Mark Giordano – Class 4 – Comfort in Offense – Reconciliation in the Kingdom

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Brother, Mark, gr jono’s going
to be continuing his series, and

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his 1st Class is entitled
comfort in a fence

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reconciliation, in the Kingdom
for their mark.

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dear brothers and sisters,
there’s another Affliction,

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which is a little less spoken of
But a lot more experienced in

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life in the truth and that is
the Affliction, that requires a

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Reconciliation fence.
Fence is, is a broad term that

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can cover all manner of
offenses, some justifiable, and

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others, without any
justification, whatever in

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Christ, I mean.
No, that’s true.

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And yet, we are somehow
helplessly inexorably bound.

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To our nature and with our
nature, to the Affliction of

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offenses, there on all levels,
we can’t get away from the

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matter.
Of fact, what we experienced

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within is so much more intensive
without when you look for

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example, at government officials
or even Nations on a on a larger

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level at the way, offenses are
Batted back and forth and

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utilized exploited to the either
the literal assassination of the

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political assassination of
opponents.

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It’s astonishing and I think
knowing Christ and knowing what

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we do if human nature and the
fruits of the spirit we can

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we’ve managed to temper all
that.

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But we also experience in
ourselves that de tete,

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distasteful side of human nature
that we recognize is.

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So Overtly present in the
officials and fake personas of

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the world.
This is just what we bear in

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Christ and part of that conflict
comes from being in Christ and

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part of that.
Conflict comes from not having

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enough of Christ’s mine in us to
actually fulfill at a very high

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level, being of one mind and
judgment in Christ.

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There’s a lot of range in this
discussion so it is not meant to

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be critical.
It’s meant on the other hand to

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show by contrast as have all the
other afflictions that we’ve

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been speaking about in content
that the contrast between the

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Affliction of irreconcilable
differences and the

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reconciliation.
That is Promised in the Kingdom.

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I’d like to start today’s
consideration with a testimony

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of a very good friend of mine.
I met him when I was in college.

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But I didn’t meet him
personally.

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I met him because I read one of
his books.

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And when I read this book, I
became a close friend of his It

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was the book was England’s ruin.
I don’t know if any of you have

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ever even heard of that book is
a little-known book written by

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him brother Roberts in response
to a book that was written by a

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man, a mr.
Blachford, who was advocating

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socialism as the Cure of
everything was wrong with, not

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only the Society of the the
British Empire, but the all the

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societies of the world and
Robert Roberts read his book

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which was entitled.
Merry England.

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And and it frosted his brain.
So in typical fashion which was

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more fashionable in those times
that it is in this, he wrote a

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book called England’s ruin and
which he directly addressed mr.

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Blachford repeatedly, by using
his name.

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Mr. Blachford.
And I don’t know how he said it,

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but I think it was something
like that.

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And, and on, and on he went and
and I read this book and it just

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I don’t know got into me and I
was in college and I had just

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read Catcher in the Rye.
And it kind of reset my

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relationship to my education.
I don’t know.

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Those of you who had to read as
required reading in English. 101

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is, I did in college, Catcher in
the Rye, but it was such

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insipid.
Filth has such a ridiculous

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attempt at finding meaning in
the meaninglessness of the

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wisdom of this world.
That when I read England’s ruin

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in contrast to it and the
incredible defense of the truth

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that he was making that, that
may in contrast to be made, so

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much more sense than anything
I’d arrived outside of the

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profanity of, or excuse me.
In addition, to the profanity in

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Catcher, in the Rye that I made
up my mind in my freshman year

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in college that from now on, I
was going to ignore all the

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syllabus is that they gave me On
books to read in my various

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classes on anthropology and
sociology and psychology and

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simply read what I wanted to
read from our own literature

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relate that to the subject at
hand and then do all my my

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essays and my feces on the books
on crystal be literature

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related, to anthropology and
sociology and psychology.

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And in one class I almost
flunked the class gave me a d

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and took me Away from my Magna
cume graduation to just come

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Lauda.
But in another class in

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Psychology, I wrote the same
essay derived from Robert

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Roberts writings and his tone
and his disposition and the

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wisdom of God’s word applied to
the things of this world and

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that class the professor came
and he said one student has

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introduced me to a new form of
activism than I did not know in

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this world.
I have never discovered to him.

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That was a big Discovery and
that Isn’t of course is the

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truth as it presents itself to
the world.

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In a conflicting message, a
message that is unnatural and

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unwanted in the ears of worldly
men and women.

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So he said this this new form of
activism was so well put that I

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felt like giving an a quadruple
plus however he said no one in

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my class including myself, could
get floor for pluses after an A,

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so I have reduced it to an a
triple Plus Yes, and that’s the

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great and that was my essay that
I flunked in sociology and stood

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out in Psychology.
So it was my friend, Robert

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Roberts.
Who.

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Who gave me that wonderful
introduction to Passion that can

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be there in our love of the
truth.

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The truth is really a passionate
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And the reason is that the it’s
a greater reality than the one

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we live in, we live in the world
as it is as men have made it.

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And it’s reality enough, isn’t
it?

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As a stark reality, a harsh
reality, a cruel reality.

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But a reality that also has in
it Concepts of sharing and love

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and familial relationships and
male-female relationships in the

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midst of all this suffering,
even heroism, the heroism of the

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world.
And the protection of the powers

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that be all these things is kind
of this mixed message, this

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irony that we live in, in the
reality of the world, with the

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reality of the truth.
That gives us the passion for it

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is a greater reality than that
because it’s going to, it’s the

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way that That God will take what
exists and reframe it.

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Remold, it reshape it into the
reality of his world, his

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kingdom, which will be the rule
of Christ in this world.

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When I saw that in this brother,
I hope this is a man, this is a

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man, I can identify with.
And so, after having read

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England’s ruin, I read many of
the other books.

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They’re in college, did reports
on them manage to get grades.

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The 60s by writing about
everything but what they wanted

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me to read and respond with it
was so loose and strange in the

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60s with teachers about justice
hallucinated as the students.

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In those days, if those of you
who were in college in the 60s,

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know what I’m referring to.
Those were the Timothy Leary

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days and they were Strange Days
in Deeds, but a good time to

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make good grades in college on
anything that would Dawn on you

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as being important to talk about
in your Your responses to those

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subjects.
So but this picture, if you look

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at it more closely you won’t see
a man that is full of passion.

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When I first saw this picture
and realize this is a few days

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before he died, it made me cry.
Made me cry because I saw in his

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face.
What I already knew was a

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problem with them.
He was always somehow embroiled

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in controversy, that was
controversy, his life was

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dedicated to avoiding and yet
irresistibly involved with This,

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this was a few days before he
fell asleep and when you look at

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his eyes, do you think that
looks like the excitement of

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passion about the truth?
The more likely the face of

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Christ as he was facing the
Pharisees or or Paul, when he

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was beaten up in the synagogues.
When he brought love to people

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and they responded with enmity,
If you’re christadelphians and

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you have a few years under your
belt, know, a little something

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about that.
It’s not really an indictment

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against anything, but the fact
that we are helplessly bound to

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our nature and in that working
in the field of the development

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of the mind of Christ in the
context of that particular

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Affliction which is what
developed the Lord himself in

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his relationship with a nation
and a particular area,

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priesthood, tin recognize the
Royal Majesty of the kingdom

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when it stood right in front of
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So, I discovered a few years
back when I was putting these

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things together a letter in the
middle of a book on other

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things, of course, a Delphine
writings, which was he entitled

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a letter to my enemies?
Why would he write such a thing?

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What would possess a man to
write a letter to his enemies?

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If you had enemies within or
without, would you send them a

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letter or would you?
In fact, not send them any more

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letters after all the letters
that you had attempted to send

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didn’t go anywhere?
More like where I was when I

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discovered his letter.
So I wondered the same thing.

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What would, what would possess a
man to write a letter to his

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enemies?
And I am certain after reading

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that that it was a desire to
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If you know anything about
Christ, you know, that we are in

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a Ministry of reconciliation.
Because we have joined with

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Christ in his ministry of
reconcile reconciliation, which

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in his case was the son of God,
reconciling the word, the world

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to God, that this man who was a
mediator between God and men,

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making this ladder between the
real Mercy Seat.

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In heaven, where the two
Caribbean have been replaced by

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God and his son to Earth, which
is, I believe the, the foot of

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that ladder is in the house of
God, which means, it comes down

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into our ecclesiology.
Life when we assemble together

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and come before the Throne of
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And this is the latter that
connects us is the Lord Jesus

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Christ, and that is his
reconciliation.

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So if what he when he died on
the cross he died to reconcile

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the world to his father and
ours, then becomes a Ministry of

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reconciliation.
Then it appears to me that the

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context of this Affliction in
our lives, the enmity, the

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misunderstandings, the offenses,
and judgments and the

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controversies.
We deal with that, seemed to be

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irreconcilable on one hand, but
we know our reconcilable on the

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other.
We have evidence that these

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controversies are
irreconcilable, then all of this

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is involved in training Us in
reconciliation because once we

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enter, the the Royal
administration of Christ in his

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kingdom, the whole goal of that
Kingdom that Throne will be to

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take a mortal world, which is
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He will be just as possessed of
human nature, then as it is now.

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But But Satan being bound up
using that Administration and

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that righteous law that proceeds
from the mouth of Our Lord, to

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reconcile the whole world to
him.

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In the Kingdom, that
reconciliation would be

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essentially will result in peace
on Earth and Goodwill toward

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men.
It will bless all the families

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of the earth so you can see what
an important intrinsic subject.

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It is to think about
reconciliation and

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Reconciliation, only.
Means anything in the context of

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irreconcilable differences of
variance, which is a fleshly

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work.
So I’m going to read to you some

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bits from his letter and make
some points as we go about each

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one.
Pete Rock at the outset of his

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letter, he recognized that
Christ is, is really in control.

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Even though when you get into a
controversy, don’t know that he

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is.
So he said I greet you in the

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best of good wishes, my greeting
may not be acceptable.

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It is nevertheless sincere.
And you can always already sense

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the sadness.
I assure you.

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He said I can pray and this, I
do rarely, do.

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I bend my knee before the maker
of us all without asking him to

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open your eyes to bring your
steps into pads of wisdom and

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love.
And when I read that, I think of

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Stephen who while he was being
stoned, ask God to open their

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eyes and he did, they may have
crucified him.

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But there were 3,000 added to
him in baptism on the day that

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they realized, that’s what they
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Even among them, the Apostle
Paul who held the garments while

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they stoned, Stephen was an
oppressor ass corner, but turned

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into one of those followers
because of this of this prayer

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to open their eyes.
And, you know, it’s been said,

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you’ve heard this before that,
the Apostle Paul had to go blind

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in order to open his eyes.
Such an interesting irony in his

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life.
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True of some of the rest of us
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He continues to say, expect
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That’s that’s the message for us
as we as we trace the feelings,

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he’s going through.
He says, when I was quite young,

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I was smitten with the beauty of
the popular dictum.

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That it was a good thing.
A thing to be aimed at have no

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enemies.
This is the goal of all

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politicians, of all people who
achieve, a great level of status

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in the world.
I worked under the power of this

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idea for a good while, but
having the Bible standard before

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me in all things, I came to see
this futility and to perceive

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the reason of the saying of
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Woe unto you when all men shall
speak.

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Well of you, that’s another one
of those great paradoxes, that

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Jesus introduces into our
reasoning to understand that the

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goal of being christ-like is not
to be so loving and wonderful

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with everyone that everyone
recognizes and he sees it.

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Although you may be that loving
and that wonderful with

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everyone.
You will have conflicts and

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enemies that he fears within
conflicts without and there is

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no way we can escape.
So we shouldn’t be surprised

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when all men don’t think very
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And all men has two areas of to
audiences those audiences

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without the hate you because you
follow Christ from the

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disposition of a worldly mind.
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within where, enmity occurs
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judgment and offenses that that
happened without meaning without

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rather intention.
So this point is to say and

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we’ll see this later.
Expect persecution not just from

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without but from within anybody
who’s lived the truth in a while

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knows that this is a feature of
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Then he says something about I
servants and Men Pleasers which

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to me is a very interesting set
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I servants and Men Pleasers.
He says I found it impossible to

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avoid giving offense best of
intentions.

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Well meaning full of principles
impossible to avoid giving

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offense and after many struggles
against the inevitable.

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I quietly and grimly surrendered
to the inevitable.

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I saw that I could not prevent
the making of enemies without

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becoming an eye servant and a
pleaser men.

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I therefore made up my mind to
accept, enmity sort of be

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resigned to it.
I do not mean Give up the idea

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of being friendly.
So I think that’s a sweet note

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to end on in this particular
paragraph, like not mean to give

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up the idea of being friendly,
but I found it inevitable that I

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would have enmity but focusing
on what he says in the middle

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there that’s in bold.
I could not prevent the making

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of enemies without becoming a
nicer banana men pleaser.

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This is the false Persona that
is used by men who are

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interested in their own status.
Has more than they are in

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principle in the following of
principles principles are the

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things that get you in trouble.
That is the basic idea of all

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the things that we learn from
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Those are principles.
They come to us in the form of

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stories of laws of Commandments
of testimonies of things that

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were written about of
circumstances, that meant were

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helplessly bound to like, King
David or like Paul.

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All these things are the things
that give us one principal after

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another without measure, Without
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Many principals, can you derive
from one story?

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They just keep on yielding
because the basic idea, apply to

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all manner of circumstances is
applicable in the form of

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principle.
Even though what happened in

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that specific circumstance, in
scripture may not be directly

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applicable to what you’re
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The principal is there?
The why the law of Moses may be

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obsolete in terms of its of its
indictment of sin?

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But it’s certainly not obsolete
in the form of principle.

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The principles are just an
endless barrel of meal for us in

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which we read this and we go,
well, that that apply to, this

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would say this.
And that’s the basic idea of

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what the law was trying to
convey, giving us an ongoing

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understanding of righteousness,
and that righteousness is of

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Great Value in our growth, in
the truth, and in the

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stabilization and piece of
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That’s what he’s saying.
And what my point is derived

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from that, if I can take a
principal from his letter and

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and offer it to you, is it is
not to let status override

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principle, that status is how we
look is our image to Brethren

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and sisters.
And if we’re all bound up in

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status and and we make
principles defer to status, then

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we’re going to fall into the
Trap of being the Servants of

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the way.
People see us that’s image.

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And pleases with men, if you
pleases of men, are you really

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pleasing?
God, you can carry that too far.

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We’re going to be talking about
that a bit later too and

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thinking you all you do is
please God and doesn’t matter

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what men think and you can go
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So in every respect, what we
talked about today has to be set

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in balance in the balance of
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And he speaks about hurtful
opposition’s that he experienced

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and I think like speaking for
myself, I know opposition well

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and I may be speaking to those
of you who have been around this

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block a few times.
You may know opposition, you may

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if you haven’t experienced it
directly to the things that

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you’ve asserted.
If you’re young and you haven’t

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experienced yet, there will be
opposition and if it’s not

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yours, you can look at the
Chris’s L feed community in and

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ask this question, is there
opposition?

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And once he’s you at that answer
is and a An undeniable, but very

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sad.
Yes, there is opposition and it

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seems to be way too strong, it’s
inordinate and it has caused

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divisions and splits of all
kinds resulting in many

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different fellowships and and
that in light of a basic

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principle to not let it there be
any Schism among us.

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We’re not supposed to say, I’m
of this.

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And I’m of that, and follow this
name and that name, or say, all

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I’m lying.
I’m above all that Christ.

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None of that is right but we’re
fellow Workers in a gospel.

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That is the only light in this
world.

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It’s a dim light.
It’s the reflection of the

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bright light of the sun is now
in the dark stage of the world,

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where only in the position of
the Moon, the bride of Christ.

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As with a reflected light, puts
the only light that exists in

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this world.
And that is the unity that

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exists between God and Christ,
which transfers to his bride as

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the in the form of one body and
produces a Unity between

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ourselves and Christ.
And that Unity is not designed

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to make us real happy.
It is designed to show people

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who don’t know the world.
That is the world that the world

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might know that thou Hast sent
me, because when the world looks

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at itself, all it sees is
conflict, this Unity variants

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politics fake, this false that.
And when they look at at the

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body of Christ, they are
supposed to see something that

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proves to them and it’s Unity
that does it.

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That’s what Jesus said in his
prayer in John.

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Dean proves to them that God has
a son that he sent his son into

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this world and the light that is
reflected from that.

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Sun’s bright light into this
dark, world is the light that

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only Unity can portray.
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So he says I’m not able to carry
myself toward you as I should

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desire, then in a moment of kind
of honesty he says because of

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chronic physical discomfort of
body.

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I’m sure known that and the
grimness begotten of collision

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with opposition collision with
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He felt like he was in a
collision, the opposition was so

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forceful and met with equal
strength, whatever.

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He Happened to be asserting at
the time, the constant action in

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one line of things.
I realized that I must appear a

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very repugnant person.
In your eyes, notwithstanding my

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strong desire and best efforts
to sustain a different part.

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So then he goes into the
importance of principal saying,

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please do not bring charges
about which I cannot own.

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Don’t don’t falsely accuse me.
So such an honest wise, please

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don’t do that to me.
That’s what Paul’s second letter

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to the Corinthians is all about,
as please don’t fall asleep.

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Is me.
We’ll see that in a minute.

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I do not and have not aimed at
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I enjoy not and never have
enjoyed the position to which

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circumstances have forced me.
Any arranging brother can say

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this.
Anybody that’s involved in

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reconciliation efforts can say
this.

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I enjoy not and never have
enjoyed the position in which

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circumstances have forced me.
When you are forced into a

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controversy is not an enjoyable
thing.

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It’s hard work, it’s exhausted
work.

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My father was a part of the
original reunions effort in

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North America in Chicago and he
used to come home, totally

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exhausted.
All he did was talk all weekend

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and he would come home and he
looked like he a soldier

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returning from the thick of
battle as face was all drawn as

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eyes were half shut and he would
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And in the report was that like
a man that like a sailor had no

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wind in it anymore.
He was so exhausted and that was

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from the work of reconciliation.
So then he says this, I enjoy

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not a never have enjoyed the
position into which

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circumstances have forced me and
I am anxious.

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This is the importance of
principle over status.

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I’m anxious only for the
ascendancy of principle.

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What an important thing to
understand, I’m anxious only for

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the ascendancy of principle,
this is what we do in our

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exhortations.
We focus our hearts on the

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principles that come from God’s
word and that has the ability to

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build us up together in love and
could and could hide me out of

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sight.
When they are exalted, in other

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words, it really isn’t about me.
It’s about the principles that

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we get that audience our
instruction in righteousness in

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this ministry of reconciliation.
And he goes into what Robert

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Roberts would inevitably go into
the importance of Truth.

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Men who rejoice in the truth.
Are not to be convinced a kind

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of confused with those in whom
personal elevation is a more

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controlling influence and that
again is this juxtaposition of

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status and image on one’s one.
And and the elevation of

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principles and self-sacrifice on
the other.

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People go into this.
These kinds of conflicts are

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self self sacrificial, they
endure.

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Everything that is concomitant
in a controversy because they

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are self-sacrificial.
It at the root, they are very

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humble men and may not sound
like it.

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When you listen to the, their
passion about the truth and

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their assertion of the
principles in the midst of

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controversy.
But these are very humble men

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and they have that same kind of
thing.

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They’re not Interested in
personal elevation.

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He goes on to say if I’ve been
compelled to take a prominent

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and offensive part, it has been
to my sorrow.

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So little has been a
satisfaction in the sense of

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your surmises.
Now, listen to what he says and

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tell me this isn’t what how how
Jesus felt how Paul felt, how

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many of the prophets felt and
may have been how you felt it is

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how I have felt So little has
been a satisfaction in the sense

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of your surmises that I have
felt the greatest kindness God

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could show me would be to lay
me.

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We’re all his servants rest.
while the present confusion

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Reigns upon the Earth, you can
feel this way when instead of

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when you give love and you
receive hatred in exchange for

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it.
Is this not exactly what Paul

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went through.
What the Lord himself went

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through?
They were applying love and

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receiving hatred and return.
That’s what Jesus said, your gut

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expect persecution.
And when you get it, jump up for

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Joy because your crown is
assured when you’re persecuted

436
00:27:38,300 –> 00:27:40,500
for righteousness.
Sake blessed, are you?

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He said, so then he goes into
the importance of Mercy, in the

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context of all of this which you
no mercy tends to be.

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00:27:47,200 –> 00:27:50,400
That thing that overrides,
everything that when there are

440
00:27:50,400 –> 00:27:53,500
irreconcilable differences, is a
mistake, you can mistakes and

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00:27:53,500 –> 00:27:54,900
sins.
You can avoid offenses in

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00:27:54,900 –> 00:28:00,200
judgment that RR e retrievable.
Mercy’s the thing that covers it

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00:28:00,200 –> 00:28:06,300
all and says, well, you know,
The best we can do in the end

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Christ will resolve all things
and that’s that’s the sense of

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00:28:09,500 –> 00:28:12,900
mercy and now he says, if my
whole work and my whole

446
00:28:12,900 –> 00:28:15,800
influence to promote the truth
in public and in private in

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00:28:15,800 –> 00:28:20,000
theory and in practice ought,
you not to be merciful to what

448
00:28:20,100 –> 00:28:23,300
you may consider my infirmities.
This is like a very earnestly

449
00:28:23,300 –> 00:28:25,500
feels, you know.
Like if I have an infirmity and

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00:28:25,500 –> 00:28:29,500
if that comes across to you as
an offense, shouldn’t you be

451
00:28:29,500 –> 00:28:33,400
merciful with me very
straightforward, kind of I’d

452
00:28:33,400 –> 00:28:36,400
like appeal.
I know, please understand you

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00:28:36,400 –> 00:28:39,500
not to help this is where he’s
he is right?

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In the midst of Paul’s message
in his first letter to the

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Corinthians when he says I am
you know, you shouldn’t be

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00:28:45,100 –> 00:28:48,900
saying I’m appalled, I’m of
Apollo’s but we are fellow

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workers in Christ were
coworkers.

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There’s a job that Jesus gave us
to do a return on his investment

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and we should be working
together to bring him that

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return.
Not just individually, not just

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in the midst of schismatic
differences.

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But together, Either put the
emphasis on the work in the

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00:29:05,500 –> 00:29:08,300
schisms will disappear.
Same thing, true for

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00:29:08,300 –> 00:29:10,200
christadelphians.
We’ve got a gospel that the

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world is ignorant of how many
people have you talked to in

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00:29:13,000 –> 00:29:15,100
your life that never heard
anything about the kingdom,

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00:29:15,100 –> 00:29:17,900
ever?
Not one word about the kingdom.

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Has they’re blind to it as if as
if the kingdom is something that

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exists on another planet and and
hasn’t even come to us in the

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form of a message.
The very fact when Robert

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Roberts came to Norfolk, they
put an ad in the paper that

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00:29:30,200 –> 00:29:32,400
said, I’m mr.
Roberts has is going to give a

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00:29:32,408 –> 00:29:36,400
talk where he proposes that the
Bible.

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He proposes to show from the
Bible that the kingdom of God

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00:29:39,800 –> 00:29:43,900
will be on the earth.
So strange a headline that they

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00:29:43,900 –> 00:29:46,700
knew that would be in the ears
of its audience.

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00:29:47,500 –> 00:29:52,600
So that kingdom is the key to
everything for us.

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00:29:52,600 –> 00:29:55,000
That’s our hope that’s the
reality and that’s what we’re

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looking for.
So he his appeal is to their

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00:29:59,900 –> 00:30:05,600
mercy and he says speaking to
people, he’s trying to get to

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understand should be his
co-workers ought you not help in

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00:30:11,400 –> 00:30:14,200
any way.
I taught you not to put your

483
00:30:14,200 –> 00:30:16,800
investment with the bankers.
If you don’t have enough talent

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00:30:16,800 –> 00:30:20,300
to produce the Vestment of
return on the investment

485
00:30:20,300 –> 00:30:24,500
yourself or not to help in any
way in your power instead of

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00:30:24,500 –> 00:30:28,100
trying to weaken and hinder by
unfriendly words and deeds.

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00:30:29,700 –> 00:30:32,500
So this is something, you know,
how we’ve said repeatedly,

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there’s a theme that’s been
running in the background of all

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our remarks this weekend and
that is that God has already

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addressed this.
He knows what we are made out of

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00:30:39,500 –> 00:30:42,100
he made us himself.
He knows what we go through in

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00:30:42,100 –> 00:30:45,100
life and he’s already addressed
in advance.

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00:30:45,100 –> 00:30:48,000
The things that we need to
understand things come up.

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00:30:48,000 –> 00:30:54,100
So he says, listen to me, you
who know righteousness, You

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00:30:54,100 –> 00:30:57,500
people in whose heart is my
lawn?

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00:30:57,500 –> 00:31:00,200
All those are, this is from
Isaiah, what God is referring to

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00:31:00,400 –> 00:31:04,300
is you people who have the Lord
Jesus Christ in your heart

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00:31:04,300 –> 00:31:05,600
because this is the New
Covenant.

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00:31:05,600 –> 00:31:09,100
He, speaking of, I will take my
word and write it upon your

500
00:31:09,100 –> 00:31:11,100
heart.
It’s not a longing to be some

501
00:31:11,100 –> 00:31:13,100
external law.
I’m going to take it and

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00:31:13,100 –> 00:31:17,300
internalize it in every follower
of my son, you people who know

503
00:31:17,300 –> 00:31:19,400
righteousness people in whose
heart is my law.

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00:31:19,700 –> 00:31:24,300
Do not fear the reproach of men,
it will I follow but don’t be

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00:31:24,300 –> 00:31:27,900
afraid of it or be afraid of
their insults for the moth.

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00:31:27,900 –> 00:31:31,700
Will eat them up like a garment
and the worm will eat them up

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00:31:31,700 –> 00:31:34,000
like wool.
But my righteousness will be

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00:31:34,000 –> 00:31:36,800
forever and my salvation from
generation to generation.

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00:31:37,500 –> 00:31:42,400
I even, I am he, who comforts
you, when you are afflicted in

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00:31:42,400 –> 00:31:46,400
controversy and enmity, but
there’s an inversion, of the

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00:31:46,400 –> 00:31:49,100
point, the principle here is one
of reassurance.

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This is don’t be afraid.
I’m with you.

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00:31:51,100 –> 00:31:54,800
My word is in your heart.
There’s an assurance there, but

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00:31:54,800 –> 00:31:58,000
there’s also an indictment
against the people that that run

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00:31:58,000 –> 00:32:02,600
the unanimity, so which one are
you?

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00:32:04,100 –> 00:32:07,500
When are you going to be the one
who was a co-worker is very busy

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00:32:07,500 –> 00:32:10,100
with the gospel, almost too busy
with the gospel to get involved

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00:32:10,100 –> 00:32:14,500
with controversies but
irresistibly drawn into

519
00:32:14,500 –> 00:32:17,700
controversies, in an effort to
find, peace to reconcile to

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00:32:17,700 –> 00:32:20,700
bring people together to, in
fact, be one of those

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00:32:20,700 –> 00:32:24,400
peacemakers that the Lord has
blessed in the Beatitudes.

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00:32:25,300 –> 00:32:33,100
Or are you one of these?
Who bring the reproach of men,

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00:32:33,200 –> 00:32:36,800
you know, Psalm 15 queries, who
will climb, Holy Hill of the

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00:32:36,800 –> 00:32:40,300
Lord was going to be there and
become a part of that Royal

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00:32:40,300 –> 00:32:44,200
Administration in the interior
where the sacrifices are offered

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00:32:44,200 –> 00:32:46,700
by Christ and those who prepare
them.

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00:32:47,900 –> 00:32:51,300
Well, one of the things he says
and Antony answer that question

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00:32:51,300 –> 00:32:56,400
is who lifts up who takes not up
a reproach against his brother?

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So, there are people who take up
reproaches and there are people

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00:33:00,600 –> 00:33:04,300
who feel reproaches.
Which one would you like to be

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00:33:05,200 –> 00:33:08,900
as a lot of studious
self-discipline in the answer to

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00:33:08,900 –> 00:33:13,700
that question or not?
Let’s take a closer look to the

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00:33:13,708 –> 00:33:15,500
second letter of the
Corinthians.

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We’ve already seen this.
I’m not going to bother to read

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00:33:18,000 –> 00:33:20,100
the introduction again.
We’ve seen it three times four

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00:33:20,100 –> 00:33:23,000
times already.
You know what he says he’s

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00:33:23,000 –> 00:33:24,400
speaking about the God of
comfort.

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00:33:24,400 –> 00:33:27,300
He mentions comfort as many
times as he do, and he also

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00:33:27,600 –> 00:33:30,800
speaks about Affliction.
But in Paul’s case the suffering

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00:33:30,800 –> 00:33:33,800
and affliction that he endured
wasn’t the kind, we were

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00:33:33,800 –> 00:33:39,000
speaking about except maybe in
indirectly he did receive abuse

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00:33:39,100 –> 00:33:42,000
at the hands of hostile Jews in
the synagogues.

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00:33:42,500 –> 00:33:46,200
But it was more the Affliction
that came from controversy, from

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00:33:46,200 –> 00:33:49,500
making his appeal to Felix and
thinking feel it’s responding

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00:33:49,500 –> 00:33:53,800
thinking of Paul was a crazy man
or trying to convince the Jews

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00:33:53,800 –> 00:33:58,100
and get getting beaten up or
ultimately getting thrown in

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00:33:58,100 –> 00:34:01,000
prison, or writing to the
Corinthians the saying, you

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00:34:01,000 –> 00:34:03,900
know, like I’ve or the Galatians
saying, you know, you foolish

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00:34:03,900 –> 00:34:07,300
Galatians, who has Bewitched
you, there’s another gospel,

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00:34:07,300 –> 00:34:09,699
who’s changing the gospel of
Christ, in the something that’s

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00:34:09,699 –> 00:34:12,400
distorted and then it’s The
gospel anymore.

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00:34:12,800 –> 00:34:15,300
So if unifier an angel of
Heaven, preach to you, any other

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00:34:15,300 –> 00:34:17,800
gospel than that, which of which
we have preached, let him be

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00:34:17,800 –> 00:34:19,300
accursed.
There’s nothing.

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00:34:19,300 –> 00:34:24,100
But but anathema to the gospel
to distort it.

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Those were the areas in which
called Paul experienced the

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00:34:29,000 –> 00:34:31,199
Affliction.
He speaking about and in the

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00:34:31,199 –> 00:34:34,300
second letter it was
specifically the Affliction

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00:34:34,300 –> 00:34:38,300
impose on in of criticism that
came from the accout from those

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00:34:38,300 –> 00:34:41,100
his opposers in the Corinthian
Ackley.

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00:34:41,300 –> 00:34:43,199
Asia.
After his first letter, he sent

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00:34:43,199 –> 00:34:45,900
them a letter he meant.
Well it hurt them really bad.

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00:34:45,900 –> 00:34:48,800
They finally resolve the
problems on it, if they resolve

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00:34:48,800 –> 00:34:52,000
the the schisms.
But out of that first letter

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00:34:52,000 –> 00:34:56,800
came, a lot of fault-finding and
false accusation against Paul.

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00:34:57,300 –> 00:35:01,200
And that’s what the second
letter he was compelled to write

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00:35:01,800 –> 00:35:05,700
in order to address it.
It’s interesting in the second

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00:35:05,700 –> 00:35:08,000
letter, he was forced into
self-defense.

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00:35:08,400 –> 00:35:11,900
He didn’t want to defend himself
and he kept saying, I speak as a

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00:35:11,900 –> 00:35:14,100
fool, but I’m going to post a
little bit about what I did

571
00:35:14,100 –> 00:35:15,700
here.
What I did there, look at what

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00:35:15,700 –> 00:35:17,400
I’m doing.
Look at how much I love you.

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Jesus made the same appeal to
the people that put the enmity

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00:35:21,900 –> 00:35:25,000
against him when he said.
If you don’t believe my words,

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00:35:25,000 –> 00:35:27,500
believe my works.
Why won’t you believe me?

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00:35:27,600 –> 00:35:31,100
These are not my words.
He would say in self-defense.

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00:35:31,300 –> 00:35:33,800
These are the words of my father
listened to them.

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00:35:34,000 –> 00:35:37,500
They come You threw me from God,
the god that you say, you

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00:35:37,500 –> 00:35:41,800
worship at her ignoring, when he
stands in front of you, like

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00:35:41,800 –> 00:35:45,300
Jesus, like Paul, sometimes we
can be forced and Robert

581
00:35:45,300 –> 00:35:46,900
Roberts.
Was also forced into

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00:35:46,900 –> 00:35:50,900
self-defense and pole resorts to
boasting 29, times in his second

583
00:35:50,900 –> 00:35:52,500
letter.
And this was brought to my

584
00:35:52,500 –> 00:35:55,400
attention by Brother Roberts in
the context of his letter to his

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00:35:55,400 –> 00:35:58,300
enemies.
What caused the conflict in

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00:35:58,300 –> 00:36:02,600
Corinth?
Well, the first letter is

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00:36:02,600 –> 00:36:05,000
involved with Discord and
dissipation.

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00:36:06,600 –> 00:36:09,500
But isn’t that not what Jesus
said, we would be dealing with,

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00:36:09,800 –> 00:36:12,900
especially not in Paul’s time
and yet, he, it was introduced

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00:36:12,900 –> 00:36:15,100
in his time.
But it’s carried through all the

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00:36:15,100 –> 00:36:19,700
way to our times, where it’s it
have an extreme level Discord

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00:36:19,800 –> 00:36:23,400
and dissipation are the two
things Jesus identified, which

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00:36:23,400 –> 00:36:25,900
would be present in the
vineyard.

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00:36:26,600 –> 00:36:31,000
When the delay of his coming was
being experienced as we are

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00:36:31,000 –> 00:36:34,200
experiencing it right now,
they’re in the delay.

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00:36:34,600 –> 00:36:36,300
Everybody expected to become a
whole lot earlier.

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00:36:36,400 –> 00:36:39,800
Earlier than he ever has come so
far and that is the delay.

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00:36:39,800 –> 00:36:42,800
And in that delay, there are two
principal things that Jesus

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00:36:42,800 –> 00:36:46,300
identified would be the cause
the root cause of the trouble in

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00:36:46,300 –> 00:36:49,000
his Vineyard and they were
Discord and dissipation.

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00:36:49,600 –> 00:36:52,700
This is the way he characterizes
his Ecclesia, his household in

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00:36:52,700 –> 00:36:56,200
the in the last days of before
he comes.

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00:36:56,500 –> 00:36:59,900
If that Wicked servant says to
himself, my master is delayed.

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00:37:01,500 –> 00:37:04,100
And begins to beat his fellow
servants.

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00:37:04,500 –> 00:37:07,500
So there’s a relationship
between Jesus not coming back

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00:37:07,500 –> 00:37:12,100
yet and the disposition of
people in his Vineyard going

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00:37:12,800 –> 00:37:19,300
going wrong, getting hostile and
oppositional, and defiant.

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00:37:22,000 –> 00:37:24,300
If he begins to beat his fellow
servants, I don’t think this

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00:37:24,300 –> 00:37:26,000
necessarily means literal
beatings.

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00:37:26,000 –> 00:37:29,300
I think it’s the beatings of
controversy, the beatings of

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00:37:29,300 –> 00:37:32,800
words of offenses and judgments
as they beat Upon Our Hearts.

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00:37:33,500 –> 00:37:37,000
And make us feel like our lives
are ruined because of them.

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00:37:37,500 –> 00:37:41,100
That’s the Discord.
Would you say there’s Discord in

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00:37:41,100 –> 00:37:43,900
the last days?
And the vineyard have you ever

615
00:37:43,900 –> 00:37:48,200
seen this court would Jesus?
Was there in advance?

616
00:37:48,200 –> 00:37:50,200
Wasn’t he speaking about our
times?

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00:37:50,500 –> 00:37:54,100
He said, well expect this don’t
be surprised when this happens

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00:37:55,000 –> 00:37:58,300
and who eats and drinks with
drunkards.

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00:37:59,000 –> 00:38:00,800
I’m not going to go into it
right here.

620
00:38:01,800 –> 00:38:06,600
Just think for a minute, what a
probing indictment in the

621
00:38:06,600 –> 00:38:09,600
vineyard that must be in the
last days.

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00:38:09,700 –> 00:38:13,000
Days before he returns.
Would you say there’s a problem?

623
00:38:14,800 –> 00:38:21,500
Eating and drinking.
With dissipated people.

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00:38:24,100 –> 00:38:26,200
Don’t necessarily have to be in
the bar with them.

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00:38:26,200 –> 00:38:30,600
Do you anymore?
They’re accessible in all points

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00:38:31,200 –> 00:38:34,400
worldwide there.
Dissipation is everywhere.

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00:38:34,400 –> 00:38:38,000
Present in our lives.
It’s just a click away.

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00:38:39,200 –> 00:38:41,700
Would you say this is a problem?
I’m sure it is.

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00:38:42,300 –> 00:38:45,000
I’m so, are you?
We’re not in any disagreement on

630
00:38:45,000 –> 00:38:46,800
this point.
You live in this world, you know

631
00:38:46,800 –> 00:38:48,800
what I’m saying?
We don’t need to probe it too

632
00:38:48,800 –> 00:38:52,800
deeply, but these are the two
things that Jesus said are part

633
00:38:52,800 –> 00:38:56,300
of the delay, the characteristic
of the delay, I they may in part

634
00:38:56,300 –> 00:39:00,200
be caused by the delay, but they
are also the conditions that we

635
00:39:00,200 –> 00:39:03,000
specifically are dealing with in
the vineyard.

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00:39:03,000 –> 00:39:05,400
This is respective to The
Vineyards.

637
00:39:05,400 –> 00:39:08,800
Bad enough in the world but
think of it if it’s safe.

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00:39:09,000 –> 00:39:13,200
Being into the vineyard.
And then of offenses in

639
00:39:13,200 –> 00:39:17,300
judgments in his second letter,
he says this for his letters,

640
00:39:17,300 –> 00:39:20,500
they say are weighty and
Powerful.

641
00:39:20,700 –> 00:39:23,700
So that was what the people that
were Pro Paul’s Point were

642
00:39:23,700 –> 00:39:27,000
saying.
So that’s that’s the offense

643
00:39:27,000 –> 00:39:28,800
like is letters.
You know, they’re waiting and

644
00:39:28,800 –> 00:39:32,900
Powerful to us.
It’s offencive, but now they’re

645
00:39:32,908 –> 00:39:34,700
going to make a judgment as well
as bodily.

646
00:39:34,700 –> 00:39:39,500
Presence is weak is speech.
Contemptible listen, anything

647
00:39:39,500 –> 00:39:43,300
Paul says.
So that’s, that’s the Judgment,

648
00:39:43,400 –> 00:39:45,500
it’s offenses in judgments.
And if you think about it and

649
00:39:45,500 –> 00:39:49,200
the controversies of
christadelphians at the root,

650
00:39:49,200 –> 00:39:53,200
there may be a serious problem
with a doctrine that is wrong,

651
00:39:53,700 –> 00:39:55,800
when we all love the truth.
And We’re Protectors of the

652
00:39:55,808 –> 00:39:57,400
truth, we’re Defenders of the
truth.

653
00:39:57,600 –> 00:40:00,100
The truth is the is our Hallmark
in this world.

654
00:40:00,100 –> 00:40:03,000
That’s the thing that energizes
and sustains us through time.

655
00:40:04,200 –> 00:40:07,000
But is that all that the
controversies are involved with

656
00:40:07,000 –> 00:40:10,000
the just, you know, discussions
about what’s true and what’s not

657
00:40:10,000 –> 00:40:13,200
true in the midst of a
controversy emotions, get

658
00:40:13,200 –> 00:40:15,800
aroused and they are fleshly,
there’s variance.

659
00:40:15,800 –> 00:40:18,400
And there’s an emulation, is a
lot of other negative emotions

660
00:40:18,400 –> 00:40:22,400
and fleshly responses and these
cause offenses and judgments.

661
00:40:23,100 –> 00:40:25,800
What I mean by that is people
will say Do things that are

662
00:40:25,800 –> 00:40:28,900
offensive to others.
They may not mean to be, but

663
00:40:28,900 –> 00:40:32,700
they are they work out that way
and then there are differences

664
00:40:32,700 –> 00:40:34,400
in judgment.
All you have to do is sit on

665
00:40:34,400 –> 00:40:37,300
arranging board to know the
differences.

666
00:40:37,700 –> 00:40:39,600
What?
Differences in judgment are like

667
00:40:40,000 –> 00:40:42,700
and or One Ecclesia versus
another occasion.

668
00:40:42,700 –> 00:40:46,000
A difference in judgment there
or one fellowship and another

669
00:40:46,000 –> 00:40:47,800
fellowship and a difference in
judgment.

670
00:40:47,800 –> 00:40:51,200
Their offenses and judgment are
at the root of it all and first

671
00:40:51,200 –> 00:40:54,200
and second Corinthians are all
about offenses in judgment.

672
00:40:54,200 –> 00:40:56,800
You want to find out Out what
we’re dealing with now in

673
00:40:56,800 –> 00:41:00,600
Discord, anticipation, read 1st
and 2nd Corinthians again and

674
00:41:00,600 –> 00:41:03,400
you’ll understand it in the
context of offenses in judgment.

675
00:41:04,800 –> 00:41:06,900
So they made these judgments
about Paul’s going to bullet

676
00:41:06,900 –> 00:41:09,700
through these pretty quickly
without getting into, we’re so

677
00:41:09,700 –> 00:41:12,900
much where they are, if put
these in the references so that

678
00:41:12,900 –> 00:41:15,300
you can get the PDFs and look at
it for yourself.

679
00:41:15,300 –> 00:41:20,900
But the his opposers in the
Corinthian, Ecclesia suede, many

680
00:41:20,900 –> 00:41:25,400
people, many Brethren against
Paul to the extent that after

681
00:41:25,400 –> 00:41:27,600
that and after his other
conflicts and other equations.

682
00:41:27,600 –> 00:41:31,900
By the time he was incarcerated
in Rome and and put down on his

683
00:41:31,900 –> 00:41:34,400
knees in front of a Roman
Centurion.

684
00:41:34,400 –> 00:41:36,700
Who And cut his head off to
execute him.

685
00:41:37,800 –> 00:41:41,000
He was all.
But left alone, he was all but

686
00:41:41,000 –> 00:41:46,000
abandoned.
So so Furious was the opposition

687
00:41:46,000 –> 00:41:51,800
that came against him and this
was recognized by Paul, in his

688
00:41:51,800 –> 00:41:55,100
letter to the Corinthians.
So they said well, he said he

689
00:41:55,107 –> 00:41:56,400
was going to come and he didn’t
come.

690
00:41:56,400 –> 00:41:58,200
He’s he says yes.
Then he says no.

691
00:41:58,200 –> 00:41:59,900
Then he says yes, and he says
knows it.

692
00:41:59,900 –> 00:42:03,000
Can anybody understand what Paul
is getting at one day?

693
00:42:03,000 –> 00:42:04,500
It’s yes.
Next day, it’s no.

694
00:42:04,600 –> 00:42:07,300
No.
And you know as insipid as that

695
00:42:07,300 –> 00:42:12,900
sounds it hurt Paul.
They accused him of changing his

696
00:42:12,900 –> 00:42:14,300
plans.
Meaning like the guys

697
00:42:14,300 –> 00:42:17,400
unreliable, if he’s unreliable
in his plans.

698
00:42:17,600 –> 00:42:19,400
Why would you listen to his
advice?

699
00:42:20,000 –> 00:42:22,100
You just generally unreliable in
the plans.

700
00:42:22,100 –> 00:42:24,600
Prove it so way.
The devil worked picks.

701
00:42:24,600 –> 00:42:27,900
One thing up to wrongfully
accused someone of something

702
00:42:27,900 –> 00:42:36,100
else as he was a coward.
He corrupted the word.

703
00:42:36,400 –> 00:42:40,200
You know, well, not according to
Paul, he goes to Great Lengths.

704
00:42:40,200 –> 00:42:43,300
In the said, second letter to
prove not, he wasn’t corrupting.

705
00:42:43,300 –> 00:42:49,100
He was exalting the word.
You lack the support of the

706
00:42:49,100 –> 00:42:53,000
people in Authority, maybe some
of the leaders in the equations.

707
00:42:53,600 –> 00:42:56,100
He was dishonest.
These are actually the things

708
00:42:56,100 –> 00:42:59,800
they said about the Apostle Paul
this man that we love for his,

709
00:43:00,100 –> 00:43:05,500
his fervor in the truth.
So he made this appeal to them.

710
00:43:05,500 –> 00:43:07,600
He said, no, I plead with you
Brethren by the name of our

711
00:43:07,607 –> 00:43:09,900
Lord.
Jesus Christ that you all speak.

712
00:43:09,900 –> 00:43:14,000
The same thing work to find the
same mind in judgment.

713
00:43:14,000 –> 00:43:17,200
That you’d be no divisions among
you, but that ye be perfectly

714
00:43:17,200 –> 00:43:20,800
joined together in the same mind
and the same judgment.

715
00:43:20,900 –> 00:43:25,900
And this doesn’t only apply to
life and enter a collegial

716
00:43:25,900 –> 00:43:29,000
relationships or enter
Fellowship relationships.

717
00:43:29,200 –> 00:43:32,800
This also applies inside and
Ecclesia, within in the

718
00:43:32,900 –> 00:43:34,900
Brothers, in the equation, in
particular, in the brothers in

719
00:43:34,900 –> 00:43:37,000
the arranging board.
It’s been said that if your

720
00:43:37,000 –> 00:43:39,100
ranging board is divided, the
Ecclesia will divide.

721
00:43:39,400 –> 00:43:41,600
I think you could look into
history and find that to be

722
00:43:41,600 –> 00:43:46,100
pretty much a pattern that is
recognizable in our community.

723
00:43:46,400 –> 00:43:50,000
So his appeal comes back and he
says be of the same mind and the

724
00:43:50,000 –> 00:43:55,000
same judgment.
But that Is not natural.

725
00:43:56,300 –> 00:43:58,100
Is this a wonderful
illustration?

726
00:43:59,700 –> 00:44:02,600
Of men.
Maybe some women too.

727
00:44:02,600 –> 00:44:06,800
There will be a caddy but man,
this is what men do they either.

728
00:44:06,800 –> 00:44:10,500
Do it in the ring, Ultimate
Fighting or whatever, or they

729
00:44:10,500 –> 00:44:14,600
box each other or they compete
in business and they’re ruthless

730
00:44:14,600 –> 00:44:18,300
or they assassinate each other
politically or they get at it

731
00:44:18,300 –> 00:44:22,500
with differences in judgment on
spiritual matters.

732
00:44:22,800 –> 00:44:25,700
And is it not all the same
thing?

733
00:44:26,400 –> 00:44:31,600
It’s competition, it’s vying for
status, it’s seeing who’s Got

734
00:44:31,600 –> 00:44:35,800
the stronger intellectual are
more theological arm and so they

735
00:44:35,800 –> 00:44:38,200
sit there and they go this way
and they go that way and

736
00:44:38,200 –> 00:44:41,500
sometimes the arms break under
the stress.

737
00:44:41,800 –> 00:44:47,400
It is not natural.
To have saying this in mind and

738
00:44:47,400 –> 00:44:50,600
that’s because it’s spiritual.
All the things that we are

739
00:44:50,600 –> 00:44:54,700
called to In Christ.
Have his mind is spiritual and

740
00:44:54,700 –> 00:44:58,600
being spiritual takes work that
runs against our grain.

741
00:44:58,600 –> 00:45:04,400
That’s why we say it’s not
natural, naturally were sown in

742
00:45:04,400 –> 00:45:08,400
dishonor.
Spiritually were raised in

743
00:45:08,400 –> 00:45:10,800
glory.
So this is you know kind of like

744
00:45:10,800 –> 00:45:14,100
the plight of human nature
regardless of whether we want it

745
00:45:14,100 –> 00:45:14,900
to be that way.
Or not.

746
00:45:14,900 –> 00:45:20,600
This is the way life is going to
go over briefly offenses in

747
00:45:20,600 –> 00:45:23,400
judgment specifically, Discord
and disagreement, and variance

748
00:45:23,400 –> 00:45:28,400
and emulation and show you what
it is that that produces this

749
00:45:28,400 –> 00:45:34,700
disposition to the extent in
Brothers, where it offsets, a

750
00:45:34,700 –> 00:45:38,300
spiritual disposition, much more
natural to go into this realm

751
00:45:39,100 –> 00:45:44,300
and maybe not even realize it.
That’s what Jesus said about

752
00:45:44,300 –> 00:45:47,200
offenses in judgments that
preparest a table before me,

753
00:45:47,200 –> 00:45:50,700
that is the table of
reconciliation that table, which

754
00:45:50,700 –> 00:45:54,000
we use to show that we’re
unified in Christ.

755
00:45:54,500 –> 00:45:58,900
We have a common Union in our
communion and it represents our

756
00:45:58,900 –> 00:46:01,100
unity in Christ.
It represents our fellowship for

757
00:46:01,100 –> 00:46:03,900
all the more important to be of
the same mind and judgment

758
00:46:03,900 –> 00:46:07,000
doctrinally and the way that
Doctrine is practiced very, very

759
00:46:07,000 –> 00:46:09,900
important to us.
And it’s right for us to assign

760
00:46:09,900 –> 00:46:12,700
the level of apartments that we
do to it but it is wrong.

761
00:46:12,800 –> 00:46:17,000
For us to carry it over into
extreme inordinate controversy,

762
00:46:17,700 –> 00:46:19,800
the things about it, that are
right, things about it, that are

763
00:46:19,800 –> 00:46:23,800
wrong, we all know that.
And that’s the difficult work

764
00:46:23,800 –> 00:46:26,900
that we have in producing
reconciliation in this context,

765
00:46:27,300 –> 00:46:31,600
Jesus preparation of a table was
in the presence of his enemies.

766
00:46:32,400 –> 00:46:34,900
And I think that follows through
with the Lord Jesus Christ, as

767
00:46:34,900 –> 00:46:36,800
he is present among us even to
this day.

768
00:46:37,200 –> 00:46:41,200
It’s in the midst of enemies.
However, you want to whatever

769
00:46:41,200 –> 00:46:46,600
level you want to use that term.
In your understanding of what

770
00:46:46,600 –> 00:46:48,700
Robert Robert said about the
record of the cliche of life

771
00:46:48,700 –> 00:46:51,100
seems to be one of constant
controversy.

772
00:46:52,900 –> 00:46:55,000
So should that make you
discourage and that make you

773
00:46:55,000 –> 00:46:58,400
say, well, I don’t need this
turn around and walk out the

774
00:46:58,400 –> 00:46:59,600
door.
I quit.

775
00:47:00,200 –> 00:47:03,900
Is that the response that we’re
supposed to make to the record

776
00:47:03,900 –> 00:47:06,700
of occlusal Life?
What would we have done?

777
00:47:06,800 –> 00:47:11,000
If Jesus had done that, he
turned around and walked out of

778
00:47:11,000 –> 00:47:13,700
Israel saying I quit and he
could have done that any Time.

779
00:47:14,000 –> 00:47:16,400
Well, we don’t have done.
If Paul had done that Paul, let

780
00:47:16,400 –> 00:47:21,200
himself get beat up.
He was so he understood the

781
00:47:21,200 –> 00:47:26,300
principle of the tenacity of
bringing unnatural feelings, to

782
00:47:26,300 –> 00:47:29,700
spiritual feelings, in the midst
of these controversies in the

783
00:47:29,700 –> 00:47:31,800
Ecclesia.
So he was persistent.

784
00:47:31,800 –> 00:47:34,900
He was indomitable, you couldn’t
stop, he had to cut off his head

785
00:47:34,900 –> 00:47:37,500
to stop him yet to crucify
Christ to stop him.

786
00:47:38,000 –> 00:47:39,200
What is it?
That will stop you.

787
00:47:39,200 –> 00:47:41,000
You should have that kind of
tenacity.

788
00:47:41,500 –> 00:47:43,300
You should stay there and do
everything you can.

789
00:47:43,400 –> 00:47:45,700
And all your life working with
all of this that we’re talking

790
00:47:45,700 –> 00:47:48,100
about.
You know, it as well as I do in

791
00:47:48,100 –> 00:47:50,500
the midst of something, we
should expect.

792
00:47:50,800 –> 00:47:53,000
This is something.
This is not a strange thing.

793
00:47:53,300 –> 00:47:57,000
This is something Jesus Promised
would be existent in his

794
00:47:57,000 –> 00:47:59,900
household, especially in the
last days and just Discord

795
00:47:59,900 –> 00:48:03,300
anticipation.
So fences, come from hatred.

796
00:48:03,800 –> 00:48:06,400
It’s not just like, well
intellectually, I find that so

797
00:48:06,400 –> 00:48:10,800
offensive.
They come the offense as it is

798
00:48:11,600 –> 00:48:13,600
asserted in animals.
Action.

799
00:48:13,600 –> 00:48:16,400
Many times false against a
brother comes from hatred.

800
00:48:16,400 –> 00:48:20,300
And hatred comes from something
just can’t stand.

801
00:48:21,000 –> 00:48:23,300
It doesn’t come from, just
differences in judgment.

802
00:48:23,300 –> 00:48:25,200
We can have differences in
judgment and not hate each

803
00:48:25,200 –> 00:48:27,100
other.
When we hate each other, it

804
00:48:27,100 –> 00:48:30,300
turns into that kind of offense
and this is the proverb that

805
00:48:30,300 –> 00:48:32,900
proves that point hatred stirs
up Strife.

806
00:48:33,300 –> 00:48:37,200
But love covers all offenses.
So, hatred and offenses are put

807
00:48:37,200 –> 00:48:39,400
in juxtaposition here in this
proper.

808
00:48:41,700 –> 00:48:43,400
Do you know how to recognize
hatred and you?

809
00:48:43,408 –> 00:48:46,700
Because a lot of people don’t, a
lot of people think that they

810
00:48:46,700 –> 00:48:49,800
are full of God’s word, his
truth, his purpose, his

811
00:48:49,800 –> 00:48:53,400
principles, his love, and
they’re full of hatred.

812
00:48:55,700 –> 00:48:59,800
Venom comes out of their mouths
that they assign principal to

813
00:49:00,400 –> 00:49:03,000
it’s a strange thing.
But that’s the way human nature.

814
00:49:03,000 –> 00:49:04,600
I mean, are we surprised at that
point?

815
00:49:06,200 –> 00:49:09,100
How does that do human nature?
Isn’t that what Jeremiah said?

816
00:49:09,100 –> 00:49:11,100
The heart of man is deceptive
above all things.

817
00:49:11,700 –> 00:49:14,300
So that’s the deception in
recognizing hatred and yourself.

818
00:49:14,300 –> 00:49:17,500
Here’s how to do it.
It says, in Isaiah, all that

819
00:49:17,500 –> 00:49:20,900
watch for iniquity.
You’re cut off.

820
00:49:23,000 –> 00:49:26,400
So think about Brethren but
especially in your

821
00:49:26,400 –> 00:49:29,400
self-examination.
Think do I watch for iniquity?

822
00:49:29,400 –> 00:49:34,100
Is that something I do?
Because if you watch for

823
00:49:34,100 –> 00:49:37,500
iniquity in other people, you’ll
find it.

824
00:49:38,500 –> 00:49:40,500
You look for iniquity, it’s
there.

825
00:49:41,900 –> 00:49:44,100
And you may even find something
that’s not there and that turns

826
00:49:44,100 –> 00:49:46,900
into false accusation, how much
of that is there in this world?

827
00:49:48,200 –> 00:49:50,000
It’s rampant, it’s out of
control.

828
00:49:50,800 –> 00:49:54,200
So be careful not to watch for
iniquity.

829
00:49:55,600 –> 00:49:58,100
That make a man, an offender
forward if you ever heard that

830
00:49:58,100 –> 00:50:02,100
sort of thing in ecclesial
differences or in controversies,

831
00:50:02,100 –> 00:50:05,800
I, you know what he said?
well, sometimes those words turn

832
00:50:05,800 –> 00:50:09,000
into patterns that very hard,
just kind of put in the balance

833
00:50:09,000 –> 00:50:14,700
of this principle, but Solomon
said, well, you know, don’t

834
00:50:14,700 –> 00:50:18,900
don’t feel so strongly when you
hear someone cursing you,

835
00:50:18,900 –> 00:50:21,100
because, you know, yourself, you
have cursed others.

836
00:50:22,800 –> 00:50:25,100
So you hear somebody guilty of
the same thing, you’re guilty

837
00:50:25,100 –> 00:50:26,900
of, it’s kind of hard to point
the finger isn’t.

838
00:50:27,600 –> 00:50:30,500
So that’s another point that
Isaiah makes, Isaiah has this

839
00:50:30,500 –> 00:50:36,100
all over his, his whole book.
So, this sort of thing is not

840
00:50:36,100 –> 00:50:38,100
just isolated.
In this particular, passage

841
00:50:39,200 –> 00:50:41,000
people say a lot of things, they
don’t mean.

842
00:50:41,100 –> 00:50:44,500
And what Mercy does is covered
cover the words that otherwise

843
00:50:44,500 –> 00:50:47,300
might turn into offenses in us.
This is these are the things

844
00:50:47,300 –> 00:50:50,800
that turn into hatred in US.
That lay a snare for him that

845
00:50:50,800 –> 00:50:54,800
reprove in the gate.
So they recognize that you have

846
00:50:54,800 –> 00:50:59,500
kind of your finger on the latch
at the gate.

847
00:50:59,500 –> 00:51:02,400
And what’s the gate?
The gate is the Ingress and

848
00:51:02,400 –> 00:51:07,100
egress, to the occlusion is
where people come and go into

849
00:51:07,100 –> 00:51:10,400
the, into the courtyard into the
temple.

850
00:51:10,700 –> 00:51:14,100
The gate is the Ingress, and
egress into the house of God.

851
00:51:14,500 –> 00:51:16,800
And a lot of brothers that are
right there by that gate.

852
00:51:17,600 –> 00:51:22,000
Jesus said, I have the key to
that gate, and no man can open

853
00:51:22,000 –> 00:51:24,300
it if I shut it, and no, man can
shut it if I open it.

854
00:51:24,300 –> 00:51:27,100
So, we recognize in that
principle that he’s in.

855
00:51:27,300 –> 00:51:30,200
Ultimately, in control of the
Ingress, and egress into the

856
00:51:30,200 –> 00:51:32,900
Ecclesia, but not to the extent.
I think that we would like him

857
00:51:32,900 –> 00:51:38,100
to be in control because he lets
weeds grow among tears in that,

858
00:51:38,400 –> 00:51:44,600
that Ingress and egress But
there are people like the

859
00:51:44,600 –> 00:51:48,000
Pharisees who come up with
questions that are designed to

860
00:51:48,000 –> 00:51:54,100
put a snare for somebody who is
trying best he can to bring

861
00:51:54,100 –> 00:51:57,000
righteousness in through the
instrument of reproof.

862
00:51:58,000 –> 00:52:02,200
So he says, that’s not that.
That is a way of recognizing

863
00:52:02,800 –> 00:52:05,200
hatred in yourself, too.
And how subtle would that be?

864
00:52:05,200 –> 00:52:07,800
You’ve got this question you
think is going to stop him.

865
00:52:08,900 –> 00:52:12,300
And it’s really a snare may not
be justifiable.

866
00:52:12,300 –> 00:52:14,600
It may be based on a complete
Miss assessment of who you’re

867
00:52:14,600 –> 00:52:19,100
working with with respect to who
this snare is late for.

868
00:52:20,300 –> 00:52:26,100
But it’s a problem avoid that
and there’s an incoming call

869
00:52:26,100 –> 00:52:27,200
here.
Should I get this?

870
00:52:34,000 –> 00:52:35,000
Speaker.
Hello.

871
00:52:40,300 –> 00:52:43,600
To start turn aside the just for
a thing of naught, if these are

872
00:52:43,600 –> 00:52:45,500
all in a row in the same
passage.

873
00:52:45,500 –> 00:52:52,200
So You think we do that?
You think there’s that form of

874
00:52:52,200 –> 00:52:56,200
hatred anywhere people who turn
aside the just who are they?

875
00:52:57,200 –> 00:52:59,500
There’s a resurrection for the
just and the unjust, right?

876
00:52:59,500 –> 00:53:03,100
So they must be people who will
be in the resurrection.

877
00:53:04,900 –> 00:53:07,500
For a thing of not.
What’s a thing of naught?

878
00:53:08,800 –> 00:53:12,700
It’s for a non-existent issue.
An issue that has been has been

879
00:53:12,700 –> 00:53:16,400
inflated into a problem that
really isn’t a problem, is there

880
00:53:16,400 –> 00:53:20,500
ever any circumstance in which
we might find ourselves turning

881
00:53:20,500 –> 00:53:23,900
aside the just for a thing of
naught and if there is we should

882
00:53:23,900 –> 00:53:28,200
recognize even though it’s so
subtle, it feels like protection

883
00:53:28,200 –> 00:53:31,100
of the truth.
That we are turning aside, the

884
00:53:31,100 –> 00:53:33,200
just for the thing, is not in
those people.

885
00:53:33,300 –> 00:53:37,100
Jesus says, in his judgment
dialogue in Matthew 25 in as

886
00:53:37,107 –> 00:53:39,700
much as they did it to one of
the least of these my brethren,

887
00:53:40,200 –> 00:53:43,100
they have done it to me and he
tells them to depart from him

888
00:53:43,200 –> 00:53:46,400
because their workers of
iniquity, we don’t see ourselves

889
00:53:46,400 –> 00:53:50,200
in that light but the heart of
man is so deceptive that we

890
00:53:50,200 –> 00:53:53,300
could fall in his trap without
even knowing.

891
00:53:53,300 –> 00:53:57,200
God forbid, it are
controversies, would cause us to

892
00:53:57,200 –> 00:54:03,400
go so far as to turn aside the
just for a thing of naught and

893
00:54:03,400 –> 00:54:09,300
would this not also include
those people who are just In

894
00:54:09,300 –> 00:54:12,900
their faith through Grace
because it’s faith.

895
00:54:12,900 –> 00:54:16,400
That justifies us through Grace
and it’s Grace, That Forgives,

896
00:54:16,400 –> 00:54:20,200
the worst of sins If they turned
aside Paul.

897
00:54:21,400 –> 00:54:24,800
It was a work of iniquity.
If we turn aside, somebody whom

898
00:54:24,800 –> 00:54:28,600
the Lord has forgiven.
And desires to save is no less

899
00:54:28,600 –> 00:54:31,500
than that.
They are very sobering thoughts.

900
00:54:31,500 –> 00:54:35,900
But this is how to recognize
hatred in yourself because you

901
00:54:35,900 –> 00:54:39,000
need to, we all need to look at
this carefully.

902
00:54:39,200 –> 00:54:42,000
As we examine ourselves because
it’s every one of these is

903
00:54:42,000 –> 00:54:46,100
extraordinarily subtle.
It could they can each one of

904
00:54:46,107 –> 00:54:50,600
these things can be masked as
righteousness in defense of God.

905
00:54:51,000 –> 00:54:54,400
The truth and they are not.
So then let’s look at discordant

906
00:54:54,400 –> 00:54:56,900
agreement.
Paul says agree with one another

907
00:54:56,900 –> 00:55:00,400
live in peace.
That’s where the piece come

908
00:55:00,400 –> 00:55:01,600
from.
It comes from the Bremen.

909
00:55:01,600 –> 00:55:07,000
And that’s where agreement face
Fellowship by lies in the same

910
00:55:07,000 –> 00:55:08,400
mind.
And same judgment on the

911
00:55:08,400 –> 00:55:11,600
matters, on the application of
the practice of Fellowship.

912
00:55:12,500 –> 00:55:14,600
There are two problems that lead
to Discord.

913
00:55:15,200 –> 00:55:17,700
One is in that we want to focus
on I guess we have, what?

914
00:55:17,700 –> 00:55:21,100
Two minutes left here?
It would do the best we can.

915
00:55:23,400 –> 00:55:25,800
Better.
We just work into these points

916
00:55:25,800 –> 00:55:28,900
and get the ones that we can and
not finish then to race through

917
00:55:28,900 –> 00:55:32,400
them and not get any of them in
Finish being righteous over

918
00:55:32,400 –> 00:55:35,200
much.
I think any one of us can

919
00:55:35,200 –> 00:55:39,300
recognize that the potential for
this is a problem, the potential

920
00:55:39,300 –> 00:55:44,300
to recognize this as a source
problem is very high.

921
00:55:45,800 –> 00:55:48,000
You can just be too righteous
over.

922
00:55:48,000 –> 00:55:49,400
You can do this with your kids,
you can.

923
00:55:49,400 –> 00:55:52,500
You can do this as a an older
brother and an inclusion, you

924
00:55:52,500 –> 00:55:55,000
just come down fecal, standards
and things.

925
00:55:55,600 –> 00:55:58,100
Intellectualism theologies they
can understand.

926
00:55:58,300 –> 00:56:00,700
You can overwhelm them with your
knowledge and essentially be

927
00:56:00,700 –> 00:56:02,800
righteous over much and we
can’t, you can’t do that.

928
00:56:02,800 –> 00:56:06,000
You don’t, you don’t feed
children meet the kid, babies

929
00:56:06,000 –> 00:56:09,400
make meat, they can’t eat and
you give them milk because it’s

930
00:56:09,400 –> 00:56:11,300
good for them.
They can digest that.

931
00:56:11,900 –> 00:56:14,300
So he says don’t be overly
righteous and make yourself too

932
00:56:14,300 –> 00:56:17,800
wise.
He goes on to say, why should

933
00:56:17,800 –> 00:56:20,600
you destroy yourself?
So actually being righteous

934
00:56:20,600 –> 00:56:23,000
over.
Much can be on a lead you on a

935
00:56:23,000 –> 00:56:28,500
path of self-destruction?
Yeah, if you become a soldier of

936
00:56:28,500 –> 00:56:32,600
Discord with your righteousness
over much, God hates that and he

937
00:56:32,600 –> 00:56:35,100
hates the Sowers of it.
Those people do not.

938
00:56:35,100 –> 00:56:39,500
So the the seeds of
righteousness and wisdom and

939
00:56:39,500 –> 00:56:42,600
peace.
There’s another problem we have

940
00:56:42,600 –> 00:56:46,000
and that’s going beyond what is
written, what anyone here

941
00:56:46,000 –> 00:56:50,600
suggests that people who are
great theological students and

942
00:56:50,600 –> 00:56:53,800
and develop knowledge over time
mixed with human nature.

943
00:56:53,800 –> 00:56:57,100
Don’t have the temptation to go
beyond what is written.

944
00:56:57,300 –> 00:57:02,400
Especially if they write all the
more I mean, Harry tenant was

945
00:57:02,400 –> 00:57:04,200
looking at what we’re going
through the United States, one

946
00:57:04,200 –> 00:57:06,000
time and we were talking about
this a little earlier and he

947
00:57:06,008 –> 00:57:11,900
said if Paul were here he would
say, why did I write Romans?

948
00:57:12,700 –> 00:57:15,200
Why do you need to write a whole
other book that explains the

949
00:57:15,200 –> 00:57:18,900
relationship of sin and death,
its origin its outcome in the

950
00:57:18,900 –> 00:57:21,800
atonement and its outcome in the
resurrection.

951
00:57:21,900 –> 00:57:25,400
If I’ve already explained all
that and I think pretty clearly

952
00:57:25,400 –> 00:57:28,500
in Romans had wanted part of
Romans, did you not understand

953
00:57:28,800 –> 00:57:30,700
that requires a book to be
written?

954
00:57:30,900 –> 00:57:35,700
That’s Twice the size of Romans
and goes beyond what is written.

955
00:57:36,800 –> 00:57:39,900
Point taken.
So, there’s a point about

956
00:57:39,900 –> 00:57:45,300
agreement and humility.
Humility is the only spiritual

957
00:57:45,300 –> 00:57:51,100
disposition that makes?
Agreement work or the tendency

958
00:57:51,100 –> 00:57:53,400
of variation in judgment to
work.

959
00:57:53,400 –> 00:57:55,500
So he says, finally brothers,
look at this.

960
00:57:55,900 –> 00:58:00,400
Look at how plain and simple.
This is Rejoice.

961
00:58:01,000 –> 00:58:05,900
That’s where we start joy in the
Lord kingdom of God, is Not meat

962
00:58:05,900 –> 00:58:08,300
and drink.
It is not crackers.

963
00:58:08,300 –> 00:58:10,900
And Manischewitz that is not the
kingdom of God.

964
00:58:11,000 –> 00:58:14,300
It is not dunking underwater, it
is not animals burning on the

965
00:58:14,300 –> 00:58:16,200
altar.
It is not circumcision.

966
00:58:16,900 –> 00:58:20,100
But joy and peace in the spirit
of Christ.

967
00:58:20,900 –> 00:58:24,600
That’s the kingdom of God.
So he says, aim for restoration

968
00:58:25,400 –> 00:58:29,700
Comfort one, another agree with
one another live in peace.

969
00:58:29,700 –> 00:58:33,200
This is our unnatural things,
These Are Spiritual things and

970
00:58:33,200 –> 00:58:35,600
the god of love and peace will
be with you.

971
00:58:36,600 –> 00:58:40,500
One more thing.
Variants and emulation was get

972
00:58:40,500 –> 00:58:42,600
through this fast.
These are two words that people

973
00:58:42,600 –> 00:58:44,900
do not understand.
So how are you going to avoid

974
00:58:44,900 –> 00:58:47,200
fleshly impulsive variance and
emulation if you don’t even know

975
00:58:47,200 –> 00:58:49,800
what they mean?
That’s why I put this section in

976
00:58:49,800 –> 00:58:52,500
here while I’m at take a couple
of minutes to show you the part

977
00:58:52,500 –> 00:58:56,900
of the fruits of the flesh.
We know that He says the fruits

978
00:58:56,900 –> 00:58:59,600
of the flesh are and so on and
so forth and variance,

979
00:58:59,600 –> 00:59:03,100
emulations he adds to that wrath
strife, seditions heresies and

980
00:59:03,100 –> 00:59:05,600
embassies and envyings and
hatred.

981
00:59:05,600 –> 00:59:07,700
And we know those are the
components of controversy.

982
00:59:07,800 –> 00:59:12,000
Are they not?
So in the house of God,

983
00:59:12,000 –> 00:59:15,100
controversy has caused an
incalculable amount of faith,

984
00:59:15,100 –> 00:59:17,500
and suffering, and loss of
faith.

985
00:59:17,500 –> 00:59:20,500
I didn’t tell you what thing he
can, I don’t know what I have.

986
00:59:20,500 –> 00:59:25,800
Didn’t know, variance means that
particular oppositional

987
00:59:25,800 –> 00:59:29,100
disagreement, where it becomes a
difference of view that is

988
00:59:29,100 –> 00:59:31,400
irreconcilable, could be a
difference of judgment

989
00:59:31,500 –> 00:59:34,000
difference of opinion
difference, in application of

990
00:59:34,000 –> 00:59:35,800
principle difference in
Doctrine.

991
00:59:35,900 –> 00:59:38,900
But variance is what we have.
For example, with trinitarians,

992
00:59:38,900 –> 00:59:42,000
we are at Bauer Dance with them,
he calls it a fleshly impulse

993
00:59:42,000 –> 00:59:45,400
because once you know the truth,
if you are wise over much and

994
00:59:45,400 –> 00:59:47,500
you go beyond what is written,
you’ll make all manner of

995
00:59:47,500 –> 00:59:49,000
variants.
That doesn’t have anything to do

996
00:59:49,000 –> 00:59:51,100
with things that are supposed to
be at odds with each other.

997
00:59:51,600 –> 00:59:54,100
You’re just inventing this out
of your nature and arguing about

998
00:59:54,100 –> 00:59:59,600
it because this is what men do.
An emulation is best manship.

999
00:59:59,800 –> 01:00:02,300
You think you gave a good talk
way to hear mine.

1000
01:00:02,600 –> 01:00:04,300
You think you have a good
theology.

1001
01:00:04,600 –> 01:00:07,000
I’ll show you a theology, that
explains it all of the better,

1002
01:00:07,000 –> 01:00:09,100
you wrote elpis Israel.
I’m going to write a book that’s

1003
01:00:09,100 –> 01:00:11,600
all the better than help Israel
and it will just set everything

1004
01:00:11,600 –> 01:00:13,000
straight.
I don’t know.

1005
01:00:13,008 –> 01:00:14,700
Well, that book.
Well, that was old book will

1006
01:00:14,700 –> 01:00:16,500
write a new book now and that’ll
set everything straight.

1007
01:00:16,500 –> 01:00:18,700
And if that doesn’t work, we’ll
get on the internet and put a

1008
01:00:18,900 –> 01:00:22,200
website and it has a thousand
fifty pages in it and just read

1009
01:00:22,200 –> 01:00:23,800
them all.
And you understand exactly what

1010
01:00:23,800 –> 01:00:26,200
Paul meant when he said agree
with one another.

1011
01:00:26,300 –> 01:00:31,600
I live in peace.
So let’s talk for a minute about

1012
01:00:31,600 –> 01:00:33,500
reconciliation.
This is where will close just a

1013
01:00:33,500 –> 01:00:35,900
couple minutes left if you can
indulge the time I think we have

1014
01:00:35,900 –> 01:00:39,700
a half hour.
Between now and next explain.

1015
01:00:39,700 –> 01:00:42,000
All right, so 20 minutes will do
the same thing.

1016
01:00:43,000 –> 01:00:45,200
Thank you.
Thank you for your patience with

1017
01:00:45,200 –> 01:00:47,100
me.
This after this this weekend.

1018
01:00:47,300 –> 01:00:50,000
Thank you, it.
Sometimes it can be a little bit

1019
01:00:50,000 –> 01:00:53,400
difficult to go a little bit
longer but I believe if you’re

1020
01:00:53,400 –> 01:00:57,000
bored, it’s my fault now.
Therefore, you let me know and I

1021
01:00:57,000 –> 01:00:58,500
will take all the blame for your
boredom.

1022
01:00:58,600 –> 01:01:00,500
Okay?
Obvious, not a problem with me

1023
01:01:00,500 –> 01:01:04,900
with you.
Sameness of mine in judgment

1024
01:01:04,900 –> 01:01:10,200
comes across in this beautiful
figure of what God showed Noah

1025
01:01:10,200 –> 01:01:13,600
in a covenant.
And then he turned into the full

1026
01:01:13,600 –> 01:01:18,800
spectrum of the Ocho overarching
power of Christ rule Kingdom.

1027
01:01:19,900 –> 01:01:23,100
In the throne, the Throne of
Christ because that too is

1028
01:01:23,100 –> 01:01:27,500
described being surrounded.
As rainbow says immediately I

1029
01:01:27,500 –> 01:01:30,800
was in the spirit and behold a
throne was set in heaven and one

1030
01:01:30,800 –> 01:01:34,500
sat on the throne and there was
a rainbow around the throne

1031
01:01:34,700 –> 01:01:38,900
God’s covenant surrounded the
throne if that’s the Throne of

1032
01:01:39,200 –> 01:01:43,400
David and Christ is on it, then
the Assembly of saints that are

1033
01:01:43,400 –> 01:01:46,800
around that Throne are likened
to the rainbow.

1034
01:01:47,900 –> 01:01:53,600
That Noah saw in the cloud full
of color, the full spectrum of

1035
01:01:53,600 –> 01:01:57,100
color around about The Throne.
I saw 24 Elders, clothed in

1036
01:01:57,100 –> 01:02:00,600
white raiment, they had on their
heads crowns of gold, there were

1037
01:02:00,600 –> 01:02:03,400
seven lamps of fire burning
Before the Throne which are the

1038
01:02:03,400 –> 01:02:06,800
seven spirits of God.
So in the Tabernacle that was

1039
01:02:06,800 –> 01:02:09,100
set by little candlesticks and
then when Jesus wrote the

1040
01:02:09,100 –> 01:02:11,700
letters to the seven churches,
there were there were seven

1041
01:02:11,700 –> 01:02:13,700
times seven.
There were, there were seven

1042
01:02:13,700 –> 01:02:17,200
candlesticks with seven candles
in the, each one of them was in

1043
01:02:17,200 –> 01:02:19,000
a cliche.
Representative of the house of

1044
01:02:19,000 –> 01:02:21,900
God in the Kingdom that turns
into the real thing.

1045
01:02:22,200 –> 01:02:25,900
Seven spirits of fire seven
spirits of that thing which

1046
01:02:25,900 –> 01:02:28,600
brings God’s judgments into the
world that makes up his very

1047
01:02:28,600 –> 01:02:34,600
nature fire.
God is a consuming fire So

1048
01:02:34,700 –> 01:02:38,300
looking at this picture as the
reality of where we’re headed in

1049
01:02:38,300 –> 01:02:41,100
the Royal administration of
Jesus, is the son of God have

1050
01:02:41,100 –> 01:02:43,000
seen it on his throne.
He’s the light that’s coming

1051
01:02:43,000 –> 01:02:47,000
into this world around.
Him are the 12 disciples Seated

1052
01:02:47,000 –> 01:02:50,600
on 12, Thrones judging the
Twelve Tribes of Israel around

1053
01:02:50,600 –> 01:02:52,600
them?
I think are 24 Elders.

1054
01:02:53,600 –> 01:02:56,100
These are mentioned as being
part of the royal

1055
01:02:56,100 –> 01:03:00,100
Administration, their second of
singled out as the upper end of

1056
01:03:00,100 –> 01:03:02,700
his administration.
Maybe people like Moses and

1057
01:03:02,700 –> 01:03:06,400
David, Daniel and Joseph, a lot
of experience and who in our

1058
01:03:06,400 –> 01:03:12,100
time might be among the 24
Elders who indeed and around

1059
01:03:12,100 –> 01:03:15,600
them, seven spirits of fire.
Which look to John like a

1060
01:03:15,600 –> 01:03:18,300
rainbow.
It was so lovely.

1061
01:03:18,300 –> 01:03:22,700
So full of the Covenant of the
Lord where he said this is the

1062
01:03:22,700 –> 01:03:28,000
Covenant, I will make with you,
I will never again, Destroy All

1063
01:03:28,000 –> 01:03:31,000
Flesh.
I will bring my light into this

1064
01:03:31,000 –> 01:03:34,100
world in the clouds in the day
of rain.

1065
01:03:35,100 –> 01:03:37,600
So this is looking at this in
elevation, this is what the

1066
01:03:37,600 –> 01:03:39,100
Royal Administration would look
like.

1067
01:03:39,100 –> 01:03:43,500
According to those scriptural
points, there’s the 12 tribes

1068
01:03:43,500 –> 01:03:48,100
judging the 12 tribes of Israel.
There are the 24 Elders seated

1069
01:03:48,100 –> 01:03:54,900
around the throne.
And then Just using the number

1070
01:03:54,900 –> 01:03:59,900
figuratively.
There are 144 thousand people in

1071
01:03:59,900 –> 01:04:02,600
this Congress in this
government.

1072
01:04:02,800 –> 01:04:05,700
So you look at this picture each
one of those squares is 100

1073
01:04:05,800 –> 01:04:08,800
Saints each.
One of the sections of squares

1074
01:04:08,800 –> 01:04:14,400
is a thousand Saints.
Each column is 6,000 Saints.

1075
01:04:14,400 –> 01:04:18,800
Each row is 24,000 Saints.
So, this is literally in this

1076
01:04:18,800 –> 01:04:23,000
illustration, 144,000 sink.
It’s you’re looking at the

1077
01:04:23,000 –> 01:04:26,600
figure so that’s a symbolic
figure, maybe many more than

1078
01:04:26,600 –> 01:04:29,600
that, but even if it were just
this, If This Were a literal

1079
01:04:29,600 –> 01:04:33,000
number, do you think Jesus could
rule the world with this

1080
01:04:33,000 –> 01:04:36,400
government?
I don’t think he could do it by

1081
01:04:36,400 –> 01:04:37,900
himself on a throne in
Jerusalem.

1082
01:04:38,400 –> 01:04:41,600
He needs people who are like him
have his mind, his Spirit, had

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his training in the midst of all
these controversies to go to all

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parts of the world and to become
the judges and rulers and

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princes and kings in the world
in his administration.

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01:04:53,100 –> 01:04:57,000
This makes a lot of sense to me.
This is what his promise you can

1087
01:04:57,000 –> 01:05:00,000
be a part of if you’re a part of
those seven spirits of fire that

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01:05:00,000 –> 01:05:03,200
sit around the throne and give
all praise and power and honour

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01:05:03,200 –> 01:05:07,400
to glory to the king.
We Puts you as his crown on his

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head because you’re a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood.

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01:05:15,200 –> 01:05:20,900
You his own special people. that
you may proclaim the Praises of

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01:05:20,900 –> 01:05:23,900
him who called you out of
Darkness Into His Marvelous

1093
01:05:23,900 –> 01:05:29,300
Light, to a people who have just
now learned that God is with us.

1094
01:05:30,400 –> 01:05:32,900
That what some people try to
tell them is now perfectly

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01:05:32,900 –> 01:05:37,000
visible in the eyes of all men?
When every I season, this was

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01:05:37,000 –> 01:05:41,600
really true and you are there
and you are bringing this piece

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01:05:44,300 –> 01:05:49,100
to the end of all controversy
and to the reconciliation of

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01:05:49,100 –> 01:05:31,200
God.
And man, That what some people

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01:05:31,200 –> 01:05:34,300
try to tell them is now
perfectly visible in the eyes of

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01:05:34,300 –> 01:05:37,000
all men?
When every I season, this was

1101
01:05:37,000 –> 01:05:41,600
really true and you are there
and you are bringing this piece

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01:05:44,300 –> 01:05:49,100
to the end of all controversy
and to the reconciliation of

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01:05:49,100 –> 01:05:50,500
God.
And man,