Hello, this is Jensen Franklin, and thank you so much for joining us for this week's podcast.

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ever have to miss a new message. Let's go right into the service recorded at Free Chapel.

I believe it's going to bless you today.

And if you have your Bibles, can you turn with me to the Book of Galatians chapter 5?

And I want us to start reading in verse 10.

I'm sorry, verse 7.

You were running a good race.

Everybody say, who cut in on you?

That was pitiful. Are y'all good? Okay, who cut in on you? To keep you from obeying the truth. Y'all don't have to keep repeating the whole thing.

That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.

A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.

I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view.

The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty. You were running a good race. Paul, more than any other author in the Bible,

he refers to our following of our Christ's relationship with Jesus, our, as we're Christians.

He continually, through his teachings and through his writings,

refers to it as a race, as a marathon.

And he says, keep running the good race, run,

and, you know, I don't really understand this

because I'm not a runner, it's not my thing.

I like more violent forms of working out,

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