189: Russell Todd – Exhortation: Heirs Together

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Welcome to Goodra selfie and
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I’m Levi.
And I’m Chris, and I’m Brian.

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Hello and welcome back to

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another talk for this week.
We’re listening to an excitation

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that was given by Brother
Russell, Todd back in May of

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2020, and The excitation that
he’s focusing on is taking a

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look at First Peter chapter 3.
So if you would like to read

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through that before listening to
that, I wanted to make sure to

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mention the chapter, that he
will be focusing on and the

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subject and the title of his
exhortation is heirs together.

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And he’s looking at the story of
Peter, and this was a

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recommendation that somebody
sent in shortly after hearing

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brother Russell.
Give this excitation.

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So sorry, it’s taking a little
bit to get the excitation under

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the podcast, but when I listen
to it I really enjoyed it

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Peters.
Always a really fascinating

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story to study to get to learn
more about and without spoiling

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it because brother Russell kind
of reveals it during his

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excitation.
It’s a very different look at

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Peter and at his character.
And then the way that brother

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Russell ties it into Christ and
our walk at the end was really,

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really great.
So I really enjoyed this

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excitation.
I thought it was a again, just

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added more dimensions.
And detail to the life of Peter

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which is always a fun character
to look at.

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So I was really grateful and
appreciative of the

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recommendation as always, we
appreciate those.

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I know we’ve been mentioned at
the last couple weeks but it’s

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true.
We kind of live and breathe on

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these recommendations.
So anything and everything you

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send through is greatly
appreciated, we love sharing

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them with with everybody else.
So with that I will turn it over

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to brother Russell Todd who is
from the south Barry Ecclesia

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for his excitation heirs
together.

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Good morning everyone, wherever
you are doing good.

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In adversity, is what we read in
that chapter.

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We read from first Peter 3.
And We Gather in this unusual

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way to remember Christ who is
the ultimate example of doing

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good and adversity.
As we read in verse 18 Christ,

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also suffered once for sins, the
Just for the unrighteous that he

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might bring us to God.
For excellent today.

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As we think about is together.
I’d like to try and do a gentle

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excitation today, so on the
Mount Sinai, Elijah scale, it’s

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more still Small Voice than
earthquake wind or fire.

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It’s not polite to shout at
people in their own living

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rooms, I don’t want to upset
your Cups of Tea.

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So it’s still small voice.
Today, I want to take you on a

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journey through scripture and I
apologize in advance if I don’t

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turn up every reference because
it’s the gist of it that we want

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to get across to you.
Because this is a time at the

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moment for us to be gentle with
each other, the current

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situation is affecting us all in
different ways. and it’s

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bringing to each of us,
different stresses As it grinds

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on.
We don’t know whether we’re 90%

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of the way through the
disruption to our lives or

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whether we’re just ten percent
of the way through and we each

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face different anxieties and
fears about what that means for

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us.
Make station today in a phrase

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is to think of others.
To be gentle and kind.

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I hope this excitation can spark
in your place, some conversation

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and some small acts of kindness.
Wherever it is that you are And

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so let’s begin is together.
We’ve read from First Peter

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chapter 3 and we stopped for a
moment to think about the hand,

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that holds the pen.
That writes these words, the

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real person behind the text And
when we think about Peter, he’s

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obviously one of those New
Testament characters that were

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intended to learn from.
When we think about the source

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material for a study of the life
of Peter, he’s there through the

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gospels, he’s he’s there in the
stories of the acts.

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He writes Epistles, We see him
in all the phases of his life.

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Firstly as a disciple coming to
a point of belief, Becoming an

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apostle.
Writing as an elder.

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So we’re obviously intended by
scripture to to learn from his

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life.
And he is for us, one of the

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best examples of the journey.
That is that, that the people of

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God are not Stamped Out by by by
a machine press, but they are

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crafted over time and Peter
gives us a good example of that.

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And as will come to say, he
remains aware of the

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shortcomings right through to
the end of his life.

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He is in many ways.
The first of the disciples he’s

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first in each of the lists of
the 12.

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He’s always first to step
forward and he’s always first to

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fail.
He’s a great example for us of

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the phrase that comes from
Christ, out of the Garden of

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Gethsemane that the spirit is
willing, but the flesh is weak.

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and Peter is at once, both the
best of us and the worst of us

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we see in him loyalty and we
hear denial, we hear from him,

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clear, understanding of
principle and then we see

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weakness in application and I
like to just take two quick

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examples of that.
So first on, on the Betrayal

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night, he was ready to die and
he said so he left forward to an

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armed mob, with his pocket knife
in the dark.

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But then he gets disarmed by the
comments of the maid.

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And he needs to be brought to
his senses by the counsel of a

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chuck.
A second example, in terms of

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the coming of the Gentiles to
the gospel, he’s convinced by a

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vision of the need for the
gospel for the Gentiles to

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receive it.
He Witnesses the outpouring of

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the spirit on the Gentiles.
He commands that they are

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baptized But then as we read in
Galatians 2, he swayed by peer

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pressure of those from Jerusalem
and chooses, not to eat with

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them.
And so we see in those two

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examples, perhaps strengths and
weaknesses, all mixed together

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in the life of Peter.
His experiences are unique, know

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how many of us.
None of us can say I was there

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in Gethsemane and saw the
sufferings of Christ.

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I was there on the Mount of
transfiguration and saw the

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glory of Christ as he writes in
second Peter.

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He still remembers that moment.
I was there with him and get

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cemani.
I was there with him on the

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Mount of transfiguration and I
was rescued from prison By

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Angels what an incredible
spiritual CV.

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Peter hands.
And yet.

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As always the mix of strength
and weakness.

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And we could imagine the
interview with Peter.

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So Peter you were with Christ
and get cemani.

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How was it?
Well actually.

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I kept going to sleep.
Mark 14 verses 39 and 40 Their

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Eyes Were heavy.
He came and found them sleeping.

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Their eyes were very heavy.
They didn’t know what to answer

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him.
So what were you like in

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Gethsemane?
With Christ?

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Can’t remember a lot actually.
But you were with him on the

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Mount of transfiguration that
must have been an incredible

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thing.
What do you remember of it?

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Luke 9 verse 32.
Now, Peter and those who were

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with him were heavy with sleep.
and Peter said, things not

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knowing what he said, it says,
and Peter was rescued from

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prison by an Angel and just kept
just come for a second and just

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just see this one in Acts
chapter 12, It was Peters part

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of this thing.
Verse 7 of Acts 12 the angel of

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the Lord stood next to him, a
light Shone in the cell, he

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struck Peter on the side and
woke him up saying get up

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quickly.
The chains fell off his hands.

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Verse 8, the angel said to him,
dress yourself, put on your

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sandals and he did so.
And he said to him wrap, your

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cloak around you and follow me.
And he went out and followed

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him.
He did not know what was being

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done by the angel was real.
And inverse.

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Some Verse 11.
And when Peter came to himself,

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he said This reads to me very
much, like, trying to get the

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kids ready for school.
In the morning, every step needs

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to be described, put your
clothes on sandals, both sides.

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No, that’s he left, not you’re
right.

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Put your jacket on.
Come on now.

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You really didn’t know what was
going on.

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So I say this.
Just to give us an idea.

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You can take.
Yes, I’m Peter.

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I was in Gethsemane.
I was on the Mount of

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transfiguration.
I was rescued by angels and I

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slept through every experience.
There’s no one with their

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faults.
So more written down in

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scripture for us all to see.
Here is the person that walked

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on water to Jesus and sank.
So what of his experiences?

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How was following Christ to
change his life?

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Come back to Mark chapter 1. and
here we have the sort of the

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beginning, the beginning of the
Gospel from from Mark’s point of

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view, And here we enter.
This is day one when Christ came

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to Peter’s house.
And it says, in Mark chapter 1

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verse 29 immediately left the
synagogue and entered the house

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of Simon and Andrew with James
and John.

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Now, Simon’s wife’s mother lay
ill with a fever and immediately

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they told him about her.
He came and took her by the

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hand, and lifted her up, the
fever left her and she began to

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serve them.
And at evening, as the sunset,

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they brought to him all who were
sick or oppressed by demons and

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the whole city was gathered
together at the door and he

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healed many.
That first moment when the

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restrictions of the law were
lifted from the Sabbath and

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people in need came together at
the door of his house. for once

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his house was the central place
in that City where everyone

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gathered But not only the one
inside the house, but also those

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outside, we’re seeking Christ
and it must have left an

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indelible mark on their family.
The day when Christ came to

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their place, We think about the
experiences he had in the

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ministry of Christ.
Turn next to Mark, Matthew

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chapter 10 because this sets the
pattern for what was to be the

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rest of Peters life.
In Matthew chapter 10, the

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disciples are sent out.
To preach in various places.

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So from verse verse 16, well
actually earlier on from verse

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5, Jesus sends out the the 12
And he said so go out don’t

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don’t carry too much with you.
Go and preach the gospel verse

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11, whatever town, or Village
you enter find out who is worthy

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in it and stay there until your
depart Inside.

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They were to travel and to to be
provided for, by, by other

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families.
They were to expect, persecution

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verses, 16, 17. 18 was to be
what they were to expect. and in

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verse 23, when they persecute
you in one town, flee to the

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next for truly, I say to you,
you will not have gone through

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all the towns of Israel before
the son of man comes.

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So he was to be the changed life
for Peter.

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It was to be spent living in
other people’s houses.

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In other places.
It was to expect persecution and

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to have to flee.
And this was to be the rest of

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his life.
And so it was with Peter not

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just during these moments in the
ministry of Christ.

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But this is what we see works
out in the book of Acts.

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So in the book of Acts we find
him in Jerusalem at the start

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and in in 8:1 the apostles are
still in Jerusalem.

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Chapter 8, verses 14 and 25.
He goes down to Samaria and

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verse 25.
When they had testified and

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spoken, the word of the Lord,
they returned to Jerusalem,

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preaching, the gospel to many
villages of the Samaritans.

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And then we find him here and
there amongst the disciples

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chapter 9, verses, 31 and 32.
The Ecclesia through all Judea

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and Galilee and Samaria was
there.

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And it says there in verse 32 as
Peter went here and there among

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them all So he stayed on the
move, he came down, also to the

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saints that dwelt at litter.
So he’s now at litter, and then

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from there at the end of that
chapter, to Joppa to heal

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Dorcas, and then from Joppa the
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Cornelius.
And then from caesarea back to

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Jerusalem to answer the Jews
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thing that he done.
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Jerusalem, but then once rescued
from prison, it says, he, then

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he went into hiding, it says in
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sort of way after they had in in
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He says, then he departed and
went to another place.

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He was their closure under
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moved somewhere else.
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But all the way through
Galatians, Chapter 2 mentions

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that Peter had been to Antioch
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And then, back in Jerusalem
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And then by the time, he writes
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Babylon, or maybe Rome as
Babylon as he describes in First

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Peter chapter 5.
But either way, he’s a long way

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away from home. what I’m trying
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you know, we know about the
journeys of Paul and we met them

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all out and and that’s And
that’s good but they were just

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as many Journeys though shorter
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Peter, it’s summed up perhaps
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That says, when we saw that the
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committed to Paul as the gospel
to the circumsized was committed

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to Peter. and so, Peter spent
the rest of his life no longer

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the fishermen, but the traveler
Working with the flock wherever

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they were.
And what a story could be told,

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though, not described in detail
in scripture of those events.

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What what events lie Behind
these records?

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But I want to turn our attention
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To someone who could have
Chronicle these stories better

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than anyone else.
Someone who knew firsthand the

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joys and the struggles and the
hardships of this new life that

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Peter now lived.
Someone who experienced and

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lived and dwelt on and felt and
cared about all these things.

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More than others.
Someone whose Diaries would make

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fascinating reading, someone
present throughout and yet

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almost totally absent from the
record.

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What is the think about mrs.
Barr Jonas.

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That is Peter’s wife.
We could be forgiven for not

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thinking about her at all.
Because apart from a couple of

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oblique references, she’s almost
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And yet what I hope to do.
Is to reconstruct what we can of

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her life with lessons, for
brothers, four sisters, and for

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all of us, there’s not much in
Scripture that specifically

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relates to Peter’s wife.
It’s only the faintest

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watermark.
If we look carefully, so here we

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go.
In Mark, chapter 1, the verses

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that we read The healing was of
Peters wife’s mother.

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If he had a mother-in-law, he
had a wife, this is what I mean

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by oblique.
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We’re told that there were
certain women From Galilee who

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traveled with the disciples,
Luke 8 verse 2 They are the

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women.
Luke 23 verse 49.

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Who are there at the cross.
And they are mentioned again in

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Acts chapter 1 verses 13 and 14
in the upper room.

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It says the disciples were there
with the women.

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And we know that in that group
was James and John’s mother

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Jesus mother, there were others
as well.

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But you can see the family group
nature of this thing that they

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didn’t all leave family at home.
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I don’t know if that’s been part
of your imagery of Jesus and the

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disciples in the gospels, but it
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One other verse talks about
Peter’s wife, First Corinthians

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chapter 9 and verse 5 is the
verse.

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And again, it’s a very oblique
reference.

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But it is perhaps a little key
just to help us get going.

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So in First Corinthians chapter
9, Paul is talking about why he

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hasn’t asked for support from
the Corinthian Ecclesia because

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I haven’t asked for it but I do
have the right to ask for

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support.
And in.

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From verse 3.
Perhaps were raid.

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This is my defense to those who
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First Corinthians 9.
Do we not have the right to eat

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and drink?
Do we not have the right to lead

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about a sister?
A wife as the other Apostles and

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the Brethren of the Lord?
And cephas.

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Or is it any pain medicine?
I who have?

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No right to refrain from working
for a living.

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So he says, I could be asking
for support from you and I would

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be completely within my rights
to do.

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So, It would not be wrong.
For me to lead about a sister, a

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wife, as the other Apostles as
the Brethren of the Lord, and as

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Peter.
So she’s there, isn’t she?

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Just in the text.
And she was being led about by

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Peter, so she’s there.
She’s in the scenes of all that

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happened to Peter.
Probably throw most of the

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ministry of Christ.
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of Acts.
They were on the road together.

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And they were being supported by
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So we’ve talked about the
experience of Peter when Christ

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came into his life.
Let’s now compare the experience

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of Peter’s wife before and after
the gospel.

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Peter’s wife, the old life.
She might have expected to live

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an unremarkable life as the wife
of a lake Galilee fishermen.

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When she married Peter, there
would have been a very certain

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inevitability of what life would
mean to her the house, the lake,

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the marketplace.
She will be sure that the rest

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of her life would smell of fish.
She would expect that the things

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of life that she would not enjoy
would be his moods when the

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catch was poor. perhaps having
to do things quietly around the

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house as her night shift,
husband slept, She would imagine

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her the greatest fears would be
when the weather had blown in

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and she knew that the men were
still out on the water.

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When the gospel came to her
door, she was sharing their

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house with Andrew her husband’s
brother and her mother, maybe

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others as well.
She might never have had an

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expectation that they would have
a house all to themselves.

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No, real Prospect of moving up
in society.

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Her aspirations then would would
hinge on just Gathering a good

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reputation, amongst the
immediate circle of the

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townspeople and perhaps over
time the gradual accumulation of

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a few objects of comfort and
finery.

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That’s about all that Ordinary
People in poor circumstances.

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Can realistically aspire to
Local reputation little bit of

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comfort few bits of fancy stuff
to put on for the the times of

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feast and celebration.
But what about her new life?

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The life on the road, the life
dependent on the generosity of

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others.
She now faced many different

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dangers and aspects to her life.
As she was led about by Peter

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through all these different
places.

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When they persecute you in one
city, flee to another was to be

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her experience now too.
Shaking the dust off their feet

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of places that rejected them.
Being dependent on others to

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provide for their needs.
It’s a true thing that when

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other people support you, you
don’t tend to spend money on

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yourself.
I remember a few times in

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Mission travels, people would
come to you before you left and

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hand, you some money and say and
this is something I want you to

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spend on yourself while you’re
over there.

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And it’s almost like the water
from the well at Bethlehem ER,

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became the hardest bit of money
to spend on things, just for

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myself and sometimes you come
home after a few months and and

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and that note would still be in
your wallet and something.

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When other people support you
you can’t spend stuff on

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yourself.
It’s really hard, especially not

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the extras.
It’s what I mean.

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And when you’re living on the
move because it says go from one

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city to the next.
You don’t carry valuables with

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you if we think of Paul’s
recollection of travel. in 2nd

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Corinthians chapter 11, The
Perils in the country, The

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Perils of robbers, the pair of
perils of false brethren The

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weather and the cold.
And when you’re carrying

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everything you have with you,
you carry as little as possible

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people pack differently when
they have to carry their own

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suitcase.
There would, there would have

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been much, not naturally
desirable and plenty dangerous

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in this new life being led about
by her husband.

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And we can perhaps see her in
mind at the end of a long

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journey, Road Dusty and tired.
Trying to pull her hair back

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into shape as she arrives at the
doorstep of some other new

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strangers house.
Has she ever wished to be just

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back in her ordinary old life.
Despite what they would the the

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grand task with which they are
involved.

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There must have been times where
she wept for the sheer

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uncertainty of this new life
that she had.

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And yet, while it was great
uncertainty of circumstance,

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sewers resoluteness of purpose.
There was her willingness to be

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led about in this strange
Journey.

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And there was with her quiet
resolve.

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Despite the disadvantage and the
danger.

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And so here we have two people
Peter and his experience and

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alongside him in the story
though, not in the story.

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Mrs. Pita Together with him.
And so we come to First Peter

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Chapter 3, The the chapter that
we read.

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And I want us now to translate
that experience of life.

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Into the words that Peter now
rights.

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They say first Peter.
Was written middle of the 60s

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ad.
So we realized that the man with

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the pen and his hand is now old,
he writes conscious that his own

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death is now not far away.
And in chapter three he’s about

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to write what he is known.
What he has learned what he

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advises.
About husbands and wives.

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What experience would guide him
as he writes these sings about

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his own experience.
Let’s turn first to what he says

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to her husband’s verse 7.
After all that time together.

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What does he say?
He’s learnt verse.

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Seven, husbands, live with your
wives in an understanding way.

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He’s the one thing I want you to
think about.

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Be understanding.
I want you to show honor.

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To them.
And there are two aspects of

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that honor aren’t there as we
look in the verse.

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Giving honor unto the wife, as
unto the weaker vessel. and as

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being heirs together of the
grace of life, give honor to her

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in her differences to you.
The weaker vessel bit.

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Give honor to her in the unity,
you have.

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As heirs together in the grace
of life.

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Only your differences.
Honor your sameness.

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Why verse in the verse 7 that
your prayers be not hindered.

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It’s for your own good to do
this for your wife or your own

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spiritual well-being.
Honor her Peter would have had a

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great chance to have experienced
any weaker, vessel nurse of his

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wife, in The Crazy Life, that
they LED walking from City to

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City persecuted and they would
have been times.

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That would have been quite
tough.

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If Peter was the mug, his wife
was the finer China.

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The one more refined, the one
you had to handle a little bit

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more carefully.
And yet still heirs together of

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the grace of Life, they had
together, one calling one gift,

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one hope.
His life was on show through

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scripture.
Her life is tucked away in

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behind the scenes and yet, they
equals together.

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In The Gift of Life.
Now, of course respecting

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difference and respecting
Oneness is not just for husbands

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and wives.
As at First Sight, be all of you

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of one mind.
Having compassion, one of

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another love as Brethren be
pitiful, be courteous. we tend

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to the beginning of the chapter,
This is dangerous territory.

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Isn’t it for any husband?
Peter is about to write his

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advice for whiteness.
And he does very well because

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the first thing he talks about
is how to work with an imperfect

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husband, that was a good move.
Likewise wives be subject to

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your own husbands.
So that even if some do not obey

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the word, they may be won
without a word by the conduct of

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their wives when they see you’re
respectful and pure conduct

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Husbands can be won, over to
write ways without a word.

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He says.
This is the ultimate of the

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still small voice, isn’t it?
It learnt from his experience

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with his wife that they were
times when not a word was

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spoken, but the right thing was
done by her, And that won the

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battle notice.
He doesn’t say will be won by

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the look or by the strike.
Oh, by the harsh words that

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remind a man of his own
failings.

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But one.
When he sees your conduct.

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And we think how many times on
how many Adventures of Peter and

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his wife.
Was not a word said and yet a

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battle was won.
Piss three.

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Don’t let your adorning be
external.

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The braiding of hair and the
putting on of gold jewelry or

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clothing your wear, but let your
adorning be the hidden person of

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the heart.
With the imperishable beauty of

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a gentle and quiet Spirit which
is in God’s sight.

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Very precious. these are
incredible words from a

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fisherman, and I And yet what
I’ve is lived experience with

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his wife.
He’d saying that the life that

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they lived it meant that there
wasn’t time for the beauty salon

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and the elaborate hairstyles
that others had time for.

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He saw that.
I had forgotten the opportunity

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of that little bit of jewelry.
Bit of bling that you can have

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when you live at home, but is
too dangerous to carry on your

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back.
He’d known the two or three

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outfits that she carried with
her over a long period of time

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as they lived in other people’s
places and needed to be packed

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in a hurry and ready on to the
next place as persecution hit.

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It seemed that she had foregone
that.

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And he saw in her instead.
The beauty of that hidden person

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of the heart.
This is the imperishable beauty

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of a gentle and quiet Spirit.
Not one that’s pushed over, by

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any means.
But her quiet determination to

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do what was right.
Despite forgoing the things that

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she would have, otherwise maybe
have preferred what an

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incredible tribute when we think
about it in terms of his

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experience with his wife, And
yet we’re going to put her back

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in the picture.
As we’ve done through this.

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Where is she?
As he writes this Is she sitting

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next to him at the table?
Does she Smile as he writes

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these words?
But given the time frame.

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Is he writing this at a table
alone?

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Is this a description of her?
In her presence.

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Or is this perhaps one of the
most beautiful eppie tasks that

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we have in Scripture?
Are these the words that he

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managed to get round to saying
to her?

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Or these the words that he
wished he had.

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Taken the chance to tell her
while he could.

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We don’t know.
We know from these words that he

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had seen, and he had appreciated
deeply, what she gave up for

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this new life.
And we don’t know whether he

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told her while he could. but
this is what at least he would

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have wanted to say, You weren’t
flashy to others.

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Didn’t have the things that
others did to make themselves

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00:42:32,200 –> 00:42:38,900
look good.
But you You were gold and

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00:42:38,900 –> 00:42:46,100
diamonds to me.
And in God’s sight.

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And that beauty doesn’t
disappear.

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It lasts forever.
She may have been quiet but she

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00:42:57,800 –> 00:43:01,700
was not determined.
She was not a pushover verse 6.

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Says, you are Sarah’s daughters.
If you do good and you do not

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00:43:11,800 –> 00:43:14,900
fear anything that is
frightening, what an unusual

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00:43:14,900 –> 00:43:23,900
phrase that is.
But I think it suggests that she

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had the fears.
She saw the dangers.

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00:43:29,600 –> 00:43:34,300
And that quiet, Spirit was a
quietly determined Spirit to

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00:43:34,300 –> 00:43:39,100
push on and to continue to do
good, despite the risks and the

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00:43:39,108 –> 00:43:53,900
dangers.
3:1 starts with likewise

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00:43:55,100 –> 00:44:03,000
likewise, you wipes and the
likewise probably relates back

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to the previous section about
servants and Masters.

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And about how servants should
continue to do good, amidst

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00:44:12,900 –> 00:44:20,500
adversity.
And the example, there is of

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Christ.
First 21 Christ also suffered

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00:44:25,300 –> 00:44:29,000
for you leaving.
You an example that you might

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00:44:29,000 –> 00:44:34,000
follow in his steps.
And that despite great adversity

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Christ continued with that same.
Fierce and quietly determined

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00:44:41,000 –> 00:44:44,300
Spirit to do.
What was right.

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And that is our calling to be
late about to follow his steps.

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and so, of course, as we wrap up
Mrs. Peter is ass.

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Because there’s another bride
that has been pulled away from a

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00:45:10,408 –> 00:45:17,000
life of inevitability.
To be led about by a husband.

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As Romans 8 verses 1617 says,
Heirs of God and heirs together

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with Christ.
If we suffer with him, that we

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may also be glorified with him.
Whereas together in the same way

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00:45:40,500 –> 00:45:46,600
she was and how much more than
Peter and his wife were held

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00:45:46,600 –> 00:45:50,100
together by their spared, their
shared sense of heirship of the

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00:45:50,100 –> 00:45:55,400
grace of life, is there to be
the bond between the lamb and

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00:45:55,400 –> 00:45:59,400
those who in the words of
Revelation, 14 follow him

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wherever he goes.
Like mrs.

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00:46:05,600 –> 00:46:10,600
Peter the journey we’re called
to go on is one that we couldn’t

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00:46:10,600 –> 00:46:15,200
have imagined at the beginning.
Maybe it’s a journey that takes

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00:46:15,200 –> 00:46:20,900
a natural toll.
But has as its objective, that

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00:46:20,900 –> 00:46:25,100
which is imperishable.
The development of a Meek and

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00:46:25,100 –> 00:46:29,500
quiet Spirit.
That’s not shaken by what would

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00:46:29,500 –> 00:46:36,600
otherwise be frightening.
We’re told in Hebrews chapters 4

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and 5 that our Lord deals with
us in an understanding way.

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00:46:44,900 –> 00:46:48,600
He is the high priest who can
sympathize with our weakness.

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00:46:51,400 –> 00:46:56,000
He is the one Hebrews 5 verse 2
that deals gently with the

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00:46:56,000 –> 00:47:04,800
ignorant and the wayward and he
calls us. to draw near to him,

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00:47:05,800 –> 00:47:10,900
to find the mercy and the grace,
we need to hold us together in

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00:47:10,900 –> 00:47:19,300
times of need So his inheritance
and ours, the suffering, and the

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00:47:19,308 –> 00:47:24,200
glory is joy, and ours are bound
together.

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00:47:26,900 –> 00:47:33,700
And we share this meal together
to remind us of this Union being

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heirs together.
And we celebrate that Bond.

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