Len Richardson - Manifesto of the King - Class 3 - The Second Mile

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   This name Richardson giving the third study on the Manifesto of the King, study of the Sermon on the Mount, and the particular saying is the Second Mile. We’ll start by seeing a hymn hymn #171 to the first tune when I love the God grown weak when the larger faith I seek, then in fourth I go to thee Garden of Gethsemane. And then we’ll remain standing

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   the short one, Matthew chapter 5, verses 38 to chapter 6, verse 18 by the after that of the birthday present, we’ll ring as possible. Matthew 5/28 to 6/18. He have heard that he was dead. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a thief. That I say unto you, Is this not him? That is easier.

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   The two servants might be on my right feet. Turn to him. The other also. And if any man would go to law with thee? And take away thy. Coat, let him have thy coat also, and whosoever shall compelled thee to go one mile, go with him plain. Give to him that asketh thee Have but him that. Would borrow of thee.

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   Turn love thou away, ye have heard that it was dead. Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thy enemy. That I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persepute you, that thee may be sons of your Father that is in heaven. For he maketh his sons rise on the eagle and the goods, and sendeth reign on the just and the unjust. For if we love them that love you, what reward have you do? Do not even the public do the same? And if you what do you more than others? Don’t even the Gentiles the same? He therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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   Take thee that thee. Give us your righteousness before men to the scene of them, else we have no reward with your Father, which is in heaven. When, therefore thou doest, thine arms sound like a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites in the synagogues and in the. Streets that they may. Have glory of men that lay out there to you.

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   They have received their reward. When thou doest arms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand do it, that thy arms may be in secret, and thy father, which see it in secret, shall recompense thee. And when you pray, we shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and play in the synagogue and in the corner of. The seat.

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   That they were between of men. Verily I say of you, they have received their reward for thou. When thou sayest enter into thine inner chamber, and have him shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which see it in secret, shall recompense thee. And in praying is not vain repetitions at the Gentiles, for they think they shall be heard for them not speaking. Be not therefore like unto them, for your Father knoweth what things He had lead us.

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   Before he asked him. As for this manner, therefore pray ye, our Father, the God in heaven, hallowed be thy name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, as is heaven so on earth. Give us this day Our Daily Bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors, and bring us not into temptation. But deliver.

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   Us from the evil one, for if he forgive men their testicles, your heavenly Father. Will also forgive you. But if he forgive not men their testicles, neither will your father forgive your testicles. Moreover, when you pass to be not as hypocrite. Of a scratched Titans. Will they disfigure their faces as? They may receive. A mentor path barely, I say unto you, They have received their reward for thou.

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    When thou sattest anoint thy head, wash thy face that thou be not seen of mentor path, but of thy father living in secret. And thy father with his secret, shall reckon that fee.

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    When I remind you, brother insisted that the first of these studies, when we came to the conclusion, I think slightly that the Sermon on the Mountain is not just a block of moralizing, but is the preparation of peoples of the Kingdom of God. That is what it’s all confirmed about. It is the manifesto, the King of the Kingdom, and it is the preparation of citizens for his Kingdom. And secondly, if you remember, we came to the division on that first occasion that it was not positive on the mill as merely human beings.

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    That is the fact. It is an unnatural religion. But beings as we teach, there are elements of course, of the teaching of Judas in the which I think called the human being fulfilled. And as I said in discussion the other evening, there are parts in which we would say that a humanist may have this in common system, that he may be good to his neighbour, He may be full of the kind.

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    But a humanist or a laces or a normal Fisher, I would say a normal Fisher, but I have the basic understanding of the adopted people take the burden on the milk. This is the population of citizens of the king and it’s not really pointing up human characteristics to develop the mind of pride. And it is through the development of the spiritual effect that may be prepared for the inheritance of the everlasting spiritual life of the Kingdom of God. And in the second of that stuff, as you may remember and you know that we found the law of Moses, the acid look of the news that God gave him or mounted by the eye using that the code has come to be observed where if the server on the mount of the Spirit we lived by and we found that this was not easy. It wasn’t making only because he no longer had to keep them almost but rather than making it power and of the responsibility of Christ disciples to insult the spirit of them into their leaves.

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    And we have some graphic demonstrations of this unnatural element in the teaching of Jesus in the championship of men together and now that knowing to consider verse 38. You’ve heard that it’s nothing that I’ve asked and that me with this nothing but who’s whoever just might be on my right cheek. You know, limited distribution. I think that is the thing and I’ve not exactly that limited distribution.

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    They will not do exact more and the law is why this is a maximum pay for any ears for dumps. And I thought and I’d say that you resist NE if a man’s like you, turn me over, chief. Also, retribution at all by the complete indisports of injuries, which is in fact a challenge to human dignity and human dignity I would suggest is one of the best things of human nature.

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    And why this is such an unnatural religious to turn another cheek, either literate or mythical, to go to the next. And when an indignity has been heaped upon, it’s the beneath of yourself in the eyes of us. Blessed are the poor Spirit, you say. Blessed are the main. It is the very quality that Jesus is invulcating.

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    And find. It illustrates them in such fields as this. It applies, of course, in the relationships of everybody. I’m not not from the crisis of war. I now hope that if we have become a conscientious, addictive tribune, we shall start posting these passages, very glib to the judge, the committee. Well, I, I’m assisted there.

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    And I believe that we should turn the other cheek and that we should resist nothing. Thank you and friends Mother the five tomorrow as well as today here among our brother and sisters in your relationship with other people in their

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    neighbour. It’s just as important that you all it has a bad man in every day. The shaded willing there to accept indigenously the Christ Bank and to turn the other cheat in private relationships. They get the same enough of a good text deposit of the conscientious objective tribunal.

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    Mighty must be accepted, and affiliation in faithful ways are forbid. Now verbal smiting are not limited to the smiting remaining things from those outside, though occasionally we may do, and in fact that respect they should rejoice that we accounted worthy to suffer shame for His name and not retaliate. But verbal smiting come hard from those we love in the Lords and our daughters and sisters, and sometimes they are tempted to retaliate in kind.

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    And Jesus said, you must not, you may not. The citizens of my Kingdom are not that kind of people. When he wants it, he replies once again, when he presents

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    himself under him with judges right, They hold his own self bare and in his own body to the tree that we being built should never to write. If he put up with all this, if he allowed himself to taste would consume and shame, for God’s sake LED us for God’s sake, be prepared.

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    The whole he said, is now not only a non resistance, but a positive room retaining wrong with love. There’s an enemy appointment always in a moment 12 chapter last first. It’s thine enemy home. The thing is this, if you heard, give him drink.

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    Thou shalt keep problems of fire on his head. And Jesus is inculcated. Paul has called it. It doesn’t matter what this favorite woman now is saying. And he’s learning the history, nearly taking the Old Testament land. But we go into the 14th birth of this chapter, and if any man will queue thee at the mill and take away thy curse, let him have thy crown.

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    Call the poster of the shelf of Paul. Need to go a mile? Go read him twice. I know that you know that this was a Roman salt who had the right to come here, one of some province to carry us back in only for a minute. He makes the miles he’s invented to be shared below those extra mile and two.

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    That’s the factor him Show yourself winning to have that indignity because human nature used to him the basket and remember thoroughly turn not thou away. Now I can every so easily. I am not at all sure why, how I would interpret it in the reality of the from what he demanded, what I’d got in my wallet.

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    I’d rather be asked. But does Jesus mean that? Does he mean we’ve got to be Polish people who recall that a drone denied by the master and his breath is smelling heavily about. I don’t think I don’t want to do what we’ve been exalted by ours and by some process of humanity to get away from being revisers and harmless and brother Isaac told you once said that we always think the way we behave from the being said being harmful.

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    I It’s giving us illustrations of what’s await by this subjection of human dignity we shall have to interpret it for ourselves in situations that. Arise and I’d like. To ask some questions about that it is fine later on in the discussion if we have a discussion.

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    Jesus is not set in here down a another legal requirement, but he is interpreting for us the spirit of the new love is is the kind of thing for his Kingdom because it’s the kind of person The great ideal report is in the according which he may be the the children. Of your cava which?

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    Is in heaven, for he makes his son to rise on the evil and on the good and send his reign on the just and on the only just being like God. That’s what it’s all about. That’s what James is trying to prepare to be the God this, God this that. You may be real the children of your father who remember how good and kind remember how good and kind he is, Remember how good and kind he is independent reigns on the heavenly and remember trust that like him

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    undeserving man like a with the Australian children, we shall be prepared to be kind to those who really may consider to be honest even what Jesus Valentine deciding is what we are. It makes so much what we do or what we say, but what we are being helped and ruled, and love is well better than unbelievable. If you love them, love you not.

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    We’ve all had yet, even the public and the same. It isn’t the rest of your brother alone. They want to do more than others rather than the public and fire. See ye therefore your Father, which is in heaven.

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    What a good question. What do you do than others? Is he being good and tight people? He lied with your brothers and sisters and being happy people all together or or be invented by any of the most angry to ever make tremendous sacrifice. This incident for everything that everything is for which they said I’m ashamed very often to see what the name of the world would be the fricking trouble of this the young thing of life or the famous or the lion and it’s their eyes and I’m I agree.

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    I’ll take one. Well, Jesus says it’s not enough to say fit the novel and everything will be one another every the kind and loving they should another even that, but they should be gracious. If they’re not, then you know there’s another thing. But what Jesus is saying is what are you doing more? How far are you prepared to go?

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    Not just with those you chose the next the night, but to the undeserving, the end of man, the opponent, the regardless, the thoughtless, the society and maturity. What are you prepared to do in reaching out to others to show it for them the love of Christ and operation. They will be there for first and the thought we stumble at that word because no, yes, from perfection.

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    How many of us are of existence? How many of us who are holding the truth now, we shake our heads. I’ve been 455566 whenever he is in the trip and I don’t know. I don’t even know. It’s a very common complaint. I think with God’s mercy and grace, perhaps we made a little, but we haven’t been aware of it. The influences of God have done something for us that we know We’re so far off from that ideal being perfect. Everything has told.

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    Jesus didn’t leave the doctor be Immaculate. He knew it shouldn’t be Immaculate, but forgiving the Testament. I did not hear anything, but I understand the word perfect mean. What is it going up mature. That seems to be the indication of the word. And I think we’ve got to go hard

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    when we’re about 65. We’re in adolescents. Grow up to smooth the path of the blast is of the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect. And the perfect night is between the names of the distance. That’s it. We shall make perfect in that Immaculate sense till God. God with the new nature and eternal life, may it please him. But grow up and keep trying.

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    Jesus is saying the stride towards this completeness which God wants and his emphasis on what a man is, rather than just. The doctor says his characteristic of Christ teaching hypocrisy. And Shannon can never really take the Spirit. We can wear a mask of goodness. I could be wearing them now I know it.

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    I could be standing before you would be afraid of the most splendid latitude wearing a mask of goodness. But it’s what we the gods interest again, It’s what we are. But the Sermon on the Mount is chasing, complaining about, and that’s why in chapter 6, which we went on, he takes 3 rounds of alms giving affair and fancy.

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    And in each case, if you’ve only done it for appearance, then there’s nothing in it. Don’t you’ve done it. You’ve given alms and teeth and you’ve sent her pair of rash religiously. And perhaps you fasted. I never had. I wonder if they’re missing out. I’ve been told by it one or two other sisters who have.

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    It’s a wonderful spiritual experience, but I’ve only tried it about twice and I never got over that first day at lunch. But I believe there is something wrong. There is a little concern with this.

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    He’s saying when you do do it in the glorious, do it the sort of what you are and not just trying to impress other people. If you’re going to be generous with your mommy in giving arms

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    because other people don’t say he is a generous fellow, because if that’s what you are, you can’t expect anything to me. Merely I say they have their so you wanted to be well, you’ve been you’ve had it and you’ve nothing of that. Well, you say, you said let’s be between you and not necessarily going into a room, but you can go into the things that change with your own mind and have your faith in your Father, you know,

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    but Jesus said that to other people. Let your friend he’s very desirable having those so he’s had it. I can’t get reward in the same advance. They have nothing. I’m not sure, but they have it. That’s the fact that they have asked that there is powerful sort of on the teaching of Jesus, because in trying to be the kind of people God wants to support is so much more important than trying to do the things we know will look. And Jesus is himself the living of his own teaching only did he not reveal, but he gave himself up. Is it me you think?

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    Here I am, let me go their way, Jesus said, and they made hope of him. He prayed for his crucifiers rather than have had condemned him with the cross. I don’t know they have been that as they were actually doing this thing. It’s mainly the test to the cross. Does he sell me?

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    Check. They know they’re not responsible carrying up their job. Pray for them. He gave his life to the world of Saints and despitefully you said that we are to resist lobbies and know their ends and pay for them. He’s done it all. He’s done it all himself. Every man went to now Jesus, did we have any shame or make them even self-interest. We learn to not the men when we shall see him very very that he should desire him.

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    He is deprived and rejected of men. A man of fires and acquainted with girls, and we appeared at work our papers from him. Yet he went through this door because he loved God and because of his great compassion for the human race. And when we break bread on something or whenever and share his life in in in his raising, we are scheduling that will be the kind of people he wants that sharing the very spirit and the theoretical thing, the triumph of inheritance in our bail in it.

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    This is why to that and it’s more emotive to buy now benefit. I’m sure when we take the bread and read the wine, we are showing the world there what he did, how he put into practice in our own principle of combat. But when we go out into the world, show it yourself. Show the Lord God in your own lives until he comes. Well, I have this time purposely abbreviated what I’d got to say because I want to hear what you’ve got to say. And I’m going to ask in all this. Absolutely right.

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    The other day when you said that, you know, we want to ask you questions, not you ask. That’s all right. I’ll try to ask, although I’m not very competent to answer. I’m better at asking questions than answering them. But all I’m putting up these little yellow pills for each time is just saying that these are the kind of things we ought to be considering, and they are. Any suggestions to help you, as it were, Encapsulate is the word everybody uses, Encapsulate the ideas that we’ve been studying in the.

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    So if somebody will take things in the hand around and then when you’ve had a chance to look at them, I’d like to hear something from the floor. Thank you.

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    I’m going to read them through certainly for the benefit of the tape recordings because this is part of my own study. Really these are the sorts of things that I feel the study needs in. So I’m going to just read them through and then I can invite you to take up anyone and say what you’ve been having three the second mile.

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    How far should non resistance and non violence go in the Society of the day? For example, they use depending living the standards of winter fest in the society, perhaps protecting old people from young folks. Things of this kind. Thus care for our neighbours sometimes require resistance to the forces of evil. You remember I said the teaching of Jesus was not easier than the more than half because if we got it all that they’ll not join the trade union which we know what to do, but we have to interpret the teaching of Jesus ourselves and find a conscientious answer.

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    So do we more than others and this on the bill. What do we many Christians who we would like to regard as only 5 constructed in the box seem to do far more than we in service. In fact, advice for Christ. Now that is a personal I am often very thoroughly ashamed when I read and hear and get to know people who don’t just give up.

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    You know an odd bond or offended from eternal gathering or a bit of bill pushing, but spend their lives in the service of leopards. 1520. Oh, this is about passing. Jesus has refused. His disciples passed as strongly as they pray. That is interesting isn’t it? I will miss the album. I feel I am really that I haven’t got milpower 4. Jesus has moved in all sections of society was particularly a friend of public and Vincent, which horrified the pest heresies.

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    Should we be more prepared to live among work among the jigs? This is really again what we’ve been insisting in the discussion evenings on more than one attempt. So you may like to get because we have something I’m ready for the first one because I’d like to be to the point being raised,

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    but I’m not even asking from that. Anyway, Andrew, you have this side. The mic will pick it up. Oh, the mic will pick it up. This is stink up right now. Can I have the first contribution? Yes. Yes. Yes, Yes. They come back gradually, don’t they? Yes. And what’s your point?

58. 36:43

    I didn’t use the word. I didn’t use the phrase in the in the term conscience, if I may just say that because the word conscience is one that comes up a lot Tribune, and it means to have knowledge with violence, to share knowledge with so that in a sense our conscience is not just alike within.

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    We have not had that. The light within is darkness. Our conscience is our caring of the principles that Jesus has given us when we absorb these into ourselves and with His grace and with His help, imperfect them into our lives. This is the knowledge with God being shared with others that enable us to discern good believable

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    None that we left of the world and we shouldn’t stay on room for it. I’ll finally I’m thinking that indeed, indeed. Thank you for confirmation.

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    Hmm. I I hope that you might have picked up that point from Leslie Evans. He was saying that he was made back to fundamentals that the Law of Moses with all its offering day by day continually could not tend the conscience of mankind that it needed the forgiveness of God in the Lord Jesus Christ to protect his fending and of fool. Don’t we feel that when we study it’s in this suddenly that we are saying nothing to tell about it, but just studying the principles of righteousness in the burden of I’m sure all here what let the evidence they say.

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    That were it not for the grace and forgiveness of God in the Lord Jesus Christ, we should be felt without trade, well and made inside ever so to put things into practice and striving more perfection. If only that’s forgiveness and the grace of God that makes it possible for us be made perfect in Him is asking on question two.

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    No sorry on question one about protecting old people from young, this kind of thing. Are we going to stand by idly and when I’m a conscientious objector. So you were put up with it. What would our attitude be? That’s why I raised and why I believe the thinking of Jesus is interpretable in every situation.

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    But when you have two interpretations, I’d like some views of some of their young folks. All right, you may. But you’ve got you’ve got him

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    love. Nothing you could say you could say is that love of your neighbour has defined operated a other bolder people and they know the wrong person himself might have been immediate things. I knew that he never ever wanted to happen situation. But these are the kind of problems that do arise and they’re not they’re not artificial situation.

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    Brother Arthur Pennington, as you probably all know, was, was actually loved rather viciously himself in his own shop. And in fact, as I believe quite for every century or suddenly, I don’t know the detail, but I know that he was he was set upon in this very way. Supposedly the young brother had been passing. What would he do for Arthur Pennington? Good question.

67. 44:49

    None. None. None and None, thank you. Yes, I’m sure we should all agree. I think we should all agree with that. And militantly man in the picket line trying to stop other people going well, it’s quite clear the spirit of the taking of reason as to actually paying your dues and organization that negotiates on your behalf of the employer.

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    And this isn’t a sort of individual concept. I think, and it’s one like I said earlier thought that the sermon on the mail is by seat is a set of pieces which you must go out with private. Tell me the last question.

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    Yes, I remember my brother he knew me very well but lovely. I loved him being 18. I remember dear brother, mother and my old son, the school. And he said to me, we have a great friend. I I really need this. He looked on his old book. He’s done the absolute immediately. We’ve got one of our old books.

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    But I remember him saying, Lynn, he said I don’t think we need to learn anything, that I only are living in the place. And I said, well, yeah, that’s all right, but do they need us for anything? I think that’s the question we’ve got to ask ourselves. But I leave it with you because the time’s gone, you see, and we haven’t progressed very fast.

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    But Peggy, I do say thank you because that is a very valid point. The best thing we can do for society is to live. And if it’s the peachy we’re concerned then with her brother Jim Bryan in Vic who we’re delighted to have with us right after singing him Abraham.

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    That’s really kind of hypertension. But the man he demise is the whole business of trying to leave the trailer. These have called us all the few over their lives wild restlessly May by his day, his sweet voice down the space question.