Passion for Praise: 'God's Guarantee Bring Us to Praise Him!'
Sunday, August 7, 2005
The Spirit is God's guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him.
— Ephesians 1:14
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