Dev Ramcharan – Class 4: Counsel for Uncertainty

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This is day.
Five of the 2022 Palm Springs

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Bible School.
Our first period teachers for

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the dev Ram shree.
In his General subject is the

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whole duty of man.
Today’s topic is counsel for

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uncertainty brother Dev.
Well, that was the end of the

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weirdest set of announcements
I’ve ever heard in all my years

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in the truth.
But they would wake us up every

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morning, wouldn’t they?
We would look forward to the

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announcements after the first
set that shocked us and then we

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would look forward to it after
that, and it was always fun.

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Vanity of vanities.
All is Vanity.

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That’s what the preacher says,
what profit is there?

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Of all that a man labors in.
Through the days of his life.

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Now, it starts off in that place
and the impression that you

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would get is at this book is
very dark and everything that is

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in.
It is altogether depressing, he

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keeps talking about death, we
make money, we do these things,

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we have fun, and they would die,
and all ends in death.

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But if we interpreted from the
point of view of a Believer, it

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has a different opposite
message.

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And this is the message.
Don’t get so taken up with the

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things of this life.
That you forget?

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Where we’re headed as believers.
Your life in this world ends in

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death so that means you’ve got a
timeline that you’re working to

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be busy in it.
Enjoy your life, enjoy the

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blessings.
You receive from God, honor him

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honor him in this life and see
the things that you have as

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blessings from him, that you
ought to be able to enjoy So you

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don’t walk around furtively
carrying a burden of guilt on

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your shoulders that you well
that you you have a life or you

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have some Prosperity that you
can enjoy.

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The prosperity of this life is
not our Focus.

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It’s not our focus, our focus is
the kingdom.

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And while we have life while we
have breath in our lungs, this

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work for us to do and we saw on
Monday night that well, as an

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old man or old woman and I knew
that that would lurk you.

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I knew it would make.
I’m not old.

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I’m only 100 years old old.
He’s old.

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I’m not old.
I used it deliberately because

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it’s Fashionable.
In this world we’re living in

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today but we are old.
You are old relish, it.

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Celebrated.
It is not something that somehow

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is a curse that has fallen upon
you and an unfortunate stage of

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life.
It is the best phase of your

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life.
No matter what.

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Our society says, about old age,
Ton of wisdom.

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It’s a time of recognition.
It’s a time of realizing how

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active God has been in your life
all the way through, right up

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till now.
It’s a time of grandchildren and

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great-grandchildren and seeing
the generations.

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Oh yes.
You see the challenges.

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You see what’s not working,
right?

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But you also have the joy of
those relationships.

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It’s a time where your
relationships with your friends

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that are still alive becomes
even more precious because, you

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know, each day is a gift, it
always was But she didn’t

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realize it till now.
It always was a gift.

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It’s a time of life where if
your wife or your husband is

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still at your side, even though
some days you drive each other

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crazy, and I’m not using that
word in the clinical sense.

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Even though you may have your
days when you get on each

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other’s nerves, it is a
tremendous blessing to have that

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gift of another human being
keeping company with you along

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the road to God’s Kingdom.
So the vanity of vanities B is

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to is to give us a bracing, bit
of knowledge, don’t forget this

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life ends.
Don’t get wrapped up in it.

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Be always about thankfulness to
God.

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Enjoy?
What he’s given you, but get

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ready for his kingdom.
That’s the message.

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For a man of this world, a woman
of this world.

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This is a dire message because
it says all that you have is

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going to be ripped away from
you.

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The minute you stop breathing.
All you wasted your time on all

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you were obsessed.
With all you thought was the

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most important gone with you and
your God.

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You’re done, Dever, am Tren,
1962 Dash, whatever the entire

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thing, summed up in a dash.
And that’s what their life is.

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This is the dash world.
We’re living in.

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But we are not Dash people.
We go on and on, and on you,

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fall asleep in the Lord.
What happens you wake up just

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like that because time, Time
didn’t happen to you anymore.

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You died.
You woke up at the Judgment

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seat.
Laying before the Lord and

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hearing everything you’ve said
and done all those things that

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will be revealed that you, you
kept covered up because you were

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ashamed.
Like me, all of us have those

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things.
And then you hear the words of

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Mercy, not great.
Hope that we have.

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Enter into the joy of your
father’s Kingdom.

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Now, that’s beyond the dash.
That’s our Focus.

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So then, does this period of our
lives and I say our with you

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Does it constitute the most
miserable difficult awful?

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You know, depressing stage of
Our Lives?

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Or are we getting ready for a
trip?

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Remember, how you got ready to?
Come here?

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You hauled out the suitcase.
Tony put in about 50 dresses, 10

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pairs of pants.
And wondered if she’d remember

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that special sweater, she was
going to bring.

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All right?
And you haul.

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That thing out that you were
very careful, exactly what you

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were packing.
Well that’s how the stage of

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your life has to become.
What are you packing into it?

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What are you leaving behind and
in people?

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What kind of Peace are you
trying to make celebrate this

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stage of your life?
Oh, it hurts joints fingers,

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can’t turn the pages properly,
write all of those things.

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Yes, but that’s just stuff on
the side.

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That’s going to happen to
everyone.

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Celebrate, what?
You know to be true.

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Who, you know, to be worth
leaning on and relying on.

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And be the kind of person who
quietly. but at the same time

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intentionally, Preachers God
truth God’s truth to people

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inside the truth in your family.
Wherever you may be find

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yourself.
This is what you do in your last

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stage of life. and when you look
at the people that are around,

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you everyday is a fond farewell
It’s like the end of this Bible

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School.
Every time your son daughter,

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grandkids great-grandchildren,
leave your place where you are.

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It’s a fond farewell.
I don’t know if I’ll see you

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again, this side of the Kingdom,
but my hope is, I’ll see you on

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the other side.
So we go then to chapter 8,

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chapter 8.
So, who is the wise man?

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And who knows the interpretation
of a thing?

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He says something quite
interesting.

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He says this A man’s Wisdom,
makes his face to shine.

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And the sternness.
The hardness of his face.

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Is changed.
Now, Abe Lincoln is supposed to

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have said, every man.
Over 40 is responsible for his

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face. if you have a miserable
scowl, And you look at life,

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that’s what people see.
You look like one of those

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wrinkly dogs, you know the ones
I’m talking about, you’re

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responsible for that.
Look it’s not a thing that

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happened to you.
It’s a thing that you made.

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So what this is saying is this
Our knowledge of the truth and

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our understanding, and our
gladness about the love of God,

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and the gospel, and what our
Lord did for us.

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It changes our face.
It puts into our face.

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A joyfulness.
It’s right under the skin.

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A calm and acceptance a
recognition that life may have

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its troubles its challenges and
its tears but ultimately we have

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so much to be grateful for
someone should be happy about

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it.
As oh.

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So that’s why it says our face
is altered.

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By the things we realize about
God, about the truth.

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And about the blessings.
We have received Then he has a

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number of verses where he talks
about making sure you will Bei.

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The king, do not fool around
with those who are in Authority.

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You never know when the when the
that, that heavy fist of rebuke

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or discipline by the authorities
can fall upon us.

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Now, in that the days of
Solomon, it is more than likely

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that, the king had all kinds of
power.

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That a ruler today would not
have accept.

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Who might be a tyrant in North
Korea or Russia or one of those

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countries that we know of today.
And we see tyranny in action

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right now as we are here
assembled together, So he says

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make sure that you’re careful as
it relates to the authorities

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around us verse 6.
He says to every purpose there

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is a time and judgment.
Therefore, the evil, the evil of

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man is great upon him for he
knows not that, which shall be

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for who can tell him when it
shall be.

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There’s just been talking about
rulers about the authorities and

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then he talks about the the fact
that we are inherently evil and

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really, he’s talking about the
fact that people in absolute

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power or prone to doing wrong
and terrible things.

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We see it happening right now,
right now today, Robin terrible

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things.
And he says, they don’t know

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what’s going to happen to them.
In the end.

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They have no clue verse 8.
There is no man that hath power

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of the spirit to hold, on to it.
Jeff Bezos.

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All of these people they cannot
hold on to the life that’s in

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them.
There is no discharge in that

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war were fighting which involves
death at the end.

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What he’s saying is this
soldiers might get a discharge

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in the days of Israel because
they would newly married or

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whatever the case may be.
They had these exemptions and

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today soldiers have certain
exemptions which allow them to

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have an honorable discharge but
there’s no discharge in this war

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against death.
We are all going to be conquered

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by it at some point in time,
some with no hope.

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But us with hope, the hope that
we will see Life Beyond Death At

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The Return of the Lord.
Neither shall the wicked deliver

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those the winch out wickedness
deliver those that are given to

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it.
So right now Vladimir Putin is

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bombing hospitals in Kiev.
Hospitals, but there are

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children.
Now that wickedness is not going

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to deliver him and we just use
him as an example, because he’s

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a very powerful current example
of men trusting in wickedness to

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get something, they think is
going to make them happy, but it

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won’t and his wickedness, no
matter how clever he is, is not

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going to deliver him in the end.
Now, there’s a comfort for us of

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that.
The world around looks at what’s

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happening and all they see is
the Terrible.

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Dark shadow of tyranny spreading
across Europe, the way Nazism

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had done the 1930s and 1940s.
For us, we see something

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different.
We see a man with an end and God

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will take him out at some point
in time.

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That’s what we see.
So there’s an inherent

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hopefulness.
Of the way, we look at the

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situation, we feel terrible for
our brothers and sisters in the

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Ukraine.
And in Russia, who will now have

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terrible times of deprivation of
near famine conditions.

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Nothing in the grocery stores,
no money to buy things with,

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that’s what our Russian brothers
and sisters will have.

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Deal with.
It’ll be like, living in Germany

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just after the war where people
had to eat cats and dogs to stay

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alive.
That’s what our Russian brothers

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and sisters might go through, if
we’re not able to get help to

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them through agencies, like the
CBM of the wonderful work that

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the mark and Mary and others are
doing so selflessly.

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But all that will come to an end
with the return of the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
So we go on then and we’re going

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to move past that.
By the way, I’m going to try to

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end a little early in this
session so you can have some

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more socializing time and then
maybe the second session will be

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the the prescribed amount of
time verse 11, because sentence

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against an evil work is not
executed speedily.

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Therefore, the heart of the sons
of men is fully set in them to

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do evil and boys at being Rated
right now today they don’t see

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God doing what he does and and
rebuking and disciplining them

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on the spot.
Now how do we frame these things

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and find a way to make sense of
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We read in an earlier.
Passage that God takes our lives

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and he interleaves good days and
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You remember that?
And he does it so that we can’t

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predict what’s going to happen
and relax and we can’t figure

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him out because we don’t know
what he’s going to do next, the

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end result is it throws us upon
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For help for our support, for
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If everything.
Was happy sunshiny days.

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We wouldn’t need God.
We wouldn’t reach out to him.

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We wouldn’t even pay much
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everything’s going great.
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good.
Pushes towards him.

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Now, the same thing happens in
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There are good periods and then
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Now, we are largely sheltered
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goes through?
Who are used to famine, who are

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used to pandemics?
Who are used to evil leaders who

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have the freedom of the power to
do whatever they want you to

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their populations and no one can
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We’re largely sheltered from
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What has brought it close is
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because this is now touching the
Western World were used to

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seeing things like this happen
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but we’re not used to seeing
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feeling that it might somehow
touch people in the United

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States and Canada and Britain.
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of the world that we feel a
kinship, with Australia, New

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Zealand, South Africa, the
Caribbean, and so on and so

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forth.
There’s a sense that could

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things move closer.
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because I remember growing up as
a child in the Cold War, many of

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you were adults.
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always the threat of nuclear
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Remember, remember the
television, show The Day After

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That shocking program, that
showed, what would it be?

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Like if somehow the Russians
bombed, the United States, What

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would life be like the day
after?

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All right, well, those days feel
like they’re here again, don’t

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they?
And that standoff between Russia

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and the United States.
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what happened then, right and
then the Bay of Pigs that

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happened after.
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which involved War by proxy, two
major Nations fighting it out

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using proxies that, that, that
represented them, the Vietnamese

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people against the Vietcong, who
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Soviet Union, That was a world,
it was very fragile and full of

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uncertainty.
Poutine has brought it back.

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He’s brought it back.
Now, for us, it’s actually to

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indicate to us and the whole
world should be turning to God.

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Now we should be preaching and
we should have campaigns and we

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should really make sure that the
learn to read.

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The Bible seminar series are on
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Whatever the case may be, just
to make sure that the message is

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getting out there because the
world as a whole is,

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experiencing what we have
experienced as individuals, good

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days, and bad days.
Good times and now potentially

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bad times, they won’t see an
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They won’t see hope in this
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hope and we know what’s going to
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Yes, we may argue and quibble
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but ultimately, we all agree on
the one thing Christ is going to

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return to the Earth, by the way.
Just in case you’re writing

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notes, brother death doesn’t
believed environment.

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I’m a traditionalist as far as
prophecy is concerned but I am

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open to and listen to the non
traditionalist because Always

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something we can learn from each
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All right, we always have to be
flexible to see what’s going to

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happen.
Remember when we said, Britain

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will never join the European
Union?

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Well, they did, how man will
never land on the Moon?

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Well, unless the whole thing was
a fake which some people believe

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he did land on the moon now,
Britain has come back out of the

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European Union, right?
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indicate that traditionalists
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So be open and see how things
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He said so great trouble, men’s
Hearts, failing them for fear

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for things that they see coming
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so we go on then and he says, In
verse 17 of chapter 8 then I

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beheld all the work of God that
a man cannot find out the work

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that is done under the sun.
We cannot identify with

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precision and write it out and
show exactly what God is doing

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and why we can’t.
It’s not his intention for us to

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be able to do that because
though a man labor to seek it

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out yet he shall not find it
yet.

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Moreover.
The wise man, think to know it

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yet, shall he not be able to
find it?

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So, if spiritually wise people
can’t figure out precisely what

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God is doing, then that means no
one can.

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Now in the overall frame of what
God is doing with history, has

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given us a sense of what is
happening and what is going to

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happen, but the details.
Well, we struggle, we struggle

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but we know Brethren who have
for instance, predicted for the

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last 25 years that this is the
year of Christ’s return.

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Well, it could be it could very
well be but we don’t know

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exactly.
When we just know the conditions

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that we see the conditions
getting to a point where they

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look more and more like, we’re
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What day with our?
We don’t know.

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Verse one of the next chapter
for all this, I considered in my

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heart even to declare all this,
that the righteous and the wise

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and their works are in the hand
of God.

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Look at the hope and the joy in
that.

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I can’t figure out what God is
doing, but you know what?

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God’s looking after me,
nevertheless that I could know

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with everything in my being, I
can trust that.

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That is the case.
That’s what this is saying.

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I haven’t been able to figure
out what God is doing cool

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Health says But boy.
Oh boy.

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Do I know that God has his
children in his hand.

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That’s what’s most important for
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Is that a dire – message?
It’s an altogether hopeful,

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uplifting message that we should
rejoice in.

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Don’t think about Deuteronomy 33
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Yay, he loves the people’s.
All his Saints are in thy hand

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and they sat down on that.
I feet.

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Everyone shall receive of thy
words.

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Is this Moses?
The last words he will say to

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the nation.
He tells them God’s separate,

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holy ones are in his hands and
they’re not wholly because of

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the fact that their sin less,
but because he’s chosen to see

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them as separate and holy
through his son and their

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relationship to his son that’s
us, we’re in God’s hands, it

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doesn’t matter what trouble,
what pain, what challenge you go

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through in your life.
You’re God’s child and you’re in

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his hands, John 10:27 starting
in that verse.

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The Lord says my sheep hear my
voice and I know them and they

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follow me and I give unto them
eternal life and they shall

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never perish.
And no one shall snatch them out

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of my hand.
That’s what the Lord Jesus

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Christ says about his
relationship to you.

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So in this dash world, the dash
world we live in you’re way

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beyond that.
You will have life.

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Forever.
Forever.

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Now yes it is subject to the
mercy and the will of our

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father.
We’re not people who say I’m

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saved, meaning I’m for sure.
Going to be in.

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Well they believe heaven.
We don’t say I’m for sure going

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to be in God’s kingdom but we
say, we hope that in God’s

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mercy.
He will look at our little

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lives, forgive us and give us
life in his kingdom because

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that’s what he wants for us.
That is what he wants for us, as

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took a quick look at Romans 8.
Verse has 35 to 39, you know,

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this, you know, the section
really well but just to be

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comforted by it.
Romans 8. and beginning at

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verse, 35.
Let me just find this page.

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Here we go.
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I there yet.
Yes.

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Verse 35.
Who.

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This is Dev Ramjet version.
Okay, I know you’re a modern

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version group.
So let’s see how this goes.

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Who is ever going to separate us
from?

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Christ’s love.
His trouble and distress, and

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persecution is being hungry, or
having nothing to wear is Peril

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or violence, going to separate
us from the Lord, not a single.

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One of these things is going to
separate us from the Lord Jesus

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Christ, as it’s written for your
sake, we are killed all the day

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long.
And we’re looked at as sheep

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ready to be slaughtered.
In all these things and all

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these troubles and all this,
anguish in all this distress,

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we’re not people.
That people have victory over.

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We are more than conquerors
through him.

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Who loved us so much that he
gave his life for us.

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I am sure in my mind that death
life, Angels principalities

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political powers Nothing.
That is on high.

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Nothing is down below.
No creature will ever be able to

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separate us from the love of
God?

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Which is the same love that our
Lord Jesus Christ has for us.

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Those are some pretty powerful
words, you just read.

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And they’re intended to comfort
you.

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And so, they go right back to
what Ecclesiastes is saying.

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The righteous and the wise and
their works.

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Are in the hand of God. he goes
on and he says in that verse and

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chapter 9 of Ecclesiastes,
Whether it be love or hatred man

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knows it not all is before them.
and let me tell you the

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commentators struggled mightily
around those words, and no one

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knows exactly what it means, but
in the context, it could mean a

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couple of things, it could mean
this, We have no clue. if the

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world around us living as we do
as Believers is going to love us

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or hate us and if we’re going to
have an easy or hard time of it,

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You don’t have any clue, but
that does not change.

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The fact that we’re in God’s
hands.

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Another interpretation is this
we have no clue of our life with

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all of its experience will make
us look some days like God Hates

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Us and other days, like God
loves us because of what we’re

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going through, we don’t know.
But we are certain that were in

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his hands and that in fact he
does love us.

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So there are multiple ways of
looking at what that is saying,

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but it can’t be in conflict with
the fact that we’re in his hands

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and that he loves us a message
of Ecclesiastes is not dire

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foreboding darkness and The
Descent of a black cloud upon

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you.
It is to say your life is short,

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make it a worthwhile life.
Enjoy what God gives you along

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the way, hold on through the
tough times.

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Thank him for everything that he
has and has given to you.

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And look forward to the hope of
his kingdom.

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That’s the real message.
That’s the real message and

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Colette was crying out to men
who were all about, what they

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could spend the Chariots.
They could drive in the horses.

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They can own the Weaponry, the
soldiers of the private armies

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that can afford, they were all
about that stuff.

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And he said all that is empty
foolishness if that’s all you

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have.
Because one day you are going to

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drop dead as the British Shake
say, as surely as eggs is eggs.

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Because eggs can’t be anything
else but eggs, that’s the point.

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And so we go on and we read
going down further.

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In verse 9 and this is for you
husband’s to reflect on live

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joyfully with the wife whom thou
lovest all the days of the life

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of thy vanity which he has given
you under the sun, all the days

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of your vanity for that’s your
portion in this life and in your

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labor.
Which you take under the sun?

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So love your wife.
Don’t be crabby and irritable.

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I don’t have time.
I told you then to get the

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tickets sir.
How how we going to get to the

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Bible school?
No tickets.

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You gotta go.
Listen to the breath.

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Talk about love.
I’m so tired of you messing

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00:31:17,400 –> 00:31:22,900
everything up all the time.
Not that you would do a thing

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00:31:22,900 –> 00:31:28,000
like that brother.
But the point is, he’s not

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saying live critically and crab
Ali with the wife who you love,

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00:31:32,600 –> 00:31:36,600
just not live joyfully with her
because tomorrow she may not be

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there.
The joyfully with her all the

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days of your life.
Right.

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And christadelphians marriages.
Gets stronger and stronger and

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00:31:53,200 –> 00:31:59,600
deeper and richer.
As the years go by, I had

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00:31:59,600 –> 00:32:03,800
friends of my 40s when they were
in their 40s who left their

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00:32:03,800 –> 00:32:10,800
wives one day, ran off with
somebody that was 26 years old.

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00:32:12,600 –> 00:32:14,600
I remember sitting down with one
saying, Rick.

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You realize she’s going to be
doing your diapers and just a

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few years.
He thought that was hilarious.

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00:32:26,700 –> 00:32:30,000
Then she left in two years.
So, this is what he was left

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00:32:30,000 –> 00:32:33,900
with.
Almost 50 years of age.

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No wife, two sets of alimony.
He had to be paying out.

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00:32:40,800 –> 00:32:43,100
Kids had wanted nothing to do
with him whatsoever.

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00:32:45,100 –> 00:32:46,700
And so I asked the question,
Rick.

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Would you leave your wife again
if you knew this was going to

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00:32:51,500 –> 00:32:53,700
happen?
He said, no.

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00:32:55,000 –> 00:33:01,300
I wish I’d stayed with her.
Because it wasn’t easier, except

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00:33:01,300 –> 00:33:05,300
for a short time.
And then whoever I was with

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00:33:05,300 –> 00:33:11,200
realized, I will probably leave
her too because I already left

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00:33:11,200 –> 00:33:15,100
my wife for her.
And she made a decision.

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00:33:16,600 –> 00:33:23,400
You left, right?
So for us, we all go through a

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00:33:23,400 –> 00:33:25,500
struggle.
Now they call it midlife crisis

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00:33:25,500 –> 00:33:29,300
laughingly but it’s a serious
business because this is what it

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00:33:29,300 –> 00:33:32,500
is in actual fact.
It’s not that you finally want

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00:33:32,500 –> 00:33:36,000
to do by that red sports car or
red.

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00:33:36,000 –> 00:33:37,400
Fred what was it?
A red truck.

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00:33:38,700 –> 00:33:43,400
Yes, it’s not that we wanted to
buy that.

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And, you know, it’s that we
suddenly got to a point where we

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realized, hey, I’m dying.
Working and working and working,

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00:33:54,100 –> 00:33:56,500
and working and stuff.
I wanted to do that.

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00:33:56,500 –> 00:33:59,500
I wanted to experience that what
I wanted to have.

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00:34:00,100 –> 00:34:02,000
I never got the chance to do
those things.

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00:34:02,400 –> 00:34:05,700
So I’m going to go out there and
buy that read whatever.

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00:34:07,400 –> 00:34:10,699
I’m going to and, of course,
people think you’ve lost your

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00:34:10,699 –> 00:34:13,500
mind.
It’s death that makes us do that

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00:34:13,500 –> 00:34:16,800
death.
The recognition of death on the

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00:34:16,800 –> 00:34:19,800
horizon.
That’s what drives us to do.

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00:34:19,800 –> 00:34:23,300
Those silly things and in the
world you just fishtail your way

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00:34:23,300 –> 00:34:26,300
through it.
Dangerously knocking traffic out

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00:34:26,300 –> 00:34:30,000
of the way and creating all
kinds of accidents.

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00:34:31,100 –> 00:34:35,699
Now we do it too but the truth
acts as a constraint on us.

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And it gives our wives many
opportunities to forgive us for

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00:34:41,600 –> 00:34:43,699
the mistakes that we make in
that period.

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But with this man who wrote Such
dark things seemingly in the

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00:34:48,507 –> 00:34:52,900
book is telling us is make sure
there’s joy in your marriage.

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00:34:53,900 –> 00:34:57,000
It’s something you built into it
and work at it and work at it

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00:34:57,000 –> 00:35:00,000
and work at.
And sometimes it’s a decision,

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00:35:00,000 –> 00:35:03,100
you make not a thing that just
naturally falls out of the sky

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00:35:03,200 –> 00:35:05,900
on you.
And when you ask some of these

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00:35:05,900 –> 00:35:09,600
people who leave each other,
what was it that made you do it?

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00:35:09,900 –> 00:35:12,800
I wasn’t happy and I felt I
deserve to be happy.

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00:35:13,700 –> 00:35:17,700
And so I thought if I left and
found someone else or went with

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00:35:17,700 –> 00:35:20,700
the someone else had already
found, I’d be happy.

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00:35:22,400 –> 00:35:26,300
And of course, the first mistake
they made was that you always

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00:35:26,300 –> 00:35:30,400
have to be happy.
That’s what this world teaches

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00:35:30,400 –> 00:35:32,600
us today.
Got to be happy, you have to be

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00:35:32,600 –> 00:35:34,500
buying things, you have to be
being things have to be

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00:35:34,500 –> 00:35:39,300
experiencing things that keep
you happy but happy happy happy

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00:35:39,300 –> 00:35:45,700
is not real life.
Remember God interleaves unhappy

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00:35:45,700 –> 00:35:51,200
times with happy times.
And so we make these disastrous

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00:35:51,200 –> 00:35:54,000
decisions.
But scripture itself says, this

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00:35:54,000 –> 00:35:58,100
is the way to happiness.
Live joyfully.

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00:35:59,300 –> 00:36:02,500
With the wife.
That you have.

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00:36:04,100 –> 00:36:07,600
All the days that you’re with
her because that’s the greatest

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00:36:07,600 –> 00:36:12,200
gift, God has given you.
That’s the portion.

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00:36:12,200 –> 00:36:14,400
Remember Israel got their
portion of land.

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00:36:15,500 –> 00:36:20,000
Remember, Levi and the priests
their portion was the service to

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00:36:20,000 –> 00:36:22,400
Yahweh.
The god of Israel and all that

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00:36:22,400 –> 00:36:26,100
entailed.
Well, your portion brother is

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00:36:26,100 –> 00:36:29,800
that woman at your side That
moment I don’t know what I’d do

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00:36:29,800 –> 00:36:33,000
without mine.
We’ve been together since I was

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00:36:33,000 –> 00:36:39,200
19, and I’m 60 now.
And there’s that worry which of

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00:36:39,200 –> 00:36:43,000
us will go first that you never
have when you’re in your 20s and

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00:36:43,000 –> 00:36:45,500
30s.
But you begin to have these

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00:36:45,500 –> 00:36:49,600
sorts of thoughts which makes
you that much more precious to

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each other.
So we go on he says verse 10

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whatsoever your hand finds to
do.

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00:37:01,100 –> 00:37:04,000
Do it with all your might
because you’re not going to live

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00:37:04,000 –> 00:37:08,400
forever in this world, right?
So whatever you do whatever

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00:37:08,400 –> 00:37:13,500
you’re working at do it.
Well as well as you can. now, if

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00:37:13,500 –> 00:37:16,700
we were to translate that into a
message for older Brethren and

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00:37:16,700 –> 00:37:22,000
sisters, but primarily the
brethren don’t retire from the

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00:37:22,000 –> 00:37:26,200
truth.
Your work in the Ecclesia may

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00:37:26,200 –> 00:37:31,000
change.
But keep active, keep helpful,

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00:37:31,900 –> 00:37:36,900
keep being a positive supporter
of the younger brothers and

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00:37:36,900 –> 00:37:42,200
sisters and the Ecclesia.
Do some Bible study, if you’re

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00:37:42,200 –> 00:37:45,400
worried about, you know, the
failure of your mind and it’s

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00:37:45,400 –> 00:37:48,200
deterioration.
There’s nothing like some Bible

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00:37:48,200 –> 00:37:52,600
study to keep it going, keeping
the brain functioning really

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00:37:52,600 –> 00:37:57,300
well, it doesn’t have to be
something heavy duty, but keep

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00:37:57,300 –> 00:38:00,600
studying.
Keep doing some Bible study some

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00:38:00,600 –> 00:38:05,000
Bible reading.
Because there’s, there’s no

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00:38:05,000 –> 00:38:07,800
knowledge.
No wisdom in the grave, where

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00:38:07,800 –> 00:38:09,400
you’re going.
Where you’re going.

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00:38:10,200 –> 00:38:14,400
All right.
Now, verse 11, I returned and

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00:38:14,400 –> 00:38:17,800
saw Under the Sun that the race
is not to the Swift, nor the

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00:38:17,800 –> 00:38:21,800
battle to the strong, your
bread, to the wise riches, to

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00:38:21,800 –> 00:38:24,900
Men of understanding favor to
Men of skill.

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00:38:25,500 –> 00:38:27,800
So what are you saying?
Is I looked out at life and, you

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00:38:27,808 –> 00:38:31,600
know, it was kind of unfair.
The things you would expect,

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00:38:32,000 –> 00:38:33,500
they just didn’t work out that
way.

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00:38:34,700 –> 00:38:36,900
Good people didn’t have good
things happen to them.

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00:38:37,400 –> 00:38:39,700
Bad people didn’t have bad,
things happen to them.

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00:38:40,400 –> 00:38:45,200
Unfair things seem to happen in
the world that we live in then

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00:38:45,200 –> 00:38:53,800
he says, But time and chance.
Happens to them all. now

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00:38:53,800 –> 00:38:58,800
remember the context We are in
God’s hands.

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00:38:58,800 –> 00:39:03,200
That means he knows every hour.
Every minute, every second of

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00:39:03,200 –> 00:39:06,300
where we’ve been, where we are
and where we’re headed more than

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00:39:06,300 –> 00:39:11,400
we will ever know, So we’re in
his hands, but in the context

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00:39:11,400 –> 00:39:13,500
here, he’s saying the things you
think would happen.

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00:39:13,500 –> 00:39:18,100
Don’t When ought to be, the
case, isn’t in the world, in

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00:39:18,107 –> 00:39:21,900
which we live.
And so, when he says, time and

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00:39:21,900 –> 00:39:25,500
chance happens to them all, he’s
saying as an extension of that

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00:39:25,500 –> 00:39:30,300
thought in its context, Though,
God knows what’s going to happen

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00:39:30,300 –> 00:39:34,900
to you and nothing happens by
chance, from his view of you in

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00:39:34,900 –> 00:39:37,500
your mind.
And in your experience, it does

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00:39:37,500 –> 00:39:42,200
happen that way.
By chance you get cancer, did

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00:39:42,200 –> 00:39:43,800
you expect it?
Did you see it coming?

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00:39:44,700 –> 00:39:49,600
Not necessarily.
It was by chance to you time the

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00:39:49,600 –> 00:39:54,700
experience of it and things that
look random to you though.

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00:39:54,700 –> 00:39:59,300
From God’s perspective, they are
not So in the context of the

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00:39:59,300 –> 00:40:04,600
passage where expected things
don’t happen and unexpected

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00:40:04,600 –> 00:40:09,400
things, do this sense is it
flows through seems to be in our

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00:40:09,400 –> 00:40:13,100
experience.
Life is like that life is like

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00:40:13,100 –> 00:40:17,800
that the will end will end with
verse 17.

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00:40:18,400 –> 00:40:24,600
The words of wise men are heard
in quiet brother will come and

569
00:40:24,600 –> 00:40:28,600
sit beside you and say, you
know, Dev when you said such and

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00:40:28,600 –> 00:40:33,600
such you realize what that was
interpreted to be.

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00:40:35,100 –> 00:40:37,000
I remember what Donald Trump was
in power.

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00:40:37,000 –> 00:40:39,400
I had a lot of things to say
about Donald Trump.

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00:40:41,200 –> 00:40:43,900
Which I regret.
Now, I really do and a very wise

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00:40:43,900 –> 00:40:46,600
kind to brother.
At Idlewild took me aside and

575
00:40:46,600 –> 00:40:51,400
said Dave, We have some brothers
and sisters here, who struggle

576
00:40:51,400 –> 00:40:55,600
about whether they should Vote
or not and it was such a shock

577
00:40:55,600 –> 00:40:57,300
to my system.
I thought, oh no.

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00:40:58,500 –> 00:41:00,300
Didn’t realize what I was doing
now.

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00:41:00,300 –> 00:41:02,700
Even if he hadn’t told me that I
should not have been saying that

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00:41:02,700 –> 00:41:09,600
because even if with a Nero our
job is to hunker down and be

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00:41:09,600 –> 00:41:13,500
obedient and to pray for the
people that lead our country’s

582
00:41:14,000 –> 00:41:19,200
no matter what their perceived
quality might be But that sure

583
00:41:19,500 –> 00:41:23,700
was like a nail in the heart.
Right now.

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00:41:23,700 –> 00:41:29,700
That was a wise word, spoken
quietly.

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00:41:30,300 –> 00:41:35,200
So there’s an example of how
wise brothers and sisters help

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00:41:35,200 –> 00:41:38,800
us will end this session there
and I’ll only give you like

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seven minutes extra.