061: Dennis Bevans – Walk In The Light

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Welcome to the good Christian
talks podcast.

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I’m Levi and I’m Chris.
Thank you so much for joining us

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this week on this podcast.
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We post at the start of each
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With a short intro before hand
to kind of set the stage for the

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talk.
You’re about to hear and now

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let’s hear more about this
week’s talk.

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This week.
We’ll listen to the first class

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that was given by brother Dennis
Bevins at the iPod Bible school

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this past year the same year is
also the class that was given by

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brother Ben Brinckerhoff that we
posted earlier this year.

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This is the first class in his
series on the disciple whom

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Jesus loved John and this was
actually the one that at

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Idyllwild I wasn’t able to
listen to live.

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So I was excited to be able to
listen to this one and to share

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it with everyone apologies for
this class being a little bit

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late.
You can probably still hear To

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my voice a little bit.
I got a cold and pretty much

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lost my voice for the better
part of the week which makes

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recording ensure a little bit
difficult.

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But why don’t you get this one
out in this first class brother

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Dennis is laying the groundwork
for the class that he’s going to

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give for the entire week of
Idlewild and spend some time

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kind of looking at the disciple
John and how we interact with

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Christ through Christ’s Ministry
and life.

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And then after Christ’s death
and Resurrection, he’s laying a

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lot of the groundwork for a lot
of the things that he is going

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to be using and referencing to
through the rest of his series,

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but I thought this one was
particularly good because one

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he’s he’s laying the ground
work.

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He’s doing an introduction which
makes it really good for this

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format for the podcast because
it is a good kind of stand-alone

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class, but also really is
interesting for for digging into

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the rest of the classes in this
series, but he also makes a

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point that he drives at
throughout the rest of his

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series about how we approach
each other when it comes to the

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fact that all of us have fallen
short of the Lori and the

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example that was set by Christ
and he makes a point that I

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found really powerful.
It was a good reminder to myself

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just in the way that we all have
different things that we

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struggle with and our own little
corners of Darkness or sin that

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we’re struggling with a
different points, but that’s

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different for every single
person and the point that Dennis

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made kind of the latter part of
his class.

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He kind of went a little tangent
for this one, but I think it was

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a good one was that we all know
that none of us is perfect in

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every single one of us is
struggling with something.

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We don’t always necessarily know
what that thing is that you’re

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struggling with, but if we can
all come to the table

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acknowledging that none of us
has it all figured out and even

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though we don’t necessarily have
to Reveal what we’re struggling

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with to every single person
because it can sometimes be very

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personal thing.
If we all come to the table

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every Sunday and we’re meeting
together realizing that every

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single one of us is struggling
with something you no longer

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have to feel that you’re
struggling with that something

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by yourself and it was sort of a
broader concept that even the

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subject of his class
specifically, but it was one of

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those kind of profound little
statements as he’s going through

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Kind of ties into it.
You can tell he’s digging into

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it near the end of the class.
So it was a really good one to

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listen to but it was just
something that I felt was really

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encouraging.
I know I’ve gone through it

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where you feel like you’re
struggling with something that

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feels bigger than yourself and
you’re trying to rely on God,

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but you know, sometimes you need
to know that you’re not by

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yourself and the point that
Dennis is making with his

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classes that and with his with
his comments at the end of this

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class.
Is that even though we might all

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be struggling with something
different at different times?

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And in different ways we’re all
struggling to try to follow

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after the example of Christ and
live up to the ideals that God

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has set before us together and I
found that to be a really

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comforting way to view it.
It’s he makes the point that

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it’s sometimes good to share
with somebody that you have that

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trust and that relationship with
that is something that is

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difficult to grow and develop
with every single person as much

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as we strive for that ideal.
So instead even if without

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revealing what you’re struggling
with you just acknowledge that

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each person that you’re with is
struggling with something.

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There is a camaraderie and a
fellowship in that sort of

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mutual struggle as we all strive
to try to be more like Christ

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walk the path that leads to the
kingdom really excited to share

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this class with you.
I really enjoyed it the whole

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series.
I’m almost done with the series

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in the series is great will be
making sure to get that up on

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the extended talks.
Later this week again apologies

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for it being a little bit later.
Really you can actually hear me

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make the intro this time instead
of there being nothing if I’d

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done it earlier in this week.
So with that we’ll turn it over

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to brother Dennis for his first
class on the disciple that Jesus

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loved.
I hope some of you have come

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excited to look for some nuggets
this morning.

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I look at Bible study as panning
for gold.

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There’s a lot of sloshing around
and sometimes what you find is

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not all that useful and other
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It’s the how did I not know that
10 20 30 40 years ago and if

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you’re consistently reading and
studying you find those moments

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and we’re going to pick up a
couple of them this morning.

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I love the idea that every time
we crack open the pages of

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scripture.
There’s I think we probably have

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read a dozen times that will be
brand new.

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That’s what makes it exciting.
So to get things started how

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many things did Jesus say from
the tree you want to take a

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guess but we’re allowed to do
group participation here, right?

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Apparently no because that are
all of you are in mime school.

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Yes.
Okay.

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How many things did Jesus say
from the tree seven very good.

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So if we look at the seven
things that Jesus said from the

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tree this would be an entirely
different class and we’re not

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going to do that.
But I want to focus on the

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fourth one Behold.
Thy mother in each of these

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Seven Things DJ Jesus was living
a teaching moment.

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He was giving a lesson that
could be applied immediately and

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it’s recorded so you and I can
hear Thousand Years Later get

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that same message in this fourth
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He was teaching the principle of
adoption the concept of taking

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care of the Ecclesia during its
darkest times in his absence.

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And for his sake specifically
John was being entrusted by

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Jesus to take care of his mother
Mary.

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Let’s look at John 19.
We’ll look that one up John

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Chapter 19, Verse 26 and 27.
When Jesus therefore saw his

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mother and the disciple standing
by whom he loved he said unto

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his mother woman Behold.
Thy son then saith he to the

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disciple Behold thy mother and
from that hour that disciple

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took her into his own home.
So let’s start with something

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really depressing.
Imagine for a minute you were

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dying.
It’s I know it’s depressing but

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think about if that’s too hard
imagine you’re going on a long

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vacation.
You’re going to be gone for a

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couple months.
And if it’s easier to do this

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thinking of watching your pets
versus watching your mother do

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what you have to do, but try to
get yourself in the place where

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you are where Jesus was he knows
what’s happening with him.

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He has reconciled his own
sacrifice and he is at one with

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his father mentally and
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Wouldn’t you if you were him be
concerned about but what happens

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to mom who I have always been
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If we think about it from that
point it gets us a chance to see

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a little bit of what Jesus would
have thought when he made these

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short little bursts and a reason
all seven of them are short is

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when you’re a crucified you
really are dying of Suffocation.

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That’s not blood loss short
breath get it is just enough out

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to make your point.
This is how Jesus saw his friend

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and his disciple John Mary was
handpicked by God as a teenager

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to raise his son to Perfection
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Jesus is handpicking John to
take care of Mary in her old age

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John therefore by virtue of this
decision becomes a surrogate

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family member to Jesus and
therefore an example to all of

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us taking care of the needs of
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It makes him extremely qualified
to write this letter.

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We are going to consider it’s a
good thing John wrote a few

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things because we can impair
compare his words to history and

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we shall let’s look a little bit
at John the Apostle.

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So his name means Grace of yah,
or Yaya has been gracious.

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He is called one of the sons of
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We won’t look that one up.
He was in business as a

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fisherman with his brother James
as well as with Peter and Andrew

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and as such was among the first
of the twelve called parents

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Zebedee and Salome.
He witnessed some key things in

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the life of Jesus the
resurrection of Jarius daughter.

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For example, the Transfiguration
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Kingdom.
The Olivet prophecy being

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explained the Last Supper The
Garden of Gethsemane the

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crucifixion as we already noted
and indeed the resurrection of

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Jesus.
He and Peter had a history

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together at started even before
the narrative began for us and

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it continued all the way till
Peter’s death and approximately

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ad 67.
Together they were noted for

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their Zeal and often times.
We see Peter at the forefoot.

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But John to was this way.
We’ll look at one verse that

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shows that this is Luke 9 + 54
And when his disciples James and

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John saw this they said Lord
wilt thou that we command fire

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to come down from heaven and
consume them even as Elias did

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so here we see the sons of
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They’re closer to their name and
you can imagine nothing caps off

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a successful preaching effort,
but better than electrocuting

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everyone who didn’t convert.
I mean think think about that

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power at their hand.
You don’t want to hear it.

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I’ve got a new message for you.
Let’s look at verse 10.

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Sorry Mark 10 in Mark 10 versus
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James and John the sons of
Zebedee came unto him saying

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Master we would that thou
shouldst do for us whatsoever.

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We use as iron and he said unto
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What would you that I should do
for you?

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He said Grant unto us that we
may sit one on my right hand and

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one on my left and I Glory these
flies are fun.

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And I showered this morning.
I there has to be somebody in

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this room.
That didn’t work Camp.

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Why are they around me?
All right, here here is right

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after Jesus tells them that he
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And die before Rising again.
But their focus is clearly not

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on him and his needs their focus
is on them and their needs and

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that makes it very interesting
to us because we focus on what

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we need and what we feel I’ve
said this before many of you

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have heard it.
I’m going to spit out a few

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things.
You probably heard me say before

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but you know what the difference
between major surgery and minor

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surgery is major surgery is when
it happens to me minor surgery

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is when it happens to you.
I know you had that little

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outpatient heart for surgery
yesterday.

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I had a pinky toe removed that
little nail had hose terrible

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three days could barely walk
because we think about us in our

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pain we tend to minimize the
pain of others and so here we

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see John understanding this in
himself because as he’s writing

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this as a much older more mature
spiritually man.

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He can learn some of the lessons
that we’re going through now and

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this is a way of sharing with
his family by putting our focus

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on ourselves.
We miss the opportunity to see

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somebody else’s pain part of a
collegial life is recognizing.

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My pain is not alone.
Everyone in this room is

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suffering from something.
I don’t know what it is.

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I don’t need to know what it is.
But I know that it’s true if we

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can acknowledge that we’re all
going through something

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together.
We are not going alone.

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So, of course in his youth Jesus
now rebukes them and the other

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disciples and they were all of
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were less than impressed, but it
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and that’s important because it
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Amo meant where one of us does
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not happy with if I have not
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in your life.
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It’s coming the same is also
true the odds of you

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disappointing me or there if we
spend any real time together the

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problem is That disappointment
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What do we do with it?
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That was 10 20 30 40 50 years
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Like they couldn’t possibly have
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we see it as an opportunity as a
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together that actually makes our
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Jesus life that make all of
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and very personal.
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taking out a John 21 will look
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says to Peter.
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love for me and Peter responds?
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for you and he says the same
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English, it looks like well, why
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question in English.
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the third time the word appears
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It it verse 17.
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for us to remember?
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Simon son of Jonah but lovest
thou me and Peter was grieved

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because into he said unto him
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this time.
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He doesn’t say do you have a
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He knows the answer to that one.
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affection for me and it Grieves
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true.
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about that whole exchange is
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Peter was he does?
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with you?
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self-sacrificing love.
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There’s he does not say that
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years later.
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would have been had Jesus not
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weakness knowing he would grow
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he gets to record it about his
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So it’s believed that the fourth
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the last one written most people
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70, but well before the Apostle
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is around a D90 so it would
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issues that the other three
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difficult in nature and they
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life.
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them understood when it happened
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prayer of John 17.
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personal faith in chapter 18 or
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as well as the most detailed
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time.
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disciples were confused and they
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and hindsight and of course the
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have aided him in this task of
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benefit.
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Peter turning about seeing the
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following which also leaned on
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Lord, which is he that betrayeth
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as the disciple whom Jesus loved
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Oh, which is the verb form of
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It’s the action word for
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him in the middle of these
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but he almost looks at it as an
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because he’s writing as an
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He couldn’t have wrote these
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right after the started writing
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looking back in his Shared State
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Jesus towards him and towards
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desperate time of need and
though all of them were utterly

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undeserving of that love.
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ourselves.
None of us comes to the table of

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the memorials and says you have
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I haven’t messed up at all.
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We all come to the table humbled
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includes and just imagining for
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Judgment seat of our Lord and
how surprising it will be to

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hear words that look past the
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We know we brought to that table
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weakest point.
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argument that we should start
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I’m not but we could the next
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detail with us the start of a
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the coming of the Kingdom.
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experience history and tradition
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oil by Dimension, but he
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to he’s not dying till Jesus
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He was then exiled on the Of
Patmos where he wrote the

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closing words of scripture and
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himself in the apocalypse.
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We know that was written in 1896
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of the work of Jesus in the
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out a people for his name loads
of connections to Genesis.

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It’s filled with references to
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of Exodus which will focus more
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week.
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part 1 to the apocalypse.
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depth of incredible knowledge as
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of his word and that’s how all
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Our days will end this series
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the Tabernacle in this letter
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into the Epistles. the very last
verse of scripture the grace of

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the Lord Jesus Christ be with
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Not only did John get the
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word of Jesus and the closing
comments of our father, but the

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last verse in scripture includes
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The grace John of the Lord Jesus
Christ be with you all.

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Amen.
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Let’s start with the material
you came here for that’s quite

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an introduction and I know that
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I have to keep resetting my
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Of the three Epistles.
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for good reason the other two
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and they showed direct
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But the first is the Baseline so
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picking out one thing here one
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built on the same comments.
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the truth in the Ecclesia, which
is all of our charge to make

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sure the precious truth survives
Our Generation to convey the

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concept of And studying our
Bible.

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It’s a critical thing to our
community to make sure we are

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always reading and studying so
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that path that leads to Life The
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the home and truly.
Our Ecclesia has are nothing

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more than a collection of
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Ecclesia has that shelters from
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together as a body.
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individual is the truth in the
individual and it speaks of our

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individual responsibility and
Once in the community We Serve

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All In The Name of Jesus.
So by the time John writes these

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he is the only surviving Apostle
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living Authority on living a
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And so we’ll start by dissenting
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That which was from the
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and we have seen with our eyes
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hands have handled of the word
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So we can notice some striking
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this verse to the original
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and verse 1 we all seek
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and the gospel and there’s a lot
of them will look up some some

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will just note as we move along
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Epistles were all building on
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foundation so in both cases,
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starting in John 1.
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really To the concept of God
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the path to the glory of God is
through Jesus whom John heard

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John saw and John handled.
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of life where the word was made
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among them and we beheld His
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Here’s just a couple of excerpts
from the gospel to connect this

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thought will start where he’s
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point John 7 verse 16 Where
Jesus said my Doctrine is not

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mine, but him that sent me we
could probably all Quote second

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Timothy 3 and 16 that’ll save us
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Why why is that so important
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perfect throughly furnished unto
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So it’s not just the Assembly of
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We don’t read and study just so
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Okay.
I’ve got one more note in my

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Bible one more Mark in my margin
one more nugget to share.

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Those are all good things.
A reason we do it is it supposed

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to develop in US character that
our works would be seen that the

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truth is changing all of us.
We’re all vessels that are work

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in progress.
So it’s not study to learn

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exclusively in Hyde is to study
to learn and apply that we might

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grow. his chapter 5 verse 36 but
I have greater witness than that

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of John for The Works, which the
father has given me to finish

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the same works that I do bear
witness of me that the father

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has sent me drop down to verse
39 search the scriptures for in

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them.
You think you have eternal life

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and they are they which testify
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So we’re thinking now of John
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chapter 1 if we would the
concept to search the scriptures

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to let the scriptures be where
we spend our time and energy

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that’s where the fruit is.
Now when he makes reference to

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the word being handled, where
does your mind go?

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Where do we where does your mind
go and talks about that we have

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seen upon looked upon and then
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Who are you thinking of?
Thomas somebody said I don’t

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know who it was.
But thank you giving me some

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help Thomas our mind goes back
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In fact, that word is only used
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This is the last one.
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Thomas Luke 24 verse 39, John is
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event in detail and he calls out
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None of us were eyewitnesses to
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all relate to that in some
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he’s writing to an audience that
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Verse 2 for the life was
manifested that we have seen it

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and bear witness and show unto
you that eternal life which was

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with us with us from the father
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The word show in the RSV is
proclaimed its the spirit of

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learning and sharing.
John 17 and 3 says this is life

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eternal that they might Know
Thee the only true God and Jesus

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Christ whom thou has sent and
it’s part of a recorded prayer

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later in verse 21 that says that
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father in me and I in thee this
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spirit.
This is when we can all be one

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with the father and the son
fulfilling that promise of

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filling the Earth with
exploring.

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It’s a stepping stone that we’re
all trying to work towards.

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A verse 3 that which you have
seen and heard declare we unto

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you that you also may have
fellowship with us and truly our

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fellowship is with the father
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This is the purpose of hearing
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purpose of that exercise is that
we might enjoy Fellowship not

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just with each other.
That’s the starting point we

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start with what we can see feel
and handle but the real purpose

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of this Fellowship is to be with
the father and the son that’s

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the whole point of this exercise
the first use of this word is

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Acts chapter 2 it is worth
looking at so we will Acts

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chapter 2 and verse 42 and they
continued steadfastly in the

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apostles Doctrine and fellowship
and in the breaking of bread and

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in prayers, so we come full
circle our role as we stated in

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00:26:38,400 –> 00:26:41,500
the Ecclesia as to make sure the
truth stays alive and we are

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attached to the apostles
doctrine that they heard that

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00:26:44,800 –> 00:26:49,500
they saw and they shared and
that same thing now must live in

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00:26:49,500 –> 00:26:51,800
our community.
By the way, we treat each other.

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00:26:52,000 –> 00:26:56,900
It’s a two-part peace knowing
the truth is only useful if it

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00:26:56,900 –> 00:26:58,400
leads us.
Live the truth.

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00:26:59,000 –> 00:27:03,300
That is what Fellowship is.
So logical question.

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00:27:03,700 –> 00:27:06,600
How can we live the truth?
How can we make sure the truth

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00:27:06,600 –> 00:27:09,200
is alive in our lives and in our
Ecclesia?

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00:27:09,300 –> 00:27:13,900
What can we do to make sure that
who I am represents in some

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00:27:13,900 –> 00:27:18,400
smallest measure the journey my
God is taking me on by learning

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00:27:18,400 –> 00:27:25,200
his word and changing my life.
I’m going to wear a bug zapper

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as a necklace.
Tomorrow’s in case anybody’s

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00:27:27,300 –> 00:27:34,700
wondering kesari first for these
things write we unto you that

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00:27:34,700 –> 00:27:38,300
your joy may be full the word
you’re in.

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The RSV is actually says our
that our joy may be full.

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It’s not for any other reason
that we read and study but to

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enjoy fellowship with each other
and with the father to the

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fullest extent possible.
So this then is the message

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which we have heard of him and
declare unto you that God is

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00:28:00,700 –> 00:28:03,500
light and in him is no Darkness
at all.

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So he starts with a nice warm up
and now we’re going to get to

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some me.
So the message is a word that’s

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used 53 53 times in the New
Testament.

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It’s not a rare word.
All the others are translated

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promise.
For example, eight of them are

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00:28:20,700 –> 00:28:25,500
in Galatians 3 talking about the
promises to Abraham a foundation

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00:28:25,500 –> 00:28:28,700
of the new A minute.
It’s a great tied to John

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00:28:28,700 –> 00:28:32,100
chapter 1 again verse 4 in him
was life.

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And the life was the light of
men.

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So God is light but light in and
of itself is not enough.

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We must be able to use it
blindness for example is not

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being able to see through the
light.

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We have to properly Focus the
light through our eye to our

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brain for that light to have any
value to me.

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This is a great tie to Genesis
chapter 1 Let’s Have Some Fun.

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00:29:02,400 –> 00:29:06,000
In Genesis chapter one in the
beginning God created the Heaven

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and the Earth great.
We know that verse verse 3 God

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00:29:08,700 –> 00:29:11,100
said let there be light and
there was light know that verse

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verse 16.
God made two great lights a

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00:29:14,100 –> 00:29:16,700
lesser light to Rule the Day a
greater light to Rule the Day

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00:29:16,900 –> 00:29:18,600
and the Lesser light to rule the
night.

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00:29:18,700 –> 00:29:20,600
So we know this story we’ve
talked about it.

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00:29:20,600 –> 00:29:24,200
This is not new material, but I
want us to focus in on this in

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the Hebrew the words change when
we get to day 4 and I’m happy to

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00:29:27,708 –> 00:29:29,800
have this conversation
separately if you want to do it

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00:29:29,800 –> 00:29:30,900
later.
I’m not going to take too much

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00:29:30,900 –> 00:29:35,700
time in this class.
But in day for we have the

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source of the light is visible,
but the sun was not created on

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day four.
The Hebrew word is not create

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00:29:43,400 –> 00:29:48,200
the word is appointed.
And so the light of day one was

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still the Sun but it could not
be seen it was not visible until

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the fourth day.
So hold that thought for a

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minute.
We’re going to focus on the

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brightest and most focal point
in our universe.

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It’s a constant without the And
warmth of the sun there would be

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no life, but notice it includes
something of this lesser light

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to rule the world in darkness
the Moon.

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What do we know about the Moon?
It has no light of its own

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00:30:17,400 –> 00:30:20,200
essentially.
It is a giant reflector in the

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00:30:20,200 –> 00:30:22,500
sky.
So when Jesus says if you’ve

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00:30:22,500 –> 00:30:25,800
seen me you’ve seen the father
it’s he was a reflection of the

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glory of God.
We want to be the bride that

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00:30:29,508 –> 00:30:33,300
seeks fellowship with those two
greats like two great lights as

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a bride preparing to be one with
Jesus.

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00:30:35,200 –> 00:30:39,600
We need to reflect that same
glory of the father so that

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00:30:39,600 –> 00:30:42,700
people can see in Us in some
measure that same Glory that was

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00:30:42,700 –> 00:30:47,100
seen in Him, but what gets in
the way of you and I being a

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00:30:47,100 –> 00:30:49,400
perfect reflector of the glory
of God.

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00:30:52,700 –> 00:30:58,200
The world the Earth is what gets
in the way now our lives are

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00:30:58,200 –> 00:31:00,800
different and we said all of us
is going through something and I

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00:31:00,808 –> 00:31:02,300
don’t know what you’re going
through.

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00:31:02,500 –> 00:31:05,500
I don’t know if right now you’re
a full moon and the reflection

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00:31:05,500 –> 00:31:09,000
of God’s glory is shining bright
in your life or if you’re that

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00:31:09,000 –> 00:31:12,200
little thumbnail moon on by
behind me where there is a

517
00:31:12,200 –> 00:31:15,300
little bit there, but it’s hard
to see if you don’t know me very

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00:31:15,300 –> 00:31:17,200
well.
We all go through different

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00:31:17,200 –> 00:31:20,300
points in our life where
sometimes we’re on a spiritual

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00:31:20,300 –> 00:31:22,300
high and it feels like
everything.

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00:31:22,500 –> 00:31:25,900
Thing we read excites us every
time we were with our brothers

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00:31:25,900 –> 00:31:29,400
and sisters, we’re happy and
then there’s other times when

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00:31:29,400 –> 00:31:33,300
it’s a struggle to go to meeting
when the readings feel like a

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00:31:33,300 –> 00:31:36,200
burden but it’s something we
have to do not something we look

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00:31:36,200 –> 00:31:39,800
forward and want to do and maybe
doesn’t happen to anybody else.

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00:31:39,800 –> 00:31:44,100
But I know that’s happened to me
and the common denominator every

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00:31:44,100 –> 00:31:47,000
time I felt my life was starting
to get darker.

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00:31:47,300 –> 00:31:50,700
It’s because the world had taken
more than its fair share of my

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00:31:50,700 –> 00:31:53,900
vision.
It was an opportunity to look to

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00:31:54,200 –> 00:31:57,200
not be able to see through to
the glory of the father because

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00:31:57,200 –> 00:32:01,100
I was a partial moon or maybe
even it sometimes a full

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00:32:01,100 –> 00:32:04,300
eclipse.
So we get that reference we want

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00:32:04,300 –> 00:32:07,400
to make sure we understand
that’s what made Jesus a perfect

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00:32:07,400 –> 00:32:11,100
reflection of his father.
The world did not get in his way

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00:32:11,100 –> 00:32:14,700
like it does for us did he know
it was there absolutely was

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00:32:14,700 –> 00:32:18,100
tempted in all points like as we
are but he was able to maintain

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00:32:18,100 –> 00:32:22,900
focus on preserving the light of
the Father the exhortation to

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00:32:22,900 –> 00:32:26,800
all of us that we continue to
preserve that light.

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00:32:28,400 –> 00:32:32,900
Second Corinthians 4 verse 6
says for God who commanded the

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00:32:32,900 –> 00:32:36,300
light to shine out of Darkness
hath shined in our hearts to

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00:32:36,300 –> 00:32:40,500
give the light of knowledge of
the glory of God in the face of

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00:32:40,500 –> 00:32:43,700
Jesus Christ.
There’s another crate section of

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00:32:43,700 –> 00:32:46,800
verses in Chapter 2.
So hold the thought we’ll talk

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00:32:46,800 –> 00:32:54,900
about that one more tomorrow.
First six if we say we have

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00:32:54,900 –> 00:32:57,200
fellowship with him and walk in
darkness.

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We lie and do not the truth the
RSV ends at this way.

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00:33:01,200 –> 00:33:04,300
We lie and do not live according
to the truth.

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00:33:05,100 –> 00:33:09,500
If the truth is not manifest in
how we behave towards each other

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00:33:09,900 –> 00:33:15,300
we effectively are lying about
who we are darkness is according

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00:33:15,300 –> 00:33:17,000
to the Flesh and the world
around us.

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00:33:17,400 –> 00:33:20,600
We know the world has an impact
minimizing that impact.

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00:33:20,600 –> 00:33:25,200
Thank you minimizing that Impact
is what’s important and how we

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00:33:25,200 –> 00:33:29,300
do that is held by us working
together when I might be

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00:33:29,300 –> 00:33:32,100
struggling it’s good.
If one of you is not and you can

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00:33:32,100 –> 00:33:35,300
help pick me up because you
never know that Cycles coming

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00:33:35,300 –> 00:33:38,300
back and you might need that
pick up when you’re struggling

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00:33:38,700 –> 00:33:42,000
and I might be the one that can
help lift you if we don’t have

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00:33:42,000 –> 00:33:46,300
that attitude our life is an
eclipse and our fellowship is

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00:33:46,300 –> 00:33:48,500
useless.
And therefore our Doctrine is

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00:33:48,500 –> 00:33:51,100
voided.
So it’s critical that Doctrine

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00:33:51,100 –> 00:33:53,800
be the basis for fellow.
Oh Ship but for it to be

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00:33:53,800 –> 00:33:58,600
meaningful to our God we must
live according to that doctrine

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00:33:58,600 –> 00:34:02,600
of Truth this is not a new
testament concept this is

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00:34:02,600 –> 00:34:04,900
actually a very old testament
concept, hold on I know what’s

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00:34:04,900 –> 00:34:10,900
going to happen This is actually
a very old testament concept.

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00:34:10,900 –> 00:34:13,400
Let’s turn to Leviticus chapter
19.

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00:34:17,500 –> 00:34:24,900
Leviticus chapter 19 and verse 2
speed under the congregation of

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the children of Israel and say
unto them.

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00:34:27,500 –> 00:34:30,800
You shall be holy for I the Lord
your God am Holy.

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00:34:32,699 –> 00:34:33,900
Thank you.
I’m good.

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00:34:34,199 –> 00:34:38,199
Thank you very much.
This is an exhortation to

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00:34:38,199 –> 00:34:40,600
reflect the father.
In fact, it’s repeated again in

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00:34:40,600 –> 00:34:43,600
Leviticus 20 verse 7 and 20
verse 26.

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00:34:43,600 –> 00:34:46,800
That’s the Hebrew exclamation
point say it a bunch of times.

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00:34:46,800 –> 00:34:50,000
That means it’s important.
The gospel says it in this way

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00:34:50,000 –> 00:34:53,199
in John chapter 3 will pick up
at verse 19.

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00:34:53,699 –> 00:34:57,500
This is the condemnation that
light is come into the world and

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00:34:57,500 –> 00:35:01,000
Men loved Darkness rather than
light because their deeds were

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00:35:01,000 –> 00:35:04,400
evil everyone that doeth evil
hateth the light neither cometh

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00:35:04,400 –> 00:35:06,200
to the light lest.
His deeds should be reproved.

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00:35:06,400 –> 00:35:10,200
Proved but he that doeth truth
cometh to the light that his

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00:35:10,200 –> 00:35:13,400
deeds may be made manifest that
they are wrought in God.

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00:35:14,100 –> 00:35:18,400
So we have a choice to make the
exhortation is to choose light

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00:35:18,500 –> 00:35:21,900
to choose the light of Truth in
reflecting the glory of the

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00:35:21,900 –> 00:35:26,200
father as opposed to the
darkness of the world our nature

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00:35:26,300 –> 00:35:30,200
defaults to Darkness.
We will not accidentally glorify

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00:35:30,200 –> 00:35:32,600
the father just because that’s
how good we are.

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00:35:33,100 –> 00:35:37,800
We will default to the world
around us it Must be intentional

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00:35:38,200 –> 00:35:41,000
and that’s why it’s such a focal
point here in the in the

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00:35:41,000 –> 00:35:45,400
epistle.
Verse 7 is the crowning

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00:35:45,400 –> 00:35:50,400
statement if we walk in light as
he is the light we have

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00:35:50,400 –> 00:35:55,000
Fellowship one with another and
the blood of Jesus Christ.

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00:35:55,300 –> 00:35:57,500
His son cleanses us from all
sin.

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00:35:58,700 –> 00:36:03,800
That’s the if we get the choice,
but if we choose right we not

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00:36:03,800 –> 00:36:07,600
only enjoy Fellowship together,
but we are covered by the blood

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00:36:07,600 –> 00:36:11,600
of the Lamb the conditions of
this cleaning or the next couple

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00:36:11,600 –> 00:36:15,200
verses.
If we say we have no sin, we

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00:36:15,200 –> 00:36:17,600
deceive ourselves and the truth
is not in US.

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00:36:18,600 –> 00:36:24,300
It is amazing how much we think
people will buy it if you

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00:36:24,300 –> 00:36:26,800
sometimes catch yourself doing
this it’s so easy to catch in

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00:36:26,800 –> 00:36:29,600
other people so I know you’re
going to get the comment but we

602
00:36:29,600 –> 00:36:33,100
do this all the time.
We tell somebody a story we

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00:36:33,100 –> 00:36:37,200
think they’ll believe and what
you think I’ll believe is

604
00:36:37,200 –> 00:36:40,600
sometimes comical and what I
think you might believe is

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00:36:40,600 –> 00:36:44,100
sometimes comical you I think it
was JPMorgan that said there’s

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00:36:44,100 –> 00:36:45,900
two reasons a person would do or
not.

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00:36:45,900 –> 00:36:49,600
Do a thing the real one can On
the think sounds good.

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00:36:50,700 –> 00:36:53,900
And we spin it away.
We think might sound good like,

609
00:36:54,000 –> 00:36:57,100
you know, the veneer of my life
looks pretty good.

610
00:36:57,100 –> 00:36:59,200
I it’s not like you’re miserable
sinful life.

611
00:37:00,300 –> 00:37:03,300
I know better, you know better.
I’m still trying to sell you

612
00:37:03,300 –> 00:37:07,200
that my life’s.
Okay, if we think we have no

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00:37:07,200 –> 00:37:10,400
sin, we deceive ourselves.
We’re not really fooling anyone

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00:37:10,400 –> 00:37:15,600
else because sin is nothing more
than to miss the mark when we

615
00:37:15,600 –> 00:37:19,700
miss that Mark of perfection a
perfect reflection of the father

616
00:37:20,300 –> 00:37:25,200
we have sinned.
We all know Romans 6 Romans 3

617
00:37:25,200 –> 00:37:28,400
puts it this way Romans 3:23 for
all have sinned and come short

618
00:37:28,400 –> 00:37:31,700
of the glory of God.
We even know the verse but yet

619
00:37:31,700 –> 00:37:35,600
we put on that show like we’re
doing it just right to fool

620
00:37:35,600 –> 00:37:38,600
ourselves fools.
No one else.

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00:37:39,200 –> 00:37:46,400
Whoops verse 9 if we confess our
sins and here is the next if see

622
00:37:46,400 –> 00:37:49,100
there’s a choice instead of
hiding them in pretending

623
00:37:49,100 –> 00:37:51,200
they’re not there and putting on
the best display.

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00:37:51,200 –> 00:37:57,100
I can if we confess them.
He is faithful and just to

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00:37:57,100 –> 00:38:00,000
forgive our sins and cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.

626
00:38:00,800 –> 00:38:04,100
Our God knows our sins.
He knows we’re not righteous.

627
00:38:04,100 –> 00:38:07,900
He knows we are a terrible
reflection of his glory and yet

628
00:38:07,900 –> 00:38:11,300
he loves us.
Anyways now he expects us to try

629
00:38:11,300 –> 00:38:14,400
to improve That reflection it’s
not unconditional.

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00:38:15,500 –> 00:38:19,500
But our God loves us and wants
us to reflect him.

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He is faithful and just and
that’s one of the most beautiful

632
00:38:23,400 –> 00:38:27,200
characteristics of our father
one thing that we as human

633
00:38:27,200 –> 00:38:30,200
beings do not do very well this
side of the Kingdom.

634
00:38:30,800 –> 00:38:38,300
It’s that balance between mercy
and judgment between Justice and

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00:38:38,300 –> 00:38:41,600
love because we tend to lean one
way or the other some of us are

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00:38:41,600 –> 00:38:44,800
more loving and we sacrifice
Judgment at times when we

637
00:38:44,800 –> 00:38:48,800
shouldn’t In others of us are
more judgmental and we sacrifice

638
00:38:48,800 –> 00:38:52,800
the opportunities for loves love
when we shouldn’t again a good

639
00:38:52,800 –> 00:38:55,800
reason that our God has called
us together as a community

640
00:38:55,900 –> 00:38:57,500
because we’re all out of
balance.

641
00:38:57,900 –> 00:39:00,200
But if you’re out of balance
this way and I’m out of balance

642
00:39:00,200 –> 00:39:02,700
this way.
Guess what we’re balancing each

643
00:39:02,700 –> 00:39:05,100
other.
That’s what the Ecclesia is

644
00:39:05,100 –> 00:39:09,900
designed for to cleanse us from
our unrighteousness by working

645
00:39:09,900 –> 00:39:13,500
together through it improving
our reflection of the glory of

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00:39:13,500 –> 00:39:17,700
God.
The Judgment of God is always

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00:39:17,700 –> 00:39:20,500
righteous.
We have confidence that it will

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00:39:20,500 –> 00:39:24,300
always be righteous.
We know it is the god that

649
00:39:24,300 –> 00:39:28,500
exists not the God we want it’s
up to us to conform to what our

650
00:39:28,500 –> 00:39:32,100
God requires not to get him to
conform.

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00:39:32,100 –> 00:39:35,400
What we think is right.
We’ve got to make sure we put

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00:39:35,400 –> 00:39:40,100
God in his right place and then
submit to him hardest thing for

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all of us including Jesus to do
the last thing he had to conquer

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was Total submission to the will
of his father that we struggle

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with that should not be a
surprise but our prayers like

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Jesus must be open and specific
to our god in public.

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00:39:56,900 –> 00:40:00,100
They’re a little generic has to
be but to our god.

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It’s not the generic forgive me
for my sins.

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It’s the opportunity to be open
and specific to our god to let

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him know that we know that we
need his help.

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Oh, he knows we need we need we
need his help.

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But we need to let him know that
we need his help.

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Our natural tendency is to fool
each other and I believe even

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try to fool Our God in prayer
and as delusional as that sound

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00:40:28,200 –> 00:40:30,600
if you’re honest with yourself,
you might be going might be a

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00:40:30,600 –> 00:40:32,600
little guilt.
That’s the little hand on the

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inside.
Not the Hallelujah moment.

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Grow cop put it this way.
I love this verse in be

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transformed.
I think it’s volume 1 that the

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Ecclesia is a hospital for
Sinners.

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Not a museum for Saints.
It’s an opportunity for us to

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look at each other.
And I don’t recommend we change

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our normal greeting to high
Center good to see you.

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I’m not suggesting we do that
but I recognize you’re going to

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be struggling with something and
you know, I’m struggling with

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00:41:01,400 –> 00:41:05,300
something to I don’t have to
call it out as much as we can

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00:41:05,300 –> 00:41:09,100
know and if we know that we’re
struggling together, it lightens

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00:41:09,100 –> 00:41:12,200
the burden of both of us and
we’ll see that as a theme.

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Is this begins to grow?
There is no forgiveness without

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honesty honesty starts the
Forgiveness process.

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00:41:21,800 –> 00:41:25,500
How much do I allow to the world
to interfere with my reflection

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00:41:25,500 –> 00:41:30,200
of the glory of God the answer?
That’s different for all of us

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00:41:31,100 –> 00:41:34,200
honest reflection of where we
are before.

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00:41:34,200 –> 00:41:39,900
Our father is critical for us to
forgive and we see this even in

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00:41:39,900 –> 00:41:44,300
our own relationships when a
relationship has a difficult

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00:41:44,300 –> 00:41:47,600
time and I don’t care if it’s a
friendship parent to child child

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to parent husband to wife
brother to sister every

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00:41:51,200 –> 00:41:54,400
relationship when it hits a
difficult spot has the

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opportunity to be forever
severed or to be repaired.

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00:41:59,100 –> 00:42:03,000
The time it takes to repair
usually determines on how much

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better the relationship is if we
have failed each other and we

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00:42:06,800 –> 00:42:09,900
reconcile quickly and start
building oftentimes that

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00:42:09,900 –> 00:42:13,800
relationship gets stronger and
when we delay that by years or

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00:42:13,800 –> 00:42:17,200
decades, it doesn’t mean it
cannot be repaired, but it’s

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00:42:17,200 –> 00:42:21,400
harder and it’s harder to make
that relationship anything like

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00:42:21,400 –> 00:42:25,200
it was before but the quicker we
are honest with ourselves and

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00:42:25,200 –> 00:42:28,000
with each other and more
importantly with our God the

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00:42:28,000 –> 00:42:32,500
quicker we move.
Some honesty to forgiveness and

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00:42:32,500 –> 00:42:34,700
we have that chance to see it
amongst ourselves.

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00:42:34,700 –> 00:42:37,300
So we know what it likes looked
like on God’s end.

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The ability to forgive is there
it is up to us to follow the

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00:42:42,300 –> 00:42:44,800
prescription.
It is not up to us to write the

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00:42:44,800 –> 00:42:49,400
prescription Our God will grant
the Forgiveness.

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00:42:50,400 –> 00:42:53,100
He can cleanse us from our
unrighteousness.

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00:42:53,700 –> 00:42:59,200
It’s a matter of faith in
practice that matters and so as

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we come towards the end of this
first chapter we get some very

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interesting language that paints
a great picture.

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We say we have not sinned we
make him a liar and his word is

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00:43:12,100 –> 00:43:16,800
not in us and this word liar is
a word only use 10 times in the

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New Testament seven of them are
by John.

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00:43:19,700 –> 00:43:23,500
So it’s one of the words that he
focuses on and this really comes

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down to living the lie not
recognizing my sin.

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00:43:28,800 –> 00:43:33,100
Oh, I can point yours out but –
if I’m not capable of

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00:43:33,100 –> 00:43:38,100
recognizing my sin and coming to
your sin knowing I’m The Sinner

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00:43:38,200 –> 00:43:45,400
R2 I am living a lie, that’s the
danger to all of us individually

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00:43:45,400 –> 00:43:49,600
and Ecclesia lie, and if we are
living that lie, we’re making

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00:43:49,700 –> 00:43:53,800
our God a liar because his word
is not in us.

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00:43:54,800 –> 00:43:58,800
Let’s peek ahead to one verse
later in this epistle because I

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think it’s appropriate to the
context.

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This is chapter 4 verse 20.
We’ll just look at it for a

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moment.
We’ll get there in a couple

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00:44:05,200 –> 00:44:10,200
days.
But if a man say I love God and

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hateth his brother.
He is a liar.

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00:44:11,900 –> 00:44:16,000
He puts it pretty clear for he
that loveth not his brother whom

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he has seen, how can he love God
whom he has not seen.

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00:44:21,300 –> 00:44:24,100
We’ll go into it in more detail
in a couple days.

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00:44:24,800 –> 00:44:28,700
But I want to emphasize the
demonstration of our love in how

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00:44:28,700 –> 00:44:32,800
we treat each other is Paramount
and living the truth human

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00:44:32,800 –> 00:44:36,400
beings as we are it’s often more
difficult when we disagree or

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00:44:36,400 –> 00:44:40,400
don’t understand one another but
it is pivotal to preserving the

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00:44:40,408 –> 00:44:44,800
truth in the last day the love
must be present.

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00:44:45,500 –> 00:44:48,100
But there’s more the world is
watching us.

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God is awesome.
But can’t his people sometimes

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00:44:51,700 –> 00:44:56,100
be pretty miserable.
We all can how many people have

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00:44:56,100 –> 00:44:59,700
been killed in the name of God
for the last few thousand years.

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They weren’t doing the work of
God.

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00:45:01,700 –> 00:45:04,600
They thought they were but the
love was absent.

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00:45:05,800 –> 00:45:11,300
We cannot live the truth and
make we have to live the truth

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00:45:11,300 –> 00:45:14,700
or we make our God a liar to the
world around us.

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00:45:15,400 –> 00:45:19,900
It requires honest reflection.
Loving Fellowship based on sound

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00:45:19,900 –> 00:45:22,800
Doctrine letting the word live
in our walk.

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00:45:22,900 –> 00:45:25,900
We’ll only will not only show
God’s glory to Those whom we

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00:45:25,900 –> 00:45:30,600
meet but it’ll also declare the
truthfulness of the father and

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00:45:30,600 –> 00:45:33,500
what a wonderful and awesome
responsibility.

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00:45:33,500 –> 00:45:37,800
That is But you and I are given
the privilege and

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00:45:37,800 –> 00:45:42,600
responsibility.
To live the truth for the sake

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00:45:43,000 –> 00:45:48,300
of the honesty of the heavenly
father but alas, there’s no sign

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00:45:48,300 –> 00:45:51,000
over us that declares.
This one’s righteous.

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00:45:51,700 –> 00:45:54,300
This one’s a walking
representation of sin, but we

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00:45:54,300 –> 00:45:57,700
don’t have that.
Thankfully this side of the

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00:45:57,700 –> 00:45:59,600
Judgment seat.
We must have seen each other

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00:45:59,600 –> 00:46:03,600
greater than ourselves.
We preserve the love of God in

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00:46:03,600 –> 00:46:08,200
our life in our attitude and we
do that by how we work together.

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00:46:09,400 –> 00:46:14,300
I honestly believe that that is
why God didn’t stop it Adam.

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00:46:15,800 –> 00:46:20,300
He made more than one so that we
could learn to love the

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00:46:20,300 –> 00:46:25,600
unlovable because that’s what
our God does for us on a daily

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00:46:25,600 –> 00:46:29,800
basis.
When I disappoint you and I

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00:46:29,800 –> 00:46:35,600
deserve to lose some of your
affection. what now you get to

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00:46:35,600 –> 00:46:40,700
play is the role that God shares
when you don’t deserve his and I

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00:46:40,700 –> 00:46:46,000
think that’s why the Ecclesia is
in existence so that we can work

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00:46:46,000 –> 00:46:50,300
through these challenges
learning to love the unlovable

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00:46:51,000 –> 00:46:56,900
to preserve the faith because
the alternative is to make God a

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00:46:56,900 –> 00:47:01,900
liar and so with that I’ll let
you think on this one for a

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00:47:01,900 –> 00:47:13,100
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