The Epic Life podcast is designed to encourage you live a radical and adventurous EPIC life for Jesus Christ! We share Biblical teachings of God’s Word delivered by Pastor Bob Hallman. Through the material we share, it’s our goal to support, strengthen and encourage you to” Love God, Love Others and Make Disciples”!
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The book of Exodus actually picks up where Genesis leaves off. And now through this book, we're being introduced to these great themes of deliverance that God brought to the people of Israel coming out of Egypt and out of bondage. And in the midst of this leadership that Moses exercises in bringing the people out of bondage, God begins to meet with…
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Dying To Defend | Acts 19:21-41
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But God is good, and when he's on the throne, things get better. And especially when we recognize that he's on the throne. I entitled the message "dying to defend" for two reasons: Have you ever been accused falsely? Not very many of us, right? I mean, the honest truth is, we're usually accused of stuff we've done, not for stuff we haven't done. It…
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20. John's Final Words of Encouragement (1 John 5:14-21)
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John is wrapping up the second book that he's written. And there are more to come. He certainly got second and third John, but also the book of Revelation. But in the book of John,the Gospel of John, he had basically two objectives. One was that his readers would hear the good news, and secondly, that they would believe the good news. And first, Jo…
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19. You Can be Assured of Eternal Life ( 1 John 5:5-13)
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If you want to grow, if you want to be godly, if you want to be right with God, if you want to be fruitful, if you want to be full of joy and purpose and meaning, the first place to start is your relationship with Jesus Christ. That's the first place is drawn here to Him, abide in Him. Everything else flows out of that. If you want anything that Go…
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18. The Secret to Loving Others (1 John 5:1-15)
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We've been going through the book of 1 John and considering the life of the authentic Christian. And as I've said repeatedly over the last number of months, If it isn't authentic, it's not worth living. If we aren't going to be serious about completely giving ourselves to the things of the kingdom, then it's not worth being a hypocrite, because it'…
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The authentic Christian life, and as I've been saying for a number of weeks here, in fact, a couple of months, if it's not authentic, it's not worth living. It's not worth going to church. It's not worth reading your Bible if it's not authentic. It's a waste of our time. It's a waste of my time. And I'm not talking about you being a waste of my tim…
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The topic of his message to the people that he's writing to, is love. It's the supreme test. It's a supreme authentic test for true Christianity. As I've been teaching, that without love, we can be all kinds of things. We can be knowledgeable about Scripture. We can be gifted. We can be teachers. We can be worship leaders. We can be serving after c…
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15. Don't Believe Everything You Hear (1 John 4:1-69)
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We've been, again, looking through the book of 1 John at the qualities of the authentic Christian life. That's what living the Christian life is all about. In fact, when I was at Kapa 'a High the other day, I had a question-and-answer time for about 15 minutes and one of the kids said that the biggest turn off for them is hypocrisy. And one of the …
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14. Walking the Talk (1 John 3:16-24)
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Last week, as I was talking about the example of Cain, there are a couple of things that came to mind in terms of hate and love. And when I think of hate and the example of Cain, hate is negative. Clearly, it's a very negative kind of quality. It's a quality that God doesn't allow in our lives unless we're hating sin and hating evil. And hate when …
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13. The Warning of Cain (1 John 3:11-15)
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The thing that's so sad is oftentimes there are Christians, and I don't think we have any in this church, but sometimes it's a struggle for us. Sometimes we'll slip and fall and we'll find it's kind of half in and half out of God's kingdom in our hearts. And it's misery. It's really awful because we can't enjoy sin and we can't enjoy our relationsh…
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12. The Truth About Sin (1 John 3:4-10)
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This last couple of weeks we've been taking a look at the book of 1st John, and it's just been marvelous seeing what God has for us as believers. It's incredible. And this last week, John kind of interrupts himself in chapter three. If you want to start turning there, that would be great. But he interrupts himself as he's talking about the authenti…
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11. Out of This World! (1 John 3:1-3)
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Between authentic Christianity and Gnosticism, which again, for those of you that haven't been here with us, is just the teaching and belief that You can profess one thing with your mouth and have a spiritual relationship with God and at the same time live any way that you want So there are no constraints. You can do anything that your heart desire…
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10. Confident and Unashamed (1 John 2:28-29)
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The first thing that John tells us in this verse in chapter 2, verse 28, he says, "Continue in him." And this word "continue," it's a different word than we've been looking at in the last couple of times we've been studying first, John, but it's the same word as remain. It's the same word as to abide. It's the same Greek root word, but the context …
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09. Spiritual Perils in the Last Days (1 John 2:18-27)
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John has been speaking as I've said so many times in the course of this study, to Gnostics. And he's speaking to the early church about the perils of Gnosticism. And he continues his address in first John dealing with the spiritual perils of the last days. And part of that spiritual peril is the Antichrist. And John more specifically addresses Anti…
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08. In This World, Not of It (1 John 2:12-15)
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I'm looking out at all of you and I'm thinking, "That's my sister. That's my brother. We're going to be together forever." So even though you're strangers to me, I got to meet a few of you. It's like, "Man, we're family. We're permanent family. That's wonderful. First John chapter 2 verse 15. The scripture says, "Do not love the world or anything i…
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07. Growing Up in Christ (1 John 2:12-14)
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You know, John has been laying out what it means to be an authentic Christian, what it means to be a genuine Christian. And, he's laid out a number of things for us the genuine authentic believer walks in the light, acknowledges and confesses sin, obeys God's commands, and walks as Jesus walked. And he's laid out some pretty stiff standards for wha…
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06. Love: The Timeless Command (1 John 2:7-11)
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We've been taking a look at some of the characteristics of the authentic Christian life.And if you recall, one of John's primary aims is that we would have fellowship with a father, with the son, and with one another. And that fellowship, if it's genuine, authentic Christian fellowship, is centered on Jesus Christ. He talks about several characteri…
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05. Obedience: The Fruit of Love (1 John 2:3-6)
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First John chapter 2 starting in verse 3. We know that we have come to know Him if we obey His commands. "The man who says, 'I know him,' but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him." But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him. Whoever claims to live in him m…
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04. You've got a Friend (1 John 2:1-2)
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I hung out with a bunch of different groups. I didn't just hang with one group and so I would kind of bounce around. But I'd even go to parties. I'd be with all kinds of people that liked me and that I like. And I'd still just this emptiness inside. And I'd turn on James Taylor. And you know, when you're done, and you need help, and you know his mu…
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03 Sin is Such an Ugly Word (1 John 1:8-10)
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We've been going through the book of 1st John. And we've looked at the Gnostic heresy. We won't go into a lot of that. I am trusting that some of you that have come from other parts of the country are well -taught and are somewhat familiar with Gnosticism. But I am going to touch on it just a little bit, some more aspects of Gnostic heresy that wil…
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02 Can Someone Please turn on the Light? (1 John 1:5-7)
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Do you remember those days when you were afraid of the dark and you wanted the little light on? So, I've got to turn the light on. And in fact, if I don't and I forget and I go out the door and he forget, I'll hear this cry, "Daddy, you know, I need the light on." And so I have to come back up, and he's just not comfortable until the light Is on. A…
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01 Just the Facts, Nothing but the Facts (1 John 1:1-4)
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You know, I was meeting with the Father, and I was meeting with some friends this week and non -Christian friends, people that we've met here since we've come to the islands, and one of the things that has struck me in my conversation, not just with them, but with a number of unbelievers that I've been speaking to since we've arrived, and the thing…
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7. A Righteousness From God (Romans 3:21)
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Even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood through faith to demonstrate His righteou…
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There is none who does good, no, not one. Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have practiced deceit the poison of asks is under their tongue under their lips Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness their feet are swift to shed blood destruction and misery are In their ways and they know the way of peace but have not and the …
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4. To Judge or Not To Judge (Romans 2:1)
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Paul has made a powerful statement that "Mankind is guilty before God in chapter one." He's posited that God has revealed himself and we have rejected him. Step by step, God continues to reveal himself and continues to present the gospel through the prophets and his word and the scriptures and the testimony of the saints. And yet, there is this ten…
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3. The Wrath of God Revealed (Romans 1:18-32)
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It's such an important component of the Gospel is understanding God's indignation toward sin. And so let's take a look at the text itself, and then we'll consider its application to our life this morning. Beginning at verse 18 of chapter one in Romans, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,…
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2. Unleashing the Gospel | Romans 1:8-17
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Pastor Bob’s preached his last sermon series in 2017 in the book of Romans. Due to his cancer diagnosis, he was unable to finish the entire book but you can hear an older version of subsequent chapters (include the link). His last sermon from Romans 3, “A Righteousness from God” is especially powerful! He uses the cancer diagnosis process as an ill…
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1. Intro To Romans | A Righteousness From God (Romans 3:21)
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Pastor Bob’s preached his last sermon series in 2017 in the book of Romans. Due to his cancer diagnosis, he was unable to finish the entire book but you can hear an older version of subsequent chapters Romans — The Epic Life His last sermon from Romans 3, “A Righteousness from God” is especially powerful! He uses the cancer diagnosis process as an …
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7. Fellowshipping with the Holy Spirit (John 16:5-15)
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As I consider this text, fellowshipping with the Holy Spirit and the text that I just read, I'm surprised at how important this work of the ministry is of the Holy Spirit. So important that Jesus said to his disciples, "It's far better that I leave than stay." And I'm thinking to myself, how could it be better than having Jesus right next to you? A…
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One of the things that's been happening this last week is that a lot of people in the fellowship have been getting really hammered. hammered with spiritual warfare. And for those of you who don't live here, this place is a gorgeous place. I mean, I think it's probably one of the prettiest places in the world. It's certainly up in the top ten, if no…
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5. Part B-The Use and Operation of Spiritual Gifts (I Cor 12:1-11)
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1 Corinthians chapter 12. Now, about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. You know that when you were pagan somehow or other, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. Therefore, I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Hol…
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4. A-The Use and Operation of Spiritual Gifts ( I Cor 12:1-11)
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A particular type of gift, the elitist gift, is that if you don't have it, somehow, you're not really a believer, somehow, you're not really a Christian. Of course, those things aren't true, we know that. But as we watch that kind of abuse, the rest of us who believe in the gifts because they're scriptural, they're laid out for us repeatedly in the…
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3. Purpose of Spiritual Gifts (1 Corinth 12:12-26)
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Something's just not quite right when it's being abused, and we know that. And you can see the self -centeredness of that kind of usage of the gifts. And then what happens to a lot of us, I would say the larger part of the Christian church, because of that abuse, we've tended to kind of be like, off from the gifts. And we assent to them, we acknowl…
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2.Part 2: The Purpose of Spiritual Gifts - (1 Cor 12:12-26)
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If we abuse the gifts, then we're doing damage to the body of Christ and certainly not using them for the purpose for which Christ gave them. them through the Holy Spirit. And so, I talked about that last week and we're building kind of a foundation from which we can understand the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And I talked about the fact that the foun…
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1.Part 1: Foundation of Love - I Cor 13
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There's lots of abuse when it comes to the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and almost always it results from a lack of love, a misunderstanding about the foundational truth of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And I'm going to get to that in a few minutes, so I'll explain that. It's almost always emphasizing the individual rather than the corporate body, whe…
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The Bible starts out in the book of John with John speaking of Jesus Christ. He's the Messiah He was pre -existent. He is distinct from the father and the and the Holy Spirit and at the same time He is deity. He is God and so John starts out with his grandiose beginning of explaining who Jesus Christ is. Today we're going to be looking at John the …
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40. The Recommissioning of Peter (John 21:15-25)
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Very specifically, through Christ, to a certain lifestyle and to follow Him and to make disciples, we're going to go over some of this. But in the face of discouragement and Peter's own failure, he went back to what he was most comfortable with in the past, and he went fishing, and we talked about that life. last week. But, as Romans 11, 29 tells u…
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39. Absent Without Leave (John 21:1-14)
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I've entitled the teaching today "Absent Without Leave." For those of you in the military with any military background, and most of you that don't have military background, you know what? What absent without leave means, it means a situation where a soldier commissioned to do a certain post or a certain responsibility leaves without the authorizati…
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For Christ, it's not sightings, it's appearances. Why? Because Christ made himself absolutely visible. You know, he wasn't hiding. He wasn't transporting us up into heaven and dissecting our brain and switching parts and then putting us back and trying to to erase our memories so that we couldn't recall what happened to us. No, I mean it's like Jes…
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37."It is Finished!" (John 19:16-30)
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You know, over the years and over the millennia, there have been a number of men who have claimed to be enlightened and to have the word of truth. I think about Muhammad, Siddhartha Gautama, who was Buddha. We have Confucius and, of course, Jesus Christ. Each of these men, men died and was buried. But only one rose from the dead, never to die again…
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36. Wonder if You're Loved? (John 18:28-19)
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And I titled the message Wonder if you're Loved. And there are very few of us who at times don't wonder or have that great need to know that yes, we are loved, and we are loved. That's one of the greatest needs actually that God has placed in our hearts. I believe, Even more than in some cases, more than some of the basic necessities of life. We ha…
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35. Dealing with Life's Disappointments (John 18:1-27)
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This is a pretty powerful passage. There's an awful lot happening in a very condensed period of time. The hours are short before Jesus' death. He is about to give up everything for you and for me. He's going to pay the ultimate price for our sin that we can be reconciled to God. But before that happens, there are some final catastrophic disappointm…
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34. Jesus' Commissioning Prayer - Part 2 (John 17:20-26)
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Last message we talked about Jesus' commissioning prayer, and if you recall, the first three things that Jesus prayed for his disciples, for the growth and expansion of the kingdom, was protection. And we need it. We need protection from sin and the world, but we also need protection from the onslaught of the enemy. So, Jesus prays right away for p…
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31. Surprised by Joy! (John 16:17-33)
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"So with you, now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. In that day, you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my father will give you whatever you ask him in mind. my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive and your joy …
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30. The Gift of the Holy Spirit (John 16:5-16)
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This is Jesus speaking with his disciples. And if you recall, he's in this upper room discourse with his disciples. It's one of the longest stretches in Scripture of Jesus speaking. speaking and the most intimate of all his communication with his disciples. And it's going to go on for quite a while through this book. And we're going to be finishing…
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29. Like Father - Like Son -Like Disciple (John 15:18-16:4)
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You do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you. No servant is greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they would obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do n…
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28. Fruitful Christianity or Bearing Fruit in Real Life (John 15:1-17)
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And so we have an opportunity to kind of be participants in that very private time with his disciples, and it's been made very public so that we can participate in it through the Word of God. Beginning in verse 1, Jesus is speaking. He says, "I am the true vine, and my father is the gardener." He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, whi…
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27. Obedience: The Measure of Love (John 14:15-31)
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The final chapters of John comprised primarily this very intimate conversation that Jesus is having with his disciples in the upper room and last week we looked at the fact that there is no other way except through Christ and Jesus. We finished up that section talking about prayer and how we can know with certainty that our prayers will be answered…
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26. There is No Other Way (John 14:1-14)
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Trust also in me. In my Father's house or in many rooms, if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me so that you also may be with me. be where I am. You know the way to the place where I'm going. Thomas said to him, "Lord …
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25. Betrayal, Denial & the Truth About Prophecy (John 13:18-38)
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"My children, I will be with you only a little longer. "You will look for me." and just as I told the Jews, "so I tell you now where I am going, you cannot come. "A new command I give you, love one another. "As I have loved you, so you must love one another. "By this, all men will know that you are my disciples, "if you love one another." Today we'…
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