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<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Love can overcome all", sermon based on John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15, for Pentecost (B), May 20, 2018,</span></font><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> is the first one at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://sjnj.com/media_view.php">http://sjnj.com/media_view.php</a></span><br>
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<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">The Holy Spirit is a refining fire, testing what we do by God’s will and God’s ways, but allowing us to have free rule in our lives even to our own detriment. We can do miracles with the power of the Holy Spirit, but we can also do ourselves in if we are stubborn and refuse God’s guidance. With Jesus Christ’s physical presence now missing, we listen to his words of love and direction as given to us by God’s Holy Spirit.</span><br>
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