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Title = 'Romans 13:8-14 - The Responses of the Justified';
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<ul>
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<li>How God Saves Sinners Completely and Perfectly
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<li>Doctrinal — <a id="si_2" onclick="return mV('Rom',1,'1-');">Rom 1-11</a></li>
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<li>Practical — <a id="si_3" onclick="return mV('Rom',12,'1-');">Rom 12-16</a></li>
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<li>Human Responses
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<li>To God</li>
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<li>To self</li>
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<li>To the body — <a id="si_4" onclick="return mV('Rom',13,'8-14');">Rom 13:8-14</a></li>
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<li>To governing authority — <a id="si_5" onclick="return mV('Rom',13,'1-7');">Rom 13:1-7</a>
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<li>Serve</li>
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<li>Love</li>
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<li>Explain Responses
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<li>Man's not God's</li>
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<li>"The ball is not in our court"</li>
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<li>All God's not man's</li>
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<li>"The ball is always in God's court"</li>
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<li>God Produces the Response in the Justified Ones
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<li>We are in process</li>
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<li>We keep drawing from Him</li>
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<li>This is not the human works system</li>
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<li>It is all God</li>
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<li>It is all grace
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<li>Now the response to our neighbor — <a id="si_6" onclick="return mV('Rom',13,'8-10');">Rom 13:8-10</a></li>
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<li>Neighbor — all we are in contact with</li>
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<li>Love</li>
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<li>Not financial</li>
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<li>But a good principle</li>
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<li>Love fulfills all requirements</li>
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<li>Love fulfills all the law</li>
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<li>Love will not hurt the neighbor
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<li>Murder, lie, steal, covet, poison dog, keep lawn mower</li>
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<li>Every conceivable law is fulfilled by love</li>
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<li>Love the neighbor as you love yourself
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<li>Not a command to love self</li>
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<li>We already do</li>
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<li>Everyone</li>
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<li>Too much</li>
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<li>Not to dwell on self-image — me, mine</li>
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<li>Now share that love</li>
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<li>What if love prevailed?</li>
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<li>No bad relationships</li>
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<li>No war, no crime, no jails, no police</li>
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<li>The response to all is love</li>
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<li>The Response to Our Position in Christ — <a id="si_7" onclick="return mV('Rom',13,'11-14');">Rom 13:11-14</a>
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<li>Why position?</li>
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<li>Because we are "Children of the day"</li>
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<li>We are in the Kingdom of Light</li>
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<li>It is time to wake up to the daylight
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<li>It is now — opportunities to love</li>
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<li>What it means
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<li>Out of the sleep of sin
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<li>Carnal security</li>
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<li>Laziness and negligence</li>
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<li>We need to be stirred, revived, quickened
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<li>Watchful — on guard</li>
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<li>Concern
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<li>For spiritual growth</li>
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<li>Righteousness, holiness, purity, moral, ethical</li>
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<li>For sin</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Expectation — insight into time
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<li>Now it is dark</li>
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<li>The is absent "</li>
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<li>The is Light — night and day</li>
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<li>Of Christ —coming
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<li>It is preaching time</li>
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<li>It is worshipping time</li>
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<li>It is working time</li>
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<li>Of our own time
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<li>Temporary opportunity</li>
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<li>Death</li>
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<li>Wake up now!</li>
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<li>Prayer for awakening</li>
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<li>It is time to get dressed for the daylight
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<li>Take off the night clothes
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<li>"Put aside the deeds of darkness"</li>
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<li>The kingdom of darkness — <a id="si_8" onclick="return mV('Col',1,'12-14');">Col 1:12-14</a></li>
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<li>Hate or despise</li>
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<li>Stop</li>
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<li>Put on the day clothes
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<li>The Kingdom of Light</li>
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<li>Put on the armor of light — the armor of righteousness
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<li>Do not be undressed</li>
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<li>Defense — offense</li>
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<li>Spiritual warfare</li>
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<li>Put on the Lord Jesus Christ
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<li>The best clothing</li>
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<li>"What well dressed Christians wear this spring"</li>
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<li>Christ is all</li>
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<li>Without Him we are naked and indecent</li>
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<li>All other wardrobes are as filthy rags — Isaiah</li>
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<li>Unacceptable</li>
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<li>Put on the Lord Jesus Christ</li>
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<li>Savior</li>
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<li>Master</li>
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<li>Ruler</li>
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<li>Owner</li>
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<li>Live your life in Him — with Him</li>
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<li>Occupied with Him</li>
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<li>Looking unto Him — <a id="si_9" onclick="return mV('Heb',12,'1-');">Heb 12</a></li>
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<li>Author — Perfector</li>
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<li>Look away — fixed attention</li>
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<li>The capacity to love comes from Him</li>
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<li>Draw from Him — count on Him</li>
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<li>Augustine — this text</li>
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<li>Wake up now</li>
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<li>Put on the day clothes</li>
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<li>Christ — by faith</li>
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<li>It is time to live in the daylight
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<li>Up!</li>
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<li>Dressed!</li>
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<li>Live! — <a id="si_10" onclick="return mV('Eph',5,8);">Eph 5:8</a></li>
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<li>How to live in the light — day</li>
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<li>Three pairs of misconduct
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<li>Orgies rioting and drunkenness
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<li>Excess of sensual appetite — <a id="si_11" onclick="return mV('Luk',21,34);">Luk 21:34</a></li>
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<li>Harmful, endless pursuits</li>
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<li>Escape from loving</li>
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<li>Sexual immorality and debauchery
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<li>Adultery — fornication, pornography, lewdness, homosexuality</li>
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<li>Harboring thoughts — dwelling on lust</li>
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<li>Indulgence is not love</li>
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<li>It is destructive</li>
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<li>When married sex is right — pure — holy</li>
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<li>Strife and envying
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<li>Dissension — divisive or discord</li>
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<li>Ill will — malice, bitterness, gossip, criticism, anger</li>
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<li>Do we bring people together</li>
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<li>Do we harmonize</li>
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<li>Seek unity</li>
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<li>Love brings unity</li>
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<li>One summary warning</li>
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<li>Do not dwell on how to satisfy the desires of the sinful nature</li>
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<li>Indulging our self — <a id="si_12" onclick="return mV('Gal',5,16);">Gal 5:16</a></li>
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<li>Live in the daylight
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<li>Conclusion — wake up, get dressed, live!</li>
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</ul></li>
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