{"id":574,"date":"2022-12-08T23:15:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=574"},"modified":"2022-12-22T20:24:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T20:24:41","slug":"pauls-much-mores","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?portfolio=pauls-much-mores","title":{"rendered":"Paul&#8217;s Much Mores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-99ikz-07edefd2ae7144ff9494127352cfd6f3\">\n.avia-section.av-99ikz-07edefd2ae7144ff9494127352cfd6f3{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Biblestudy65-1500x430.png);\nbackground-position:0% 0%;\nbackground-attachment:scroll;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-99ikz-07edefd2ae7144ff9494127352cfd6f3 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll av-minimum-height av-minimum-height-25  container_wrap fullsize'  data-section-bg-repeat='no-repeat' data-av_minimum_height_pc='25'><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-574'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-laipobgc-bc89103e39bbdf93707a812be45c7ce7\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-laipobgc-bc89103e39bbdf93707a812be45c7ce7{\npadding-bottom:10px;\ncolor:#ffffff;\nfont-size:5vw;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-laipobgc-bc89103e39bbdf93707a812be45c7ce7 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-laipobgc-bc89103e39bbdf93707a812be45c7ce7 .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:5vw;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-laipobgc-bc89103e39bbdf93707a812be45c7ce7 .special-heading-inner-border{\nborder-color:#ffffff;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-laipobgc-bc89103e39bbdf93707a812be45c7ce7 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n\n@media only screen and (min-width: 480px) and (max-width: 767px){ \n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-laipobgc-bc89103e39bbdf93707a812be45c7ce7 .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:0.8em;\n}\n}\n\n@media only screen and (max-width: 479px){ \n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-laipobgc-bc89103e39bbdf93707a812be45c7ce7 .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:0.8em;\n}\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-laipobgc-bc89103e39bbdf93707a812be45c7ce7 av-special-heading-h1 custom-color-heading blockquote elegant-quote elegant-centered  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  av-inherit-size'><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  ><span class=\"heading-wrap\">Esther<\/span><\/h1><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-574'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-cwu8m-abcbcd04940856079fc75d3f19809087\">\n.flex_column.av-cwu8m-abcbcd04940856079fc75d3f19809087{\nwidth:49.75%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-cwu8m-abcbcd04940856079fc75d3f19809087 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '     ><div  class='togglecontainer av-laiq4we7-c2965fbaa7a4b22546cb9da2a265e508  avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  toggle_close_all' >\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-laiqj08d-c54ae597a1491d688bdd45767b62c9d4'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-1' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-1'>Paul\u2019s Much Mores Introduction Text Romans 5: 9,10,15,17,<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-1' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>I began to study today what I will entitle Paul&#8217;s much mores. Paul uses the term much more 18 times in his writing. Our text will be the basis of our next study, you can turn there and see the examples of Paul&#8217;s much mores.<\/p>\n<p>The use of the phrase 18 times is a very interesting number in Bible numerology. It is a number connected with the subject of bondage. In Genesis 12 the 18th time Abraham&#8217;s name is mentioned Sarah has been taken into bondage by Pharaoh. In Exodus we find the children of Israel in bondage to the Moabites, Amorites, and the Philistines for 18 years. In Luke 15 the 18th time Jesus&#8217;s name is mentioned a man is let down from the roof in bondage to a paralyzed body. In Luke 13 a woman had suffered great affliction and infirmities for 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>The number 18 is made up of two numbers. The number ten which is connected with fulliness, completeness, or wholeness. The number eight is connected with the subject of the new birth. There were eight people on the ark saved from the flood of God&#8217;s judgment. In John three the new birth chapter, birth is used eight times. If one is to be freed from the bondage of sin and depravity, they must be made whole by the new birth. It is a spiritual birth that originates and is only orchestrated by God alone.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase much more means abundant, plenteous, biggest, greatest, longest, and highest. It means better than all the rest. The new birth not only frees from bondage but gives to us so much more. Join us as we look in the coming weeks at Paul&#8217;s much more&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"itp-social-buttons-box\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-laiq4uoq-12c58507849805f668c35bf2da1ff08b'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-2' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-2'>Lesson One Text Romans 5:7-9<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-2' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>We began in our last lesson some introductory remarks on\u00a0the 18 times Paul uses the\u00a0phrase <strong><em>Much More<\/em><\/strong>. The number 18 we learned is connected to bondage.<\/p>\n<p>In our lesson this time we will begin to deal with the<strong><em> Power Of The Much Mores Over Bondage<\/em><\/strong>. In Romans 5:7-9 we find <strong><em>The Powerful Basis of Much More.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>The \u00a0love of Jesus is the door into the much mores of Paul. In Romans 5:8a Paul said, but God commended His love towards us and in verse\u00a09a \u00a0much more then. This great love that lets us into Paul&#8217;s much mores has a progressive truth taught\u00a0through out\u00a0the Scriptures. In John 3:16 we are told God so loved the world. I find in the Bible His love for the creation and His redemptive love or very different. In Ephesians 5:25 the\u00a0progression of His love becomes more pointed when Paul said, Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it. The most precise progression of His love is found in Galatians 2:20 when\u00a0Paul said, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. His love is personal,He died for me. I cannot comprehend His life for mine.<\/p>\n<p>This love Paul tells us God commendeth\u00a0 towards us. The ETH gives us the indication this is\u00a0an unending dam\u00a0break of love toward all, no, it is to the redeemed people alone. This <strong><em>Much More Love Is Unconditional<\/em><\/strong>. Oh love that we will not let me go I rest my weary soul in Thee. The redeemed find this love was extended to them while they were ungodly sinners. Our Lord did not just say in word I\u00a0love you but in action He died for me. This much more love Paul said\u00a0is<strong><em> Unlimited<\/em> <\/strong>Jeremiah said, yea I love thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.\u00a0There has never been a time\u00a0sinner or saint\u00a0when He has\u00a0loved me more or less.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful bases of Paul&#8217;s much more love is <strong><em>Unexplainable<\/em><\/strong>. Frederick Lehman wrote the song\u00a0<strong><em>The Love of God.<\/em><\/strong> Songs of his day always had\u00a0three \u00a0versus and a chorus. He could only come up with two versus. The third verse was found scribble on the\u00a0back wall of the patient in an insane asylum after he died the words fit perfect with Fredericks song. The verse said, could we with ink the ocean\u00a0fill and\u00a0were the sky of parchment made; where every stalk \u00a0on earth\u00a0a quil \u00a0and every man\u00a0a scribe by trade, to write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry; nor could the scroll contain the whole\u00a0though stretch from sky to sky.\u00a0O love of God\u00a0how rich and pure\u00a0how measureless and strong, it shall for evermore\u00a0endure the saints and angels song<\/p>\n<p>His love is so much more and\u00a0delivers sin\u00a0sick souls from bondage. This patient was locked up in the bondage of an insane asylum but the words seemed to tell us he had entered into the much more of God&#8217;s\u00a0freedom.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-laiq8ylx-69474ea5514e5f1721c521c40ccf75b3'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-3' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-3'>Lesson Two Romans 5:9-10<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-3' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>In this lesson today we are told of the first of\u00a0Paul&#8217;s\u00a0eighteen mentions\u00a0of<strong><em> the much more&#8217;s<\/em><\/strong>. Let us look at <strong><em>the powerful\u00a0bestowement<\/em> <\/strong>of the much more&#8217;s. In Romans 5:9 we are confronted with the much more of justification. The word justified is in the past tense which indicates a past action being done that guarantees a future result. Paul tells us when the past action was done in the phrase <strong><em>by His blood<\/em><\/strong>. When Christ died on the cross, His work there didn&#8217;t make possible my justification but guarantee it. This for me gives a whole new meaning to an old preacher who was asked when he got saved, he said, I got saved on Friday afternoon about 3 o&#8217;clock 2000 years ago, when Christ said from the cross it is\u00a0finished I was\u00a0as much justified then as I am now. Our God leaves nothing to luck and chance or man&#8217;s foolish ups and\u00a0downd but He guarantees all that He does.<\/p>\n<p>The word justified means to render or declare innocent of all charges, to absolute or placed in a position where all sins past, present, and future were never done. The word means to declare holy, righteous, and to be put in a place where God sees us as His Son. The word justified also has the idea to place a value upon the object bought\u00a0 equal to the price that has been\u00a0paid, with a pledge to keep what has been clearly bought at such an unbelievable expense. The biggest thought here was <strong><em>&#8220;by His blood&#8221;,<\/em><\/strong>there is no blood like this. This is not the blood of bulls or goats\u00a0but \u00a0the blood of the Lamb of God. This is the\u00a0Lamb\u00a0who was God and God who was the Lamb. His precious blood guarantees my justification.<\/p>\n<p>I love what the songwriter said, what can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus; what can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Nothing can for sin atone, nothing but the blood of Jesus;\u00a0naught of \u00a0good that I have done, nothing but the blood of Jesus. This is all my hope and peace nothing but the blood of Jesus; this is all my righteousness nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh! Precious is the flow that makes me white as snow no other fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"itp-social-buttons-box\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-laiqfv2b-dbac4f97898a8ec729247184e60ffeb2'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-4' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-4'>Lesson Three Text Romans 5:10<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-4' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>In this lesson we will continue to study the 18 times\u00a0Paul\u00a0mentions\u00a0in his\u00a0\u00a0writings the phrase \u00a0<strong><em>much more.<\/em><\/strong>The number 18 is a number that is often connected with\u00a0bondage in the Bible.\u00a0In our last lesson we began to look at <strong><em>the powerfull\u00a0bestonement of the much more of justification<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In our lesson today we\u00a0find <strong><em>the\u00a0much more of reconciliation<\/em> <\/strong>in Romans 5:10. My state prior to reconciliation was that I was an enemy of God. The word enemy means to be a hateful,hostile,\u00a0and at odds with God. We are told in our text that by\u00a0the death of God&#8217;s Son we are reconciled to God. The word reconcile means a radical change whereby one who was once\u00a0an enemy\u00a0is now made a\u00a0friend \u00a0yes even a best friend.\u00a0I can only say to this truth, WOW! Paul tells us of the much more of this reconciliation in Romans\u00a05:10 that by it\u00a0we are saved.\u00a0The word saved\u00a0means to be protected by a hedge\u00a0completely around the object to be saved. This saving Paul tells us in verse\u00a010 was orchestrated by His life. The word life means His\u00a0breath or Spirit\u00a0which is\u00a0the endless\u00a0life of God placed in us by the new birth.<\/p>\n<p>Oh the much more of reconciliation, not only made me\u00a0 best friends\u00a0with our Lord, it placed a\u00a0continual hedge of\u00a0protection around me, and\u00a0set me free from the\u00a0bondage of\u00a0all my sins. Just\u00a0think for a moment\u00a0even with all Paul has told us about reconciliation there is even more that heaven will reveal to us about the subect yea even much more.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-lbbchaqk-9bdb5afae6efe4c9f580bddc614bf2b4'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-5' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-5'>Lesson Four Text Romans 5: 15 And 17<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-5' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Let us in\u00a0this study\u00a0continue looking at the\u00a018 times Paul\u00a0mentioned the phrase <strong><em>much more<\/em><\/strong>. The number 18 is connected with bondage in the Bible. In these much more\u00a0phrases Paul tells us of the liberty\u00a0Christ has provided\u00a0from the bondage of sin.<\/p>\n<p>We have been studying\u00a0<strong><em>the\u00a0power of the\u00a0much mores<\/em> <\/strong>over\u00a0bondage. In our study thus far we have looked at the\u00a0<strong><em>Powerful basis, Powerful bestoment, and in this study the\u00a0Powerful beauty<\/em> <\/strong>of the \u00a0much mores. Our text of Romans 5:15 and 17 tells us\u00a0before we can see the\u00a0powerful\u00a0beauty we\u00a0must see the bitter grave. The first Adam of the\u00a0garden of Eden\u00a0by his offenses gave us death both spiritual and physical. The first Adam only provide for us the world, flesh, and the devil plus death and much more death. His offense made\u00a0the choice\u00a0for us all to reject God and plunged the whole human race into the bondage of sin with no way out. I recently heard a preacher telling his young people in a message that\u00a0sin was just human, normal, and a natural occurrence. I thought to myself the\u00a0first Adam didn&#8217;t plunge us into the normal world but\u00a0plunged us into a depraved, dead, dark, damed, and with no way out world unless God in His\u00a0grace comes and brings us out.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0verse 17 of Romans\u00a05 I see the <strong><em>Beautiful grace<\/em> <\/strong>of much more. The first Adam made us slaves to sin but the second Adam gives grace to those that believe. It is much more abundant grace. The word abundant\u00a0 means supersized, excessive, more than is needed, and exceedingly much more. The first Adam ceated a problem no man could solve the\u00a0second Adam Jesus created a solution no man could enter into on his on. He must be birthed into the solution from above called the new birth. Man can believe in the tooth fairy, Easter bunny, and Santa Claus but cannot believe in Jesus unless God\u00a0gives him\u00a0the gift of faith. Ephesians 2:8-9 tells us\u00a0faith \u00a0is a gift of God not of\u00a0man. He is not born with the believing gene.<\/p>\n<p>Paul tells us in verse 17 this much more gift of grace\u00a0will cause\u00a0us\u00a0to reign\u00a0in the riches of Christ righteousness. In second Corinthians 8:9\u00a0Paul defined grace when he said, for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye thru\u00a0His poverty might be made rich. How rich was Christ? They pave the streets with gold in His hometown. He\u00a0sits on a throne\u00a0on a\u00a0glasses sea encompass about with a 360\u00b0 rainbow. The walls are made of priceless jewels. The gates or 18 foot tall pearls, would love to see the shell they came out of.<\/p>\n<p>How poor did He become? He had to borrow\u00a0a stable and\u00a0feeding\u00a0trough\u00a0to be born in. He had no where to lay His head. He had no money to pay taxes, had to get it out of the fish&#8217;s mouth. Had to borrow donkey to ride into town to die for me. When He died He had to borrow\u00a0a tomb to be\u00a0buried in. He did all that for me to be rich and reign in\u00a0righteousness in this life as well as the one to come. All of this accomplished on an old rugged cross stained with blood so divine in\u00a0which a real beauty I see.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-lbfpk8um-5f3906a9386a6048d8523243dde30da9'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-6' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-6'> Lesson Five Romans 5:20<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-6' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Let us continue in our study these days of\u00a0the 18 times Paul uses the phrase much more. The number 18 is connected with bondage to sin \u00a0in the Bible. Paul shares the\u00a0much more phrases to show us the route\u00a0to\u00a0 freedom from the bondage of sin. We have been looking at\u00a0the power of the\u00a0much mores. So far we have looked at the powerful basis, bestowement, and beauty. This study we will look in Romans 5:20 at the <strong><em>powerful bounty<\/em> <\/strong>of the\u00a0much mores over sin.<\/p>\n<p>In our text we find when the law is the centerpiece and\u00a0all the preaching\u00a0 is upon the law sin abounds. When\u00a0sin is recognized as a missing of\u00a0God&#8217;s mark so as not to share in the prize of Christ Himself Grace does much more abound. Let us mention some examples of this bounty.\u00a0In Luke 7\u00a0we&#8217;re told of a woman with the alabaster box who\u00a0anointed our Lords head and feet. Our Lord said that her\u00a0sins which were many or all forgiven because of that she loved much.\u00a0Oh to the one who has experience the\u00a0much mores of\u00a0grace being free from the bondage of\u00a0sin cannot help but love our Lord much.<\/p>\n<p>Let us look at another <strong><em>example of the\u00a0bounty<\/em> <\/strong>of grace in\u00a0man by the name of John Newton\u00a0who was a\u00a0vulgra slave trader and\u00a0became a slave on his own ship. He was gloriously saved by the grace of God\u00a0and wrote\u00a0the words of a great hymn. Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me I once was\u00a0lost but now\u00a0I am found\u00a0I was\u00a0blind but now I see. Oh how this abounding grace reaches the lowest of\u00a0hell bound sinners.<\/p>\n<p>Another example would be John Bunyan who was a Tinker by trade. He spent most of his life in\u00a0prison for\u00a0preaching the gospel of grace.\u00a0While in prison he wrote the great classic Pilgrims progress and also the story of his life\u00a0entiled Abounding\u00a0Grace. Thank God for the much mores of abounding grace that\u00a0reached down to old sinners like myself and\u00a0set my feet upon the solid rock of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Let us close with the <strong><em>extent of this bounty<\/em><\/strong>. A dear man by the name of Sam Duncan like to collect pictures, paste poems\u00a0or statements below the pictures and mail them to friends for encouragement. He\u00a0once sent a poem\u00a0to a friend which said,\u00a0have you in the Lord believe, still there&#8217;s more to follow, of His grace have you received? Stilll there&#8217;s more to follow. Oh, the grace the Father shows, still there&#8217;s more to follow; freely He His grace bestowes. Still there&#8217;s more to follow. More and more and more and more and always more to follow.\u00a0Oh His matchless boundless love and grace, still there&#8217;s more to follow. Attached to the poem was a picture of Niagara Falls with a\u00a0caption under the picture which read,still more\u00a0to follow. His grace for redeemed\u00a0sinners is\u00a0surely endless in\u00a0freeing us from the bondage of sin.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-bsium-6640cf25ef5d7d7f0ba9c40d1adbdf37\">\n.flex_column.av-bsium-6640cf25ef5d7d7f0ba9c40d1adbdf37{\nwidth:49.75%;\nmargin-left:0.5%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-bsium-6640cf25ef5d7d7f0ba9c40d1adbdf37 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_masonry_entries  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div '     ><div id='av-masonry-1' class='av-masonry av-lbbd6l4t-3a5318eed72b5379ae440456ef7feed7 noHover av-fixed-size av-1px-gap av-hover-overlay-active av-masonry-animation-active av-masonry-col-2 av-caption-always av-caption-style-overlay av-masonry-entries '><div class=\"av-masonry-container isotope av-js-disabled\"><div class='av-masonry-entry isotope-item av-masonry-item-no-image all_sort bible-studies_sort 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