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Now, I had long forgotten
what a conjunction was.
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And so, as soon as I realized
it was a conjunction...
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I thumbed back through the dictionary
to the word "conjunction"...
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to see what a conjunction was,
and Webster's Dictionary said...
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that a conjunction
is an indeclinable word...
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that connects two thoughts together.
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And so I said, "What does this word
'indeclinable' mean?"
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And so I looked up
the word "indeclinable"...
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and found that it meant
that it was unchangeable.
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And so I found out
that "therefore" was a conjunction...
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that could not be changed
that connected two thoughts together.
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And so, therefore,
whenever I found this out...
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I looked at that word again in the
first verse of our Scripture, and I said:
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"Paul must have said something
that this word is connecting together. "
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So let's see what it was.
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And when I began to look back,
I found out...
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that Paul had used that word "therefore"...
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many times in Romans before this,
and many times in Romans after this.
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And so I really got interested,
so I looked in my concordance...
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and I found out
that Paul used the word "therefore"...
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over 119 times in his writing.
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And so, I think, well, if he used
the word "therefore" over 119 times...
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I need to find out
what the Greek says about it.
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So I looked up
what the Greek meaning was...
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and the Greek word was "on, "
which had a triple meaning.
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The first one was "accordingly"...
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the next one was "likewise then, "
and "then therefore. "
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Paul says,
"Therefore you receive the peace. "
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So if you're here this morning,
you're Christian...
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and you don't have that peace,
I'll tell you what's happened.
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You have taken back
over the controls of your life...