clearly through what the Apostle Paul teaches us today.

We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, friends, we are digging in today again to the Book

of Romans, and it's one of those passages that has many different phrases

all in one verse that are really just a list of instructions. We covered one yesterday,

we talked about living in harmony with one another. Now, today's statement is very different

than that. Today's statement says, do not be haughty, but associate with

the lowly. Now, I wanted to start by bringing two sayings to your mind. Sometimes we hear

someone say, oh, he's part of the upper crest. Well, what is that, what is meant by that? Well, it means he's

maybe well off or he's part of gentry or royalty. He's part of the upper part of society in terms of

how people look at it. Now, God doesn't look at it that way, but that's how people tend to look at it.

And then there's another saying, we say,

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