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\\u201cFor\\xa0God so loved\\xa0the world,\\xa0that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not\\xa0perish but have eternal life.\\xa017\\xa0For\\xa0God did not send his Son into the world\\xa0to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:16-17 (ESV)

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 (ESV)

23\\xa0for\\xa0all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24\\xa0and are justified\\xa0by his grace as a gift,\\xa0through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25\\xa0whom God\\xa0put forward as\\xa0a propitiation\\xa0by his blood, to be received by faith\\u2026 Romans 3:21-25(ESV)

For\\xa0by grace you have been saved\\xa0through faith. And this is\\xa0not your own doing;\\xa0it is the gift of God,\\xa09\\xa0not a result of works,\\xa0so that no one may boast.\\xa010\\xa0For\\xa0we are his workmanship,\\xa0created in Christ Jesus\\xa0for good works,\\xa0which God prepared beforehand,\\xa0that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:1-10 (ESV)

15\\xa0For I do not understand my own actions. For\\xa0I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.\\xa016\\xa0Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with\\xa0the law, that it is good.\\xa017\\xa0So now\\xa0it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.\\xa018\\xa0For I know that nothing good dwells\\xa0in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.\\xa019\\xa0For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.\\xa022\\xa0For\\xa0I delight in the law of God,\\xa0in my inner being,\\xa023\\xa0but I see in my members\\xa0another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.\\xa024\\xa0Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from\\xa0this body of death?\\xa025\\xa0Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. Romans 7:21-25 (ESV)

What shall we say then?\\xa0Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?\\xa02\\xa0By no means! How can\\xa0we who died to sin still live in it?\\xa03\\xa0Do you not know that all of us\\xa0who have been baptized\\xa0into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?\\xa04\\xa0We were\\xa0buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as\\xa0Christ was raised from the dead by\\xa0the glory of the Father, we too might walk in\\xa0newness of life. 5\\xa0For\\xa0if we have been united with him in\\xa0a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.\\xa06\\xa0We know that\\xa0our old self\\xa0was crucified with him in order that\\xa0the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. Romans 6:1-6(ESV)

I have been\\xa0crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives\\xa0in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,\\xa0who loved me and\\xa0gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20 (ESV)

16\\xa0But I say,\\xa0walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify\\xa0the desires of the flesh.\\xa017\\xa0For\\xa0the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other,\\xa0to keep you from doing the things you want to do.\\xa018\\xa0But if you are\\xa0led by the Spirit,\\xa0you are not under the law.\\xa019\\xa0Now\\xa0the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,\\xa020\\xa0idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions,\\xa0divisions,\\xa021\\xa0envy,\\xa0drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that\\xa0those who do\\xa0such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.\\xa022\\xa0But\\xa0the fruit of the Spirit is\\xa0love, joy, peace, patience,\\xa0kindness, goodness, faithfulness,\\xa023\\xa0gentleness,\\xa0self-control;\\xa0against such things there is no law.\\xa024\\xa0And those who belong to Christ Jesus\\xa0have crucified the flesh with its\\xa0passions and desires. 25\\xa0If we live by the Spirit,\\xa0let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Galatians 5:16-25 (ESV)

As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not\\xa0to teach any different doctrine,\\xa04\\xa0nor\\xa0to devote themselves to myths and endless\\xa0genealogies, which promote\\xa0speculations rather than the stewardship\\xa0from God that is by faith.\\xa05\\xa0The aim of our charge is love\\xa0that issues from a pure heart and\\xa0a good conscience and\\xa0a sincere faith.\\xa06\\xa0Certain persons, by\\xa0swerving from these, have wandered away into\\xa0vain discussion,\\xa07\\xa0desiring to be teachers of the law,\\xa0without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions. 8\\xa0Now we know that\\xa0the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,\\xa09\\xa0understanding this, that the\\xa0law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,\\xa010\\xa0the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers,\\xa0liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to\\xa0sound\\xa0doctrine,\\xa011\\xa0in accordance with\\xa0the gospel of the glory of\\xa0the blessed God\\xa0with which I have been entrusted.12\\xa0I thank him\\xa0who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful,\\xa0appointing me to his service,\\xa013\\xa0though formerly I was a blasphemer,\\xa0persecutor, and insolent opponent. But\\xa0I received mercy\\xa0because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,\\xa014\\xa0and\\xa0the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the\\xa0faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.\\xa015\\xa0The saying is\\xa0trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus\\xa0came into the world to save sinners,\\xa0of whom I am the foremost.\\xa01 Timothy 1:3-15 (ESV)

He entered Jericho and was passing through.\\xa02\\xa0And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich.\\xa03\\xa0And\\xa0he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small in stature.\\xa04\\xa0So he ran on ahead and climbed up into\\xa0a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way.\\xa05\\xa0And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him,\\xa0\\u201cZacchaeus, hurry and come down, for\\xa0I must stay at your house today.\\u201d\\xa06\\xa0So he hurried and came down and\\xa0received him joyfully.\\xa07\\xa0And when they saw it, they all\\xa0grumbled, \\u201cHe has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.\\u201d\\xa08\\xa0And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, \\u201cBehold, Lord, the half of my goods\\xa0I give to the poor. And if I have\\xa0defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it\\xa0fourfold.\\u201d\\xa09\\xa0And Jesus said to him,\\xa0\\u201cToday salvation has come to this house, since\\xa0he also is a son of Abraham.\\xa010\\xa0For\\xa0the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.\\u201d Luke 19:1-10 (ESV)

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that\\xa0God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.\\xa06\\xa0If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and\\xa0do not practice the truth.\\xa07\\xa0But\\xa0if we walk in the light,\\xa0as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and\\xa0the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.\\xa08\\xa0If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and\\xa0the truth is not in us.\\xa09\\xa0If we confess our sins, he is\\xa0faithful and just to forgive us our sins and\\xa0to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.\\xa01 John 1:5-9 (ESV)

How do we walk in the light?

The aim of our charge is love\\xa0that issues from a pure heart and\\xa0a good conscience and\\xa0a sincere faith.\\xa01 Timothy 1:5 (ESV)

1. We walk in HUMILITY
2. We walk in REPENTANCE
3. We walk by FAITH