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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture, a calming,

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Speaker 2: Scriptured center devotional podcast designed to help you end each

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Speaker 2: day with God's Word in your mind and on your heart.

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Speaker 2: Right after the short word from our sponsors, we will

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Speaker 2: reflect on tonight's scripture, Romans chapter eight. Our evening reflection

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Speaker 2: is written by Meg Butcher and read by Kyle Mormon.

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Speaker 2: Romans Chapter eight. Therefore, there is now no condemnation for

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Speaker 2: those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus,

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Speaker 2: the Law of the Spirit who gives life, has set

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Speaker 2: you free from the law of sin and death. For

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Speaker 2: what the law was powerless to do, because it was

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Speaker 2: weakened by the flesh. God did by sending his own

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Speaker 2: son in the likeness of the sinful flesh, to be

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Speaker 2: a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the

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Speaker 2: flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law

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Speaker 2: might be fully met in us, who do not live

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Speaker 2: according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Those

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Speaker 2: who live according to the flesh have their minds set

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Speaker 2: on what the flesh desires. But those who live in

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Speaker 2: accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what

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Speaker 2: the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death,

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Speaker 2: but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

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Speaker 2: The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God

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Speaker 2: and does not submit to God's law, nor can it

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Speaker 2: do so. Those who are in the realm of the

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Speaker 2: flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the

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Speaker 2: realm of the flesh, but are in the realm of

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Speaker 2: the Spirit. If indeed, the Spirit of God lives in you.

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Speaker 2: If anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, they

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Speaker 2: do not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you,

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Speaker 2: and even though your body is subject to death because

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Speaker 2: of sin, the Spirit gives you life because of righteousness.

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Speaker 2: And if the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from

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Speaker 2: the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ

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Speaker 2: from the dead will also give life to your immortal

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Speaker 2: bodies because of His Spirit who lives in you. Therefore,

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Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but as not

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Speaker 2: to the flesh, to live according to it. For if

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Speaker 2: you live according to the flesh, you will die. But

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Speaker 2: if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds

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Speaker 2: of the body, you will live. For those who are

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Speaker 2: led by the Spirit of God are children of God,

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Speaker 2: the spirit you receive does not make you slaves so

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Speaker 2: that you live in fear again. Rather, the spirit you

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Speaker 2: received brought about your adoption to sonship, and by him

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Speaker 2: we cry abba Father. The Spirit himself testifies with our

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Speaker 2: spirit that we are God's children. Now, if we are children,

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Speaker 2: then we are heirs, heirs of God and co errs

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Speaker 2: with Christ. If indeed we share in his sufferings in

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Speaker 2: order that we might also share his glory, I consider

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Speaker 2: that the present sufferings are not worth comparing with the

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Speaker 2: glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation

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Speaker 2: waits an eager expectation for the children of God to

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Speaker 2: be revealed. For the creation was subject to frustration, not

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Speaker 2: by its own choice, but by the will of the

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Speaker 2: one who subjected it in hope that the creation itself

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Speaker 2: would be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought

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Speaker 2: into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

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Speaker 2: We know that the whole creation has been growing as

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Speaker 2: in the pains of childbirth, right up to the present time.

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Speaker 2: Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first

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Speaker 2: fruits of the spirit grown inwardly. As we wait eagerly

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Speaker 2: for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.

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Speaker 2: For in this hope we were saved. But hope that

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Speaker 2: a scene is no hope at all. Who hopes for

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Speaker 2: what they already have. But if we hope for what

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Speaker 2: we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

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Speaker 2: In the same way the Spirit helps us in our weaknesses.

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Speaker 2: We do not know what we ought to pray for,

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Speaker 2: but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.

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Speaker 2: And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of

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Speaker 2: the spirit. Because the Spirit intercedes for God's people and

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Speaker 2: accorded us with the will of God. And we know

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Speaker 2: that in all things God works for the good of

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Speaker 2: those who love Him, who have been called according to

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Speaker 2: His purpose. For those God foreignew he also predestined to

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Speaker 2: be conformed to the image of his son, that he

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Speaker 2: might be the first born among many brothers and sisters.

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Speaker 2: And those he predestined he also called. Those he called,

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Speaker 2: he also justified, those he justified he also glorified. What then,

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Speaker 2: shall we say in response to these things? God is

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Speaker 2: for us? Who can be against us? He who did

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Speaker 2: not spare his own son, but gave him up for

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Speaker 2: us all, How will he not also along with him

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Speaker 2: graciously give us all things. Who will bring any charge

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Speaker 2: against those whom God has chosen. It is God who

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Speaker 2: justifies who that is the one who condemns no one

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Speaker 2: Christ Jesus, who died more than that who is raised

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Speaker 2: to life. Is that the right hand of God is

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Speaker 2: also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the

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Speaker 2: love of Christ, shall trouble or hardship or persecution, famine

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Speaker 2: or nakedness, or danger or sword, as it is written,

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Speaker 2: for your sake, we face death all day long. We

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Speaker 2: are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. Know in all

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Speaker 2: these things we are more than conquerors through Him who

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Speaker 2: loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life,

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Speaker 2: neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future,

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Speaker 2: nor any powers, neither height nor depth or anything else

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Speaker 2: in all creation will be able to separate us from

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Speaker 2: the Love of God, that is in Christ, Jesus, our Lord.

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Speaker 2: This passage of scripture is filled with cornerstone truths of

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Speaker 2: the Christian faith. There are so many notes, underlines and

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Speaker 2: highlights on these pages of my Bible that I scarcely

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Speaker 2: have room to add more. I leave a trail of

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Speaker 2: where I have been in my Bible, and I have

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Speaker 2: trouble paying attention. So I highlight and underline, repeat things

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Speaker 2: in notes in the margins, and even started decorating the

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Speaker 2: pages with stickers. Whatever happens helps ME concentrate on these

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Speaker 2: words and remember what they need so that I can

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Speaker 2: apply them to my life. Letting the Spirit control your

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Speaker 2: mind leads you to life and peace. Romans eight, verse

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Speaker 2: six B from the New Living Translation. This is how

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Speaker 2: I put the work into doing that, every day, opening

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Speaker 2: up the word, highlighting it, underlining, marking, noting, stickering, meditating

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Speaker 2: on it. I still don't always remember what I have

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Speaker 2: studied by the end of the day. The human mind

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Speaker 2: can be fickle and forgetful, but I keep trying. Romans

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Speaker 2: eight is a passage. We can study our whole lives

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Speaker 2: and still not be able to digest and apply everything

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Speaker 2: in it. Isn't that true of Scripture as a whole.

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Speaker 2: Yet we leave a trail to track our journey with

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Speaker 2: God along the way and do our best to follow

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Speaker 2: his need humanity and all. Father. Tonight, I pray specifically

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Speaker 2: for you to fill me with your spirit. Let your

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Speaker 2: truth control my mind so that my thoughts that actions

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Speaker 2: lead me to life and peace. Help me to see

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Speaker 2: the world and others, even myself through your eyes. God,

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Speaker 2: Help me to remember what I meditate upon in the morning,

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Speaker 2: to the very end of the day and beyond. In

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Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray Amen. How did Tonight's scripture speak

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