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structure

Said 40 times, in 26 of 378 sermons, across 13 Sundays. Spoken as 3 forms: structure 29, structured 9, structures 2.

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Romans 28 17
Let Us 2 1

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want you to think about this. A fortress is such a protective structure . God being described as a fortress, that means I can walk int
that we place on independence, right? So much of our lives we structure around basically only being dependent on ourselves, right? We
. I delight, if you want to take it one step further, in your structure . I delight in your plan. I delight in the way you guide and l
everence of the Lord, the authority of God as the cornerstone structure piece. And that is when we can be made complete in our lives.
ing in control may organize our life and give us some kind of structure , what it cannot do is anchor and secure our hearts. And as we
ty and knowing who someone is, what their beliefs, what their structures are, and understanding. This week, some of our location pasto
ts of the earth. The word frame there refers to your skeletal structure . David says the Lord was there and he was weaving together yo
oetry is describing. He says, my frame, meaning bones and the structure of your being, literally what makes you up, my frame was not
hrist Jesus himself being the cornerstone, "in whom the whole structure being joined together "grows into a holy temple in the Lord a
h and every single day. We don't have to any longer come to a structure . We don't have to come to a place where we can go ahead and p

let-us

o stir up one another to love and good works. I like the NKJV structure . It says the same thing, but it's just structured in the sent
ike the NKJV structure. It says the same thing, but it's just structured in the sentence just a little different. And I like this, the

romans

1:1-17
d's word says, and this is why Paul gives them a detailed and structured presentation. And my goal for the series is to do the same to
sometimes that means we put our trust our identity our belief structure in a religion in a ritual or in a tradition for example circu
re's this image we get from the Hubble telescope called the X structure at the core of the Whirlpool galaxy. It's 31 million light ye
hours every single night in silence. Like I just, it was very structured , very regimented house. So we'd go golf ball hunting. And tha
eally say those things anymore, at least in that, not in that structure . We might say, no way. Some of you might say, H-E double hock
on, Jesus Christ to be born of Mary, to live amongst a sinful structure . That's what Roman or that's why John three 16 for God. So lo
this, So then, brothers, we are debtors. Now, the way this is structured , in our English language, might be a little confusing. He's n
nd he wrote me and just said, Pastor, I'm concerned about the structure of our gatherings. Like, our gatherings are like, they're thi
he just questioned it. So to answer that, one, I don't think structure is an enemy of the Lord, right? If I were to just tell you, h
ting. Some of you already show up at weird times, right? So a structure isn't bad. But the truth is, the truth about our gatherings i
I believe he died for the entirety of the sinful system, the structure of all the world, and whoever believes. Yet in that moment, a
hapter in verse number eight called leadership. Those are the structured ones. Those are the ones that take charge of things and want
he is generally a very logistical person, right? He's a very structured person. That's very much how Paul typically writes. And so in
ike the church. God institutes the church. God is the one who structured the church and tells what church is to look like, what church
d. What does that mean? That means we'll be submissive to the structures . The folks he has put in place. Verse two. Therefore whoever
have been instituted by God." Notice God here has established structure . Not sin, but structure. So God has put the structure of the
God." Notice God here has established structure. Not sin, but structure . So God has put the structure of the governing authorities in
blished structure. Not sin, but structure. So God has put the structure of the governing authorities in place, and according to Roman
God-given priorities, our God-given command, we are to honor structure and confront sin. In the justice of the government, we see th
ablished, if we are resisting that, it can be resisting God's structure . And we'll jump into that in a minute. Now, this is not a com
ked, right? There is sin. I said this before. God establishes structure . He does not approve sin. He establishes structure of governm
stablishes structure. He does not approve sin. He establishes structure of government. All throughout the Bible, there were horrible,
ke people who belong to the day. This is what Paul has really structured in this passage of Romans 13 that we're about to read. So let
ds a scripture or it's hard for you, or, you know, some, some structure is difficult for you because now you've got this sensitivity

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