Bob Lloyd – Class 4: Life is a Temporary Assignment

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I think that weekend has been
the way of life and this

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morning, as part of his
exaltation, by the Bob will

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address this topic.
Life is a temporary assignment.

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My beloved Brothers and Sisters
of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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We bring with us the loving
greetings of our home.

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Ecclesia known as Verdugo Hills
in the city of Los Angeles, in

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the state of California.
We love coming here, we’ve been

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here before and it’s wonderful
to see.

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So many of you again that we’ve
come to know and love from

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previous trips.
And then there’s the bonus of

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meeting new ones, which we have
not met before.

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And we’re so pleased that we can
come together around this table

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to remember our Lord this
morning.

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Now, our normal practice on
Sunday mornings, if we’re

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exhorting, is to base our
comments on the day.

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Readings and idat reading this
morning was the last chapter of

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Acts and it’s filled with
exhortation.

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So, we had a temptation of
should we stray?

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But then we were trying to do a
study on the way of life.

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And so, it was decided that we
would use one of those studies

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and adapt it to the exhortation.
So, we hope you’ll forgive us

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for, for not commenting on the
book of Acts, because it’s not

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because there’s not good,
exhortation are It’s just that

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there’s not enough time to do
that Justice and cover the

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subject, which is part of the
way of life.

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And that subject for this
morning is life is a temporary

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assignment.
In our last class yesterday,

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some of you were here but not
all.

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We considered the way of life
was a test.

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And the way of life is a trust.
But now we want to concentrate

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on another aspect of our walk in
the truth that our way of life

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is a temporary assignment.
Now, the Bible is full of

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metaphors that teach us about
how brief how temporary how

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transient in nature is our life.
God in the Bible describes Life

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as a mist.
As a fast runner as breath as a

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wisp of smoke.
And as grass for as a man his

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days are like grass.
He flourishes for like a flower

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of the field.
Is David said in the Psalms

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Isaiah said, who are you that
you fear mortal man.

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The sons of men are just but
grass.

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Again eyes.
This is the voice that crying.

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He said, what shall I Cry?
Yes, it wasn’t all flesh is

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grass and all the goodliness
thereof is as a flower of the

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field.
So grass is not permanent, we

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mow it and throw it away and our
life is like grass, Psalms 78.

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David says, for we remembered
that they were but flesh a

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breath that passeth away and
does not come just a breath and

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we’re gone.
Man is like two vanities of

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Psalm 144 his days are like a
shadow that passeth away.

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And in Ecclesiastes Solomon
said, one generation passeth

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away and another generation
cometh but the Earth abideth

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forever.
Isaiah 29.

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Moreover, the multitude of I
strangers, shall be like the

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small dust and the multitude of
the terrible ones shall be as

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chaff that passes the way who
see us as therefore they shall

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be as the morning Cloud you know
Cloud drifts across and it’s

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gone as the early do that passes
away as chaff that is driven

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with the Whirlwind out of the
floor and a smoke of a chimney.

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None of these things have any.
Permanence and so there’s two

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points, we want to stress as we.
Come here to meet our Lord in

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the number one, is that compared
to Eternity.

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Our life is very short.
And number two, we won’t be here

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long as a mortal so don’t get
too attached to it.

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We need to ask God to help us
see life as he sees it from

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God’s Viewpoint, try to put
yourself in his shoes so to

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speak which would know it cannot
do.

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But let’s try.
Have you ever thought about

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Methuselah?
Well of course, Methuselah’s

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famous.
He lived longer than anybody who

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ever lived 969 years important
Methuselah he never lived to see

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Monday morning.
Let me explain that.

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Peter tells us that a thousand
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It’s just like one day to God, a
thousand years are like one day.

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Now Methuselah lived 969 years,
he died before Monday morning.

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If he was born at 12:01 a.m.
Sunday, Sunday morning, he

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didn’t live a whole day.
We think that we’re have a long

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life, if we live 70 or 80, maybe
90 years, if you’re 15 years

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old, you haven’t even lived. 22
minutes.

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If you’re 30, you’ve left less
than 45 minutes and if you’re 62

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years old you’ve only lived an
hour and a half.

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Nobody in this room has lived to
see 3 a.m. because 3 a.m. is

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125.
Years basing a day to represent

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a thousand years so that tells
you how temporary we are all

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here.
And so we need to pray the

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prayer.
That David prayed, he said, show

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me O Lord.
My life’s end and the number of

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my days let me know how fleeting
Being is my life.

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You’re young, you’re full of
life and you think you’re going

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to live forever or you’re old
and you realize, you’re coming

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to the end of your days and all
of us just like a puff of smoke

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of poof we’re here and we gone.
And so the Bible is trying to

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teach us that we live here only
temporarily and we live.

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Here is this we were a stranger.
We don’t really belong to well,

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I’m an Australian I was born and
bred here in Australia goody for

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you.
But this is not your country.

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You want to be in the kingdom of
God, more than anything else in

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all the world.
And so where you live, it’s just

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your temporary Abode while
you’re waiting for Jesus to

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come.
So, scripture defines our life

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as being an alien as being a
pilgrim as being a foreigner as

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being a stranger, as being a
visitor, as being a traveler

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David said in Psalm 119, I am a
stranger on Earth.

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Do not hide your Commandments
from me.

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Peter says, since you call on a
father who judges each man’s

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work.
Impartially.

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Live your lives as strangers
here in reverence Paul tells us

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that our citizenship is in
heaven.

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I came here with a passport, you
cannot travel Unita till you

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call straight without a pass.
Not only that.

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You have to get a Visa most
countries, allow Americans to

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come without a Visa.
But you don’t used to have to go

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down to the consulate to get it.
But now, you do it,

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electronically, cost, $25.
You can’t just come to

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Australia.
Because I’m a visitor.

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I’m not allowed to work here.
They won’t let you, you want to

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hire me.
You can’t not that you wouldn’t

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want to anyway, but I am
strictly a stranger and a

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foreigner here in Australia, in
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But, you know, that’s not a sin,
I’m thankful for that.

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And if you come to visit us in
America, you will be a foreigner

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and you won’t be extending by
doing that either, because all

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of us need to get this
mentality.

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That we don’t really belong
where we live, we live where we

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live, but we don’t belong, where
we live, because our citizenship

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is in heaven.
And we eagerly await a savior

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from there.
The Lord Jesus Christ that we’ve

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come to remember with these
emblems.

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And so Paul tells us what we are
while we’re waiting.

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This is what you are.
We are ambassadors for Christ as

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though God did beseech you to
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We pray you in Christ’s stead be
ye reconciled to God.

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So I’m looking at a crowd of
ambassadors, for Christ.

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You’re not Australian, I’m not
American.

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We are ambassadors for Christ,
Living in Australia, or living.

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In America, or living in Canada,
or living in Atlanta, where

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every we might live, but we’re
all here temporarily.

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Don’t get too comfortable with
that you belong with you, where

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you’re living.
Now, just pretend that George

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Bush.
You never heard of me.

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He came from the same town in
Texas that I used to live in.

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But I moved before he was even
born.

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If he were to call me up and
said, Bob, we want to send you

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to Australia as the Ambassador
for the United States.

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That’s a very high position that
it’s an honor to be an

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ambassador in a another country
representing your own.

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And so, every country you have
ambassadors all over the world,

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our country has a bachelor’s all
over the world, but when you go

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to, where you’re going to live,
where do you live, you live in

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the country to where you are
assigned as an ambassador.

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But do you belong there?
No.

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You’re there temporarily soon as
we get a new president, you’ll

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be gone.
They’ll get a new Ambassador.

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Now, when you get there, what do
you do?

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Well, you drive on the left side
of the road, if you’re in

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Australia, and if you became the
ambassador of Australia, to

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United States, you would drive
on the right side of the road.

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And if you were the ambassador
of the Australia to mosque to

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Russia, in living in Moscow, you
would try to learn a few words

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of Russian and you would respect
their position their laws.

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But you would not get involved
in any of their politics.

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You don’t really belong there.
You’re an ambassador from the

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country that sent you to the
country, you’re living in and

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that’s our row right now.
Brothers and sisters, as we wait

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for Christ, you don’t really
belong here.

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Like, where you live here?
It’s a nice place to live but

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don’t feel too comfortable that
what this is.

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My home, this is Mike my
country, we have a song over my

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country.
Tree.

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Peter says I beseech you.
I’m pleading with you brother

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and sister get this point.
This is so important I beseech

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you as aliens.
So you’re an alien.

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I’m a live in Australia.
Born on certain, you’re an

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alien.
And an exile.

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And you supposed to abstain from
the passions of the flesh.

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That wage war against your soul.
Now, while you’re living, here

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is an alien.
How you’re going to behave?

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Well, maintained Good Conduct
among the Gentile, you obey the

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laws in this country unless it
was a law that was conflicting

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with the law of Christ.
You you drive on their side of

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the road?
You, you bathe are rules, you

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respectful of their government,
but you don’t get involved in

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anything they’re doing.
And that’s what we’re supposed

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to be doing now.
Be subject for the Lord’s sake

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to every Human Institution.
I’m just reading Peter for do

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you.
These were words.

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You already know what Peter is
that I want to stir up your pure

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Minds by way of remembrance.
So I didn’t come here to tell

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you something, you never heard
before.

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We’ve come here to just remind
you Of some of you already knew

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but we all need to be reminded
of it in order to be more

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faithful in living it.
Because our life in the truth is

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not something to talk about.
It’s a way to live.

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So, be subject for the Lord’s
sake, to every Human

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Institution, whether it be to
the emperor supreme, or to

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Governor’s is sent by him to
punish those who do wrong.

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And to praise those who do right
for it.

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Is God’s will.
That by doing right, you should

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put to silence the ignorance of
foolish men.

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You are going to live such a
squeaky-clean life in Australia

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that nobody can point.
The Vincent.

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Oh boy, that’s he’s a
troublemaker.

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She’s a problem.
No, you behave yourself where

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you live, but not because you
belong there because you’re

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representing Christ wherever it
is.

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You’re living.
And that gives a different light

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on our activities in life
because our put to silence this

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foolishly these ignorance of
foolish men.

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Think about Daniel and me,
Daniel was involved, helping the

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medes and the Persians.
And he kept pure to the God and

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if he had some enemies and he
said we got to get him.

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What do you know about?
Can you dig up on Daniel?

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Only thing they could think of,
was that he prayed.

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I hope that your neighbors, the
people that you work with.

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And for The people you go to
school with your teachers,

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everybody that knows you cannot
find anything bad about you

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except that you worship God.
And so, you know, the end of the

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story ended up in the Lion’s Den
because he stood up for what he

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believed was.
Right now, I have to confess

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that if I’d been Daniel I might
have said, you know, this is

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only 30 days God you this, it
may just temporary decree just

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to get him 30 days.
So for 30 days you know ones to

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approach anybody except the king
well that made the king feel

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pretty important.
You know what a stupid rule at

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was?
I mean he bought this their line

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Hook Line & Sinker Love, Daniel.
He was just duped by Daniel’s

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images to get him but if you’d
been Daniel and you had my kind

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of mind, you say God, you
understand, it’s only 30 days.

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Now I normally get down on my
knees and pray to you but your

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tea when I’ll do God, just just
for 30 days.

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I’m going to just crawl in bed
and I’m going to close my eyes

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and they’re going to look in and
they’re going to look.

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They’ll think I’m asleep.
But I’m awake.

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I’m praying God, I’m just Not
going to do it on my knees.

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Like I usually.
Do you understand got this for

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30 days?
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Daniel didn’t do that, did he?
He did what was right in spite

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of their rules and that’s what
we have to do, but aren’t you

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thankful, you live in a country
where you’re not forced to do

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things against what God has
taught you.

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Perhaps only in this example of
voting which I know you don’t do

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but which you’re commanded to do
by this country and I country

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it’s not a law.
I don’t vote that.

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I don’t bring it along, not
going, but if it was a law to

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vote.
Aye.

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Can you break that long because
we have to break the laws of

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conflict with the laws of God,
but we live in countries, which

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allow us to worship God as we
see fit.

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But God never said you could
worship me as you see, fit, you

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have to worship Him in spirit
and in truth, you’ve got to do

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what he said, no matter where
you live because you are his

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Ambassador.
Now, in our country, we have a

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paper.
It’s revered by Americans called

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the Declaration of Independence.
I don’t know if you ever heard

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of it or not, but it’s supposed
to Grant all Americans.

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The inalienable right to pursue,
happiness.

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I mean that’s built into the
Constitution.

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Sure you have the right to
pursue happiness and Port.

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I do we do it over there.
You can on the freeways and are

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pursuing in every direction.
Whoo doesn’t say you have the

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right to happiness.
It has, you have the right to

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chase it.
Now, one wise man who was an

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American said, the pursuit of
happiness is a ridiculous

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phrase.
If you pursue happiness, you’ll

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never find it.
But most people are not wise

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enough to realize how foolish
that statement is.

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And so, what are they doing?
They’re out chasing it, they get

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up in the morning.
We got 25 fat from happiness

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today and the harder, you chase
it, that more elusive, It

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becomes you will never catch
Happiness by pursuing it, a

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little story.
It’s a silly story but it

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teaches a lesson Jesus used lots
of stories to drive home

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lessons.
This is a story which although

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you know it’s far-fetched, the
lesson, it teaches you is worth

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remembering.
And it has to do with two cats,

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there’s an alley behind this
house, and there’s a old Tomcat,

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he’s sitting up on the fence,
just sitting there, you know,

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purring away and down in the
road below.

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Him is a young cat and this
young cat is full of vim and

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vigor your war and this cat is
chasing his tail.

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We’ll just walk around around
going and they do cats is what

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are you doing down there?
And the young cat being young,

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you know, young people know
everything I just graduated from

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cat College.
And I learned in cat college

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that happiness is found in the
tail of the cat.

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If I can just catch my tail,
I’ll be happy.

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And the whole cats as well.
I never got to go to college.

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I just grew up in the back
alleys of Sydney.

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But I also know that happiness
is found in the tail of the cat.

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But I have also learned that if
I will just go straight forward

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and do what’s right?
Happiness, will follow me all

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the days of my life.
And so there’s an old cat that

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had more wisdom than the young
cat who just graduated from cat

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College.
And I hope that we learned the

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lesson that you don’t get
Happiness by pursuing it, you

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get Happy by going forward doing
what’s right and happiness?

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Just comes as a by-product.
The people who want to be happy

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and say, oh, I want to be happy
or the most miserable people

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around and Solomon.
Wise, King Solomon.

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He says, I decided to enjoy
myself and find out what

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happiness in.
I’m gonna he hadn’t heard the

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cat story.
He’s I decided I found it

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outside to enjoy myself.
To I found that whatever I did

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was useless.
I got whatever I want and I did

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I did anything that made me
happy.

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He could, he was a king.
But most of all, I enjoyed my

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work, then I thought about
everything that I had done,

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including the hard work, was
simply chasing the wind.

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Nothing on Earth is worth the
trouble in of modern brands are,

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you know, on the King James is
Vanity of vanities.

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All is Vanity.
Someone found out that living a

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life of self and dud.
Indulgence was empty and not

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satisfying that all he had tried
it, it did not work, he could

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not get happy trying to be
happy, he was under.

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So what does it what do you do?
What does it take for you to be

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happy?
Well if we’re wise were

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ambassadors for Christ, we
listen to the Bible, the Bible

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got to tell us the answer.
Happy is the man who has the

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Lord for his God and Austin him
happiness comes from finding

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wisdom, happiness comes from
doing God’s, will happiness,

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comes from caring and helping
others along the way.

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Now people who are not
Christian, delphine’s actually

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have discovered these same
truths.

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William James said, if you want
to make others happy, Practice

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compassion.
If you want to be happy practice

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compassion.
Mark Twain said, cheer yourself

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up by trying to cheer somebody
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So the way to happiness is to
put your life in God’s hands and

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realize as Mark Twain and
William James said, think about

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others.
And when you are trying to help

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somebody else and you’re doing
for them, all of a sudden you

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find out, you’re happy, you
forgotten about trying to be

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happy and the people said making
I just want to be happy or

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miserable.
It’s an interesting thing and

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the world has not learned it
like the cat right out of

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college.
She had not learned it, so our

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temporary assignment as we
journey to the on the way to the

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kingdom, is to forget about
yourselves.

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Just forget yourself and learn
to think of others.

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The more you think of others,
the happy you will be the more

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you think of yourself the more
miserable?

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You will be.
They Jesus gives us the only

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picture we have of the Judgment.
See again, you know this?

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Well, nothing new to you.
It’s in Matthew chapter 25 and

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he He tells us how it will be at
the Judgment.

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See and he’s going to talk to
you, you know, you’re going to

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be there.
Oh, those are going to partake

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of these emblems.
This morning, are going to be

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there.
Whether you’re ready or not,

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you’re going to be there and the
point is to get ready because

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it’s going to be too late to get
ready when we get the call, the

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master is coming calls for you.
So now is our time to be getting

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ready but what are you doing?
While you’re getting ready?

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Jesus is going to explain it to
us.

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The king says come, you know, I
was I was hungry and you gave me

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something to eat.
I was thirsty.

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You gave me something to drink.
I have to thank you all you

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Brothers.
You’ve been so kind to me this

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week week and I mean, I people
have been bringing me Waters.

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Bringing me food.
Yeah, being conscious of my

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needs.
I’m an old man and I don’t get

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around like I used to but but
you’re showing thoughtfulness.

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Well, when you’re doing that,
you’re making yourself happy.

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But all that.
Wasn’t what you’re trying to do,

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you’re trying to help me and it
made me happy to see you.

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Help me.
So ever.

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It was a win-win situation and
the person.

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Who cares only about themselves
their miserable?

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Hey, have you walk out a door
and you see the person right?

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He just slammed in your face,
you know all the thing about.

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I wasn’t going out the door.
You’re going to do it, you hold

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it open for somebody else.
If it’s a door that’s going to

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close on you.
So Jesus is saying this is what

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you did to me.
He’s talking to you, it’s going

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to be you, you’re going to be
there and he tells say this to

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you.
I was hungry and you fed me.

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I was thirsty.
You gave me something.

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I was a stranger and you took me
in.

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I was in prison.
All have you ever visited a

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prison?
They’re not a very pleasant

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place to go.
Who would you visit a

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christadelphians?
We have christadelphians in

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prison.
Do you go see them?

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If there happens to them when
they’re sick, do you go to the

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hospital?
Do you go to the nursing homes?

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You all these places are
sometimes your smelly.

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I’ve had Christian say I don’t
go to those places because they

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don’t smell good and then they
turn out to be in one

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themselves.
As a patient.

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Strange.
How life comes that way?

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I you invited me to your home,
we talked about that yesterday

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and you didn’t remember any of
this.

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They said, Lord.
When we that we never went to

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prison to see you.
We didn’t feed you.

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We didn’t give you anything to
drink.

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Oh, but you did in as much as
you did it.

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And one of the least of these,
my brethren, you did it for me.

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And then he’s going to turn to
those who didn’t do it, who were

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wrapped up in their own life.
And I just want to make sure I’m

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comfortable.
I’m well fed.

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I’m, I have enough to drink.
I’m well, clothes don’t talk

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about you too bad, he warmed and
filled, just go take this area.

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So, James talks about that.
Thinking of self and miserable

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thinking of others and happy.
So so is this is a true win-win

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situation.
If you learn to put yourself out

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for others now, you will be
happy now.

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And when Jesus comes, you’re
going to be happier than you

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have ever been.
When he says Come Ye blessed of

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my father inherit the Kingdom,
prepared for you, from the

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foundation of the world and all
the little things that you did

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that, you didn’t realize.
We’re for Jesus, they were for

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him because you did it for
others.

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Are we doing this brothers and
sisters?

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You only living here,
temporarily don’t get too

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comfortable where you live, but
just realize that while you are

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here as an ambassador, your job
is to look after other people.

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Old people, young people people
in between someone doesn’t have

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a car, give them a ride to
meeting people who can’t go out

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to get groceries.
We go buy groceries for them and

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just little things.
Glass of water.

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This is not a very big deal.
Jesus is if you just give a

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glass of water in my name, I
remember it.

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You will not lose your reward
for that.

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No.
But somebody, somebody was

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thoughtful enough to realize
that the speaker might need a

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glass of water during the talk
and so they put themselves out a

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little bit by saying and it’s
even cold water so they have

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been careful about the little
details because they care.

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So I think that person whoever
they were they didn’t do that to

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be thanked.
But I do appreciate it.

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But the more important thing is
though, it is the Lord.

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Now James is going to tell you
about pure religion.

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Now, this is the definition of
pure religion and is not the

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definition that christadelphians
would normally.

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Get if you didn’t know about
this verse, this is certainly

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not what you would have said.
I want you to tell me your

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Christian out here.
Yes, I’m a Christian Delphia.

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Well, this Puro that’s pure
religion.

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What is pure religion?
Well, let me tell you about pure

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religion, we don’t get involved
in the world.

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Of course, we You come up, very
up, the Birmingham in the

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statement of faith, we meet on
the bridge, we’re trying to keep

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the doctors pure.
We’re trying to keep hold High

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the standards of the truth.
You know, that’s all correcting,

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right?
It’s not what James said, it

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all.
That’s not what he said.

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Don’t want you to think that.
I don’t think those things are

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important, because I know
they’re important, but if you

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keep the standards of the truth,
I and you keep yourself very

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pure.
But you don’t do anything for

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anybody else.
Your religion is vain.

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It’s worthless in spite of the
fact that it’s pure if you don’t

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get busy doing for other people
and caring for their

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insignificant little needs, Your
religion is in vain.

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I wouldn’t dare come all the way
from California and say that to

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you.
Except I’m only telling you what

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James said, and he was speaking
about inspiration.

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So, he’s right.
Even though I could easily be

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wrong.
So, how are we doing?

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We’re going to partake of these
emblems in a minute.

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They represent a body that was
given for you.

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He can’t do more than give your
life.

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That’s the ultimate sacrifice.
He laid down his life for you

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when you partake of the bread
and the wine you are in symbol

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taking Jesus inside you, the
Lord Jesus Christ is being

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consumed by you and what did he
say?

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Follow me.
And what did he do?

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He had compassion on the
multitude, even some of the

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people that killed him, he was
kind to them now.

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If you are pretty young girl and
I came up to you and tell you,

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I’m going to give you a kiss and
you don’t want one.

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You can make it very difficult
for me, you know, I’m going to

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give you all know you’re not in
here.

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You’re talking.
I thought I might overpower you,

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if I was Stronger than you.
But you would be giving it

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reluctantly because you don’t
want to kiss from an old man

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like me.
But Jesus knew that Judas was

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going to kissing.
And he knew that that would be

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the sign he was being betrayed.
It was a death kiss.

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And Jesus called him friend,
wherefore art thou, come and he

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allowed Judas to kiss him, do
it, meant his arrest.

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You see Stephen looked after
himself he just forgot himself

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at helped others and that’s the
Lord that we’re coming.

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Now to remember the one who gave
his life for you.

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Are you going to do that for
him?

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Are you too wrapped up in this
life?

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Are you too busy with the things
of this life?

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You have no time to help your
brothers and sisters.

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Poor Paul.
Paul was in prison, we just read

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about him in prison in Rome in
today’s readings and he writes a

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letter to the Philippians.
He says I’d like to send

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somebody to you but you know of
all the brothers and sisters, I

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know they’re all wrapped up in
their own affairs.

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Except Timothy.
One exception.

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He cares about you, he’s willing
to come and visit you, because I

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can’t.
I’m in jail.

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You go visit somebody, you jump
in your car and you drive on

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paved roads.
You pull up it to their house

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and no great effort.
Timothy had to walk in to take a

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boat driven by the wind.
It took not days, it took weeks

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maybe even months for them to
get around.

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Would you get in a Sailing Boat
and sail across the Pacific to

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my house to see me?
Because he heard I was sick.

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Why don’t have time?
I’ve got a job to do.

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That would be true.
I know.

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Most drop bosses.
Want Levi, give you that much

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time off.
But you see how involved are you

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in this world that you don’t
have time to do these things for

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the Lord.
Well, I have a job.

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Do I have homework to do?
I can’t, I can’t go visit that

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sister.
I have a test tomorrow.

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Well, that’s probably right and
you have to prioritize your time

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and there is a time and place
for all things and you can’t

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always do what you want to do
when you want to do it.

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But the question is, are you
thinking about trying to help

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others?
And are you making ways to help

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others?
Or are you just filling yourself

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with your own life and your own
activities?

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I don’t have time to go to the
Bible class.

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I know it’s a nice thing to see.
She’s going on, I’m busy.

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How many of you are Timothy’s?
Yes, I would like to say is All

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of You Are.
Paul couldn’t say that.

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And I can’t because I don’t know
you that, well, all I’m saying,

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is this exhortation is about
becoming a Timothy?

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It’s about forgetting yourself.
It’s about devoting your life.

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To Jesus.
So in as much as you do these

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things to other Christian Alfie
ins you do them for him and in

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as much as you don’t do it, you
don’t do it to him.

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And so your religion needs to be
pure and you have to keep

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yourself unspotted from the
world.

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But you do that by getting
involved in your closure.

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You get involved in and today
it’s so much easier.

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All you young people have email
and you text messages all over

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the place.
Sometimes send that one to an

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00:33:04,400 –> 00:33:08,300
old guy.
You know, young people sometimes

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think, oh, people are invisible.
They can walk right by you.

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They don’t even speak to you
because they are your old, you

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00:33:14,700 –> 00:33:19,100
know, and some old people don’t
notice this sweet young people.

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And so we care about each other,
the young carers about the old,

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00:33:25,400 –> 00:33:29,600
the old cares about the yuck, we
all love each other and we’re

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trying to help each other get
into the kingdom.

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So you do that by extending your
hand to others and helping them

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along the way.
Just remember, you’re only here

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for as a puff of smoke.
You’re not here too long.

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Get involved in your cliche,
things, find out who’s sick,

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00:33:51,100 –> 00:33:52,900
find out, who needs to be
visited?

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Find out what you can do.
You got a brother that hurt

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00:33:55,800 –> 00:33:59,500
himself and he can’t move his
Lon go over and mow his lawn for

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00:33:59,500 –> 00:34:05,100
him mundane things that you can
do for they’re people that shows

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that you love God, because
you’re trying to help them

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Because everything you’re saying
is being and doing is being

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recorded in heaven and all the
things you’re not saying and

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00:34:17,699 –> 00:34:20,400
doing, you know, their sins of
omission and their sins of

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commission.
You can say what I’d ever do

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anything bad to anybody.
I just never did anything.

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And that can’t be right.
So, our message, as we come to

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these emblems is Lord.
You died for me.

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I’m pretty sure how much I love
you.

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By the way, I treat my brothers
and sisters.

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I’m pretty sure how much I love
you.

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By the way, I treat my brothers
and sisters.