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Hello, my friends. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the wonderful
John, by the way, John. We're going to do it. We usually do it. Follow Him Favorites. We're
going to take on a single question from this week's lesson. We're in first, second, and third,
John this week, John. John frequently talks about abiding in the Lord. This is 1 John chapter 2 verse 6. He that saith, he abideth in him
should walk the way he walks. Verse 10, he that loveth his brother abideth in the light.
Abideth isn't a word we use much anymore, John. So what do you think of them when you hear
the word abid in the Lord? It's a great word. And I remember studying the Christmas
story in Luke years ago. there were in the same country
shepherds of biting in their field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
We've all heard that.
And I looked it up on dictionary.com.
It has such a great list to stay, to remain, to endure, to persist.
Be where you're supposed to be, doing what you're supposed to be doing what you're supposed to be doing kind of a word.
There's blessings from abiding.
In fact, in the Christmas story, the Weizmann had a hint of what was coming.
Joseph knew, Mary knew, obviously Jesus knew who didn't know the shepherds and how they
get to find out because they were abiding.
They were where they were supposed to be and the angels knew right where to find them.
But we want to be abiders and be where you're supposed to be doing what we're supposed to be doing angel's new right where to find them. But we want to be a biters and be where it's supposed to be
doing what's we're supposed to be doing.
I love that.
In Spanish, a bite, I believe, is Permanas said,
something like that. Permanas said,
but you can hear the word permanent in there, right?
Yeah. Permanas said, the idea of abiding in the Lord
should be that I'm here permanently.
I'm here forever. I am in both
feet are in. I'm all in when it comes to Jesus. I think the word abide implies that. You're not
just halfway in. You're just you're not here for a little while. You're here forever.
I'm here for the long haul. Boy, the way that to 1 John chapter 2 ends in verse 28 is so nice. And
now little children abide in him. That when he shall appear, we may have confidence and
not be ashamed before him at his coming. What a nice verse that is. I marked that one
when we went through it. Yeah. How often people are looking for confidence. I need a little self-confidence and
each self-esteem. I think that verse is great. Abide in him. We can have confidence.
When he comes, we can stand before him and we can be confident and not be ashamed before him.
Because we were where we were supposed to be doing it.
We're supposed to be doing it.
I hope we out there get to meet our fellow abiders all the time, right?
Yeah. This is first John chapter three. If we abide in him, when he shall appear,
we shall be like him. Isn't that fantastic? That's the promise.
Yep. We hope you'll join us on our full podcast. It's called Follow Him. You can get it wherever
you get your podcasts. We're actually with a couple this week, Dr. Justin Dyer and his wife,
Aslan Dyer, something we rarely do.
So come join us over on our full podcast and then join us right here next week
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