062: James Flint – Love the Lord Your God

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So that’s called love Lord your
God by brother James Flint.

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He gave it last year at a
conference called nce W in

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Australia.
I really enjoyed this class.

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It’s part 3 of I guess the study
for the whole weekend was on the

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Shema and it’s a beautiful kind
of quick study of the of that

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phrase and then the and then
specifically just how

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transformative it.
When you in our life when we

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truly do love the Lord Our God
with all our heart.

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It’s interesting coming from
brother James.

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He has a lot of very practical
experience in the mission field.

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He doesn’t mention it.
But he was involved in with the

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egg pay and action Chris Sofia
nonprofit in the work that they

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do so you can he he kind of does
demonstrate also in his actions

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what that transformation can be
like I found this class to be

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very encouraging a very
well-rounded.

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And I’m excited to share it.
Please continue with your

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listening.
Here is love the Lord your God

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by James Flint.
So very good evening everyone.

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We come to love in the Shema.
This is really a central part of

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this section of Deuteronomy 6
verse 4 and what a great section

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for us to be considering this
weekend it really so aptly Moses

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so aptly and succinctly sums up
the entire.

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Spirit of the law in this one
verse the really the whole

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intent to what God intends to
develop in us his children this

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of course is the greatest
commandment Deuteronomy 6 verse

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4 and Jesus affirms this in the
New Testament and upon this

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commandment.
He says and the related

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commandment to love one another
love our neighbor as ourself

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hang all the law and the
prophets so it really is a

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central tenet of our faith.
It’s the first principle of all

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our first principles and I think
it’s something we don’t spend

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enough time considering this
verse in Deuteronomy chapter 6.

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It’s so fundamental as the
pivotal verse for our lives in

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Christ.
So it’s very fitting that we are

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spending some time this weekend
looking at this important verse

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and tonight.
We’re going to look at love and

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consider the meaning of this
word and really try to make it

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practical and and Think through
how we can develop this love in

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our own lives because there’s is
absolutely critical.

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It’s a critical part of what it
is to be a follower of the Lord

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Jesus today.
And the reason why this section

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of the scriptures is so exciting
is because it has an incredible

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power to transform us.
It has the power to transform

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life filled with apathy and
emptiness to one filled with

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purpose.
And passion is right here in

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this fourth verse of Deuteronomy
chapter 6 and love the love that

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is mentioned in this verse is
really the secret ingredient

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that has the power and the
potential to catalyze this a

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remarkable transformation that
we read about in Romans chapter

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12, and I don’t know if you’ve
ever met one of those people

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that is So on fire for God so
radiant and so open and

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expressing their love for God
for him.

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They are driven and they’re
motivated.

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They’re committed to service and
to sacrifice.

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Well, we don’t have to stand
back in or at these people we

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can be that person.
We can be completely committed

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and we should be completely
committed and purpose-driven in

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our lives today being passionate
about what we put our hands to

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and being fully committed to God
and I remember my first trip

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into the mission Fields into the
camera and many years ago in

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West Africa went with an older
brother and sister though in

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their late 70s and had been
going to this part of the world

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for years and it was a difficult
place to go.

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I remembered couldn’t Wait to
get out of there.

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When I was there.
The place was really tense.

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There was on the verge of Civil
War.

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There are tanks going down the
streets.

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There was this tension you could
feel in the air.

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It wasn’t a nice place to be it
wasn’t easy and yet so committed

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with his older brother and
sister are still Marvel at their

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little love and commitment to
the work of serving our brothers

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and sisters in this part of the
world.

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And while we were there they
were that were beaten and robbed

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at gunpoint.
Point and yet they were

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undeterred in their love and
commitment to this work their

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lives really revolved around
this mission that they had taken

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on that was their service that
they chose for their heavenly

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father and it’s only love is
only a deep committed love that

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can result in this sort of life.
That is completely given over to

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our Heavenly Father.
And that’s exactly what God

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wants to see in all of us is to
develop further develop this

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really committed love for him.
I love that is demonstrated in

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in action.
And we as we know after a

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baptism, we are a new creation
and I think we often settle for

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making a few minor behavioral
adjustments in our lives, but

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we’re called to radically
transform Our Lives as Paul says

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in Romans.
As 12 we should be transformed

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by the renewing of our minds.
And the essential prerequisite

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for any sort of change any sort
of transformation in our lives

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is first we need to develop this
love for God is all-consuming

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love loving him with all of our
heart our soul and our might so

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let’s take a closer.
Look at this word love in this

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section of the scriptures.
It is the word a hover or have

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and it means to give to desire
to breathe after to delight and

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it’s a spontaneous and natural
sort of love.

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It’s not one that is forced or
obligated.

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It’s a love which originates and
emanates from God is part of his

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character and it’s from the root
word.

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Which means I will give And it’s
both a feeling and an action.

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It’s a broad word that captures
the love of a father to his

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child a husband to his wife a
close between close friends or

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companions is the love which has
used to describe Abraham’s

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feelings for Isaac.
Jonathan’s for David gods for

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his people.
It’s not a deliberate deliberate

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love that scare said it’s not a
brotherly love.

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That’s her harm.
It’s not a love of obligation.

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That’s Hova.
It’s a intimate warm deep

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emotional love.
It’s the love that Rachel Jacob

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had for Rachel.
Jacob had a hover for Rachel,

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but for Leah he had Hoover and a
love of obligation or

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responsibility.
It’s the love which leads a

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person to give spontaneously and
to give more than they expect to

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receive.
It’s a love that’s holy and

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deeply from where the end and if
you’re a parent and ever

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wandered into your child’s room
at night when they’re sleeping,

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you know, this love it’s a love
that can’t really be described.

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It has to be felt.
And it’s a love which develops

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as can only develop if you truly
know and feel connected to

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somebody.
It’s not a love that can be

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commanded.
It’s not a love that you can

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concoct or through will power
can come up with but it is a

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love that deepens as the
relationship becomes closer and

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more intimate. and Moses tells
us to use this laughs however to

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love our God with all of our
heart soul and might So brothers

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and sisters, there’s got to be
feeling in our love for God.

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It’s got to be rooted in
Emotion.

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God doesn’t want a
transactional.

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Obligated intellectual love he
wants an emotional passionate

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love that is expressed in
action.

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And we have to ask yourself.
How much emotion how much

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feeling is there in our hearts
when it comes to our God?

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Last week I was in Mozambique.
I was in a refugee camp there.

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We have a little work Leisure is
about 20 brothers and sisters

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and about 20 young people and
children in this Ecclesia.

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They’re being in this Camp many
of them for over 15 years.

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They’ll fled from conflict zones
in the Congo in Rwanda and in

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Burundi that been really kind of
shuttled from one place to

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another they’ve traveled
thousands of miles to get to

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this camp in.
And really they’re in a very

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hopeless situation there less
than 2% of people get

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repatriated or migrate through
the unhcr most of them are stuck

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there for life and it’s not an
easy place to live.

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They can’t work.
They can’t practice their

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professions that extremely
restricted in what they can do

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in this camp that completely
dependent on handouts from the

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world food programme and
sometimes seems there’s an

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interruption in the food supply
and they just don’t get food.

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But when I was there sitting in
there a little occlusal whole

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and listening to them sing.
I’ve never experienced such

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emotion expressed in song.
It was absolutely beautiful.

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They sang from deep within their
souls and it really choked me

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up.
It brought tears to my eyes as

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being with these humble brothers
and sisters and just listening

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and watching them praise their
Heavenly Father.

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So in a completely hopeless
situation, they were so filled

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with hope they were so thankful
for their lives.

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So appreciative that God had
rescued them from even War

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situation and provided them in a
place of peace.

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That was a hover that was his
emotion is love which just

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poured out of them.
That’s a love of Deuteronomy 6

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verse 4 and we may not all be
able to sing with this sort of

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emotion.
We’re not all wide in that way,

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but we can also Express.
We should all Express feeling

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towards our heavenly father in
one way or another Even in our

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conversation.
We can express feeling in our

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prayers.
They can be heartfelt.

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And we need to try to develop
this this sort of love in our

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relationship with our heavenly
father.

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So the question for us to
reflect on is is really do we

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love him with this intimate this
emotional love do we feel that

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connection with our heavenly
father?

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Do we breathe after him?
Do we desire to get to know him

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more and more deeply to please
him more completely.

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Is he on our minds constantly
every day.

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I know for myself.
I often do things these actions

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based more out of a love of
obligation or sense of Duty and

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I don’t know if you are similar.
Do we give of our time and

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energies to God out of however
or Hova?

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Is it a feeling and a response a
natural inclination or is it a

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sense of Duty and obligation?
Do we serve in the closure with

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what sort of Love do we 10 Bible
class?

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Do we read our Bibles?
Do we study the Bible?

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Do we visit the sick?
Do we provide Hospitality out of

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a half-hour or out of an
obligated love?

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Know when we think of loving
God.

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We often think of the all their
loving God with all of our

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heart.
So I might we often think of

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that all is a quantitative
measure how much we love God and

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give to him but there’s also a
qualitative element to that word

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all as well and we can recall in
Malachi that the children of

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Israel.
They had despised God by

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offering the Blind and the lame
now they were giving their

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tithe.
They were carefully making sure

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they measured out one tenth of
everything.

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Can we giving it to God so from
a quantitative point of view

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they were giving everything that
we’re giving all the tide the

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10% however They weren’t giving
all because Malachi calls them

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to give all of the tithe to God.
So it was a qualitative sense

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that there were failing in and
we know they were offering their

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leftovers are blind and the lame
that we’re giving the poor

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quality things to God.
So in that sense, they weren’t

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giving their all to God.
So it is also about the quality

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of what we give not just the
amount of what we give and God

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interpreted their offering is
despising him and he treated his

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evil those offerings is evil.
So Malachi cause them to bring

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all of the tithes to him to give
in the right Spirit to give

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their very best out of
appreciation for everything God

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has done for them.
And if they did this God

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promises that in turn he would
even give more a however.

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He said he would give so much he
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they wouldn’t have enough room
to store all the blessings he

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pour out on them So when we hold
back selfishly, we don’t give

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our best.
It’s really the very opposite of

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what this word a hover means
this word.

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Love love have a means to give
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the opposite of what God wants.
So it’s not so much about what

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or how much we give but it’s
also about why it’s that

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attitude why we give why we
serve the motives behind our

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actions that we know is so
important and that is what this

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word love is all about.
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However, if it’s given
half-heartedly out of

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obligation.
Is evil in God’s mind and if

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we’re serving in the Ecclesia,
but wishing we were somewhere

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else if we’re giving but
reluctantly doing so if we’re

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rushing through our readings or
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Then it’s evil.
That’s how God sees it and and

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when you think about it, it’s
really so ridiculous.

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It’s outrageous that we can be
so selfish when it comes to

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giving to God that we can hold
back and give him our leftovers

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of time and energy resources
after everything.

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He has given to us the Abundant
love he’s shown to us and yet we

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respond at times holding back
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And justifiably is offensive to
God and he is the kicker if we

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do respond with generosity with
this a hovel of if we Delight to

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give our very best to God he
promises to throw open the

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floodgates of heaven and bless
us more than we can handle.

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And I think at times at least
for myself is embarrassing to

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think that in response to what
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We respond with mediocrity with
half hearted commitment and

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tight-fisted stinginess ahava is
the opposite of this is a type

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of Love which doesn’t give to
the minimum.

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It gives regardless of the
bounce so deep meaningful love,

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which is a response to
everything God has done for us.

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So what can we do to develop
this sort of love it?

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We know it’s important and we
know we struggle with showing

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this sort of love in our lives.
How can we develop and work on

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it?
How can we transform Our Lives

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go through that process of
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Well, I want to consider just
for areas for Focus areas and

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try to make them a little bit
practical for us.

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So we can go away from here if
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committed and work on developing
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absolutely critical.
If we are to please God we have

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to develop this love and it is
for our own good at the end of

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the day as well.
So these four things we’re going

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to take a look at the first one
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in the shammai in Deuteronomy 6
verse 4 loving God wholly and

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solely is directly linked to God
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And because God is one there’s
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of Israel to divide their
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They don’t need to share it
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It’s only one God in everything
every part of us.

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Can be channeled and committed
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and in cultures where there is
multitudes of god, they have to

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pick and choose on what day and
what time of the year or what

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they’re interested in they pick
and choose what God they’re

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going to serve and worship they
spread around their loyalty and

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their service.
However, because there’s only

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one true God and because he’s
provided absolutely everything

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all of our love can be and must
be directed. to him and God

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hates competition And when it
comes to giving our love our

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affections our energy to another
guy’s it demonstrates.

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We have a divided loyalty and
God hates.

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This we reading is in Exodus 34
verse 14 that God is a jealous

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God for Thou shalt worship.
No other God for the Lord whose

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name is jealous is a jealous God
and that were jealous meet

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exactly what we think it would
mean someone who cannot bear.

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the arrival and while it’s very
true today, we don’t worship

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idols.
Well images that are carved we

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stood we do still battle with
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these false gods.
They’re all around us.

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They’re vying for our Attention
our buying for a piece of us how

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piece of our hearts that
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And we need to identify and
Destroy these things which

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compete and an idol today is
anything that diverts our time

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our money our energy our
affections away from God to

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something else.
It’s something that we worship

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some of that we’re committed to
something of the world

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Colossians 3 verse 5 says don’t
be greedy for a greedy person is

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an idolater worshipping the
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And God has purchased us.
We know he’s purchased us were

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owned.
So when other interests are the

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gods lay claim to a piece of us
God objects to that.

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He’s already purchased us.
He’s already given us everything

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and we owe him our very lives
and we know our Lord’s words.

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We can’t serve two masters.
We can’t divide our loyalty.

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It’s got to be directed to one
the one and only true God.

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So who A lotta we really devoted
to who’s getting a piece of Al

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Haas.
Who do we really love?

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And the choices we make well
reflect this the things we watch

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and read how we spend our time
and money how we choose to spend

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our time.
All these things are indicators

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of what we’re really devoted to
or committed to what we’re

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really serving and we know our
Lord’s word in Matthew 6:21

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where your treasure is there.
Your heart will be also So

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here’s a quick activity the
first two you can do now the

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third one you can do for
homework, but let’s just review

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and think just for a couple of
minutes over the past week how

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we’re spending our time how much
time have we dedicated to God

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really dedicated to him in
prayer and reading and service

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in some activity.
That’s really focused on him.

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How much time?
What about our energy?

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What are we really passionate
about?

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And is it or cannot be dedicated
or directed in a way that honors

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God?
And for our money, this is a

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home where all we need to do is
go online or pull out a

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statement and see.
Where we spend our money to

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follow the money follow the
money and that will tell us

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really what we’re most
interested in.

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What do we value in this life?
What are we really value?

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Our hearts will deceive us our
bank statements won’t or our

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Diaries.
They want we need to sometimes

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take a step back and have an
objective.

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Look at really what we’re
spending our energy our time our

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resources on what really are we
devoted to?

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We cannot love God with all of
our heart our soul and our might

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and also be committed and
dedicated to the things of this

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world.
It’s really not possible and

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it’s a challenge for us.
Absolutely and the challenge is

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not loving God.
I think we all love God.

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Is loving God with all of our
being that’s the difficult part

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for anything like me We love
God, and we love a little bit of

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the world as well and what it
has to offer and we’re so quick

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to settle for a compromise when
it comes to loving and serving

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God and loving and serving
something else some other God

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some other interest.
We’re pretty good at giving some

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of our heart or even most of our
heart to God, but giving all of

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it given everything not holding
anything back that is very

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difficult.
We always like to keep something

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back something.
We are addicted to We crave.

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We like just to keep that alive,
but we should be striving to

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give all to a heavenly father
and it’s about Owen the bars

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high and we never going to
perfectly reach it.

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And I think that’s why it set so
high is so we continually strive

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and we don’t sit back and settle
thinking we’ve done enough.

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It’s there is a battle for
hearts and Minds all around us

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and it’s being aware of this and
making an effort and showing a

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willingness to engage in this
battle. and to try to destroy

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the competition so we can
completely commit and love God

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with all of our being now the
history of Israel just shows how

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Insidious how powerful how a
dangerous.

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Idols are these things that we
naturally are inclined to go

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after I mean how difficult was
it for Israel to get rid of

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idols and especially the high
places God commanded them when

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they went into the land to
destroy all the high places and

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there were forbidden to have
idols and was actually Solomon

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who introduced idol worship and
introduced the high places in

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First Kings XI and and we read
in in this event that Solomon’s

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heart was not whole It wasn’t
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David’s was he wasn’t completely
he didn’t give all he provided a

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space for these idols and man.
Were they a snare to Israel for

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Generations?
They battled with these Idols in

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these high places.
Most of the Kings failed to do

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anything about them.
Some of the Kings got rid of the

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idols that very very few
completely dealt with the

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problem and it seems That these
high places were the most

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difficult to get rid of Asa was
a good King.

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His heart was loyal to God we
read.

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He removed the idols yet be
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but the high places were not
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Jehoshaphat was another good
King.

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And he too was unable to root
out these high places the high

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places were not taken away and
it’s a recurrent theme if you

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read through the king’s the high
places the high place.

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They couldn’t get rid of them.
Once they were established.

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They were a nearly impossible to
get rid of And on personal

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reflection we need to think are
there any high places in our

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lives?
Things that prevent us from

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fully giving ourselves over to a
committed love of our heavenly

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father giving him all of us all
of our hearts their habits are

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their Pleasures are their vices
their behaviors or attitudes.

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That we find painfully difficult
to get rid of. really really

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hard Well, this my is clear
strudel me six is clearly.

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We really do need to battle and
Destroy anything that is in

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competition with God.
He wants all of us not the

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majority of us.
Not 95% of us.

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He wants us all he wants to see
us making an effort to commit

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all to him.
It’s a high high standard and

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there were a couple of kings
that did succeed in removing the

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high places Hezekiah was one of
them he cut down the Groves he

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break him.
Pieces of brazen servant that

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Moses had made and he was able
to remove the high places in

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Second Kings 18 verse 4 and
what’s interesting about

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Hezekiah didn’t just get rid of
the high places.

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He also restored true worship in
the temple.

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So he didn’t just leave a void.
He replaced it with god-centered

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activity.
He didn’t just depart from Evil.

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He pursued that which was good
as we read in the Psalms depart

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from Evil and do good.
Good and there’s a really

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powerful lesson.
Of course, we know it is

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replacing things.
It’s replacing our Idols is

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displacing things.
It’s replacing Idols those

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things which take her heart away
from God with something good and

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wholesome that will take us
closer to God Josiah was another

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king who managed to get rid of
the high places completely

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destroying the competition and
goes into great detail in second

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of Kings 23 how he About doing
this everything that he did to

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root out these idolatrous
practices and what I find

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striking was he was absolutely
brutal in his demolition of the

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competition.
He slew all the priests on the

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high places and burnt their
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And I think his response kind of
reminds us of our Lord’s words

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when he’s talking about the same
subject and he says he we need

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to cut out.
We need to pluck off those

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things which cause us to sin or
Paul when he uses the was

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crucified and mortify when he’s
describing what we need to do

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with the flesh with these things
that are opposed to God

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destroying the competition
cutting off those fleshly.

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Lots of us at last after these
things won’t happen without a

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conscious effort to make it
happen.

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And here’s some actions we can
take we need to identify what

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the competition is for us.
It’s going to be different for

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every one of us.
What is really taking our heart

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away from God.
What is it?

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What is the competition and we
need to destroy any of that

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takes means taking extreme.
Ins and we need to do something.

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We need to stand strong against
Temptation and we won’t always

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succeed.
But if we’re battling that is

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what counts And we can replace
we can replace these things.

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We love to do which have fleshed
Lee and sinful with something

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healthy find something.
We’re passionate about and make

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that the focus where we put our
energy and time into it’s not

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complex or difficult, but it
does take discipline and it

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won’t be easy.
The second thing that we can

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focus on when it comes to
developing this sort of love

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that we worry about in
Deuteronomy 6 verse 4 is we need

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to develop a committed
relationship with God and this

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is not brain science a rocket
scientist.

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It’s nothing new that you’re
hearing.

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We’ve heard this a lot but is
again it’s not something natural

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and we need to be reminded of
how important this is having an

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actual relationship with God is
absolutely essential. if we are

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ever to develop this a hover
love this emotional love it goes

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without saying we need to spend
more time with him.

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That’s how a relationship
develops and grows its through

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investing time in understanding
and knowing god and we will draw

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closer to him.
He will see him working in our

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lives and this will draw us even
closer.

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We’ll get to know him more
intimately and then an emotional

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connection will be established
and that will provide an Avenue

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and opportunity for a hover.
Love to develop in our lives.

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Later, persistently pursue him
be fully committed to him and we

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do this, of course by reading
the Bible learning and

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understanding getting to know
him thinking meditating on on

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what we’re reading.
Try to really understand his

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character this concept of listen
with intent to get to know God.

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It’s one thing to read.
It’s another thing to to listen

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with intent to understand.
And of course prayer is

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absolutely essential it is
simple things but we get so busy

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in life that we find it hard to
spend time doing the things that

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are most important.
I mean we can’t so busy in life

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that the most important
relationship of all is harmed.

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We don’t have time for it and it
really does come back to

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prioritization As a matter of
priorities.

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It’s so easy for us to go after
those things which the flesh

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appeals to all that easy that
Pleasant rather than pursuing

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things that are deep and
meaningful and important.

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There are many gods after our
Attention our love and it’s easy

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to give in and serve these
things serve what our flesh

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really wants what we’re really
naturally attracted to.

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So having a little exercise for
you to do and if you have a pen

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and paper grab it out and let’s
just do a quick assessment of

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how we have prioritized our time
in this past week.

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Just guesstimate.
How much time this past week you

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are sleeping and this will be
shocking for some of us.

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How much time you’re eating just
quickly guesstimate how much

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time you’re at work how much
time you’re playing things that

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00:33:58,300 –> 00:34:01,300
are not particularly spiritually
healthy how much time was

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committed to movies Internet TV
reading books?

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What about exercise and fitness
how much time shopping prayer

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Bible reading Bible study
listening to Bible talks family

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and friends including time with
our brothers and sisters and

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caring for people in need.
I’ll give you a few minutes

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because I think it’s good for us
to go through this exercise.

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If you don’t do it now, let’s
face it.

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We won’t have time to do it
after this talk.

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So let’s spend two minutes right
now estimating guesstimating.

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How we spend our time just this
last week?

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Okay, that’s enough time.
We don’t have time to spend any

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more time on this but we all
know the story of putting the

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big things first into the jar.
Right?

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It’s if we don’t do that if we
don’t put the big things in

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first, they won’t end up in the
jar and we know this the problem

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is we don’t do it.
We leave the most important

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things to last.
And when we don’t have time

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where either skip them always
through rush through them and

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this includes Bible reading and
prayer.

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These are important things these
things which develop our

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relationship with God we often
leave out and leave to the end

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and we rush through but we
really need to put first things

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first and it’s a good reminder
of this we know it, but we need

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perhaps to think about a little
bit more and apply a bit more

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into our lives if we want to
build a relationship with God

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and develop the love we read
about intruder.

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We 6 verse 4 we cannot love
someone that we don’t know.

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We have a close relationship
with someone.

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We don’t understand.
So we really do need to spend

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time and be serious about our
reading and thinking meditation

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and our prayer and if it means
getting out of bed an hour

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00:35:49,100 –> 00:35:53,500
early, then maybe that’s what we
need to do or shutting the door

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at lunchtime and and just
spending time with God.

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It may even mean fewer social
activities.

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So we have more time to focus on
this most important relationship

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of all.
We need to take control of our

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time and also be smarter how we
use it.

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I know many of you have the
Bible app on your phone is

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fantastic.
I commute to work is 15 20

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minutes half an hour in the car
every day and you just plug it

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00:36:23,600 –> 00:36:27,200
in and listen to the Bible pick
a an easy to listen to

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00:36:27,200 –> 00:36:29,400
translation.
The New Living Translation is

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great and just listen to the
Bible as you’re driving make

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smart use of your time.
Another thing I do in this one

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who killed everyone but when I
exercise I used to love

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00:36:41,000 –> 00:36:45,600
listening to audiobooks and
recently I discovered Used to be

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00:36:45,600 –> 00:36:49,200
called Livonia tapes, but it’s
now called christadelphians

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00:36:49,200 –> 00:36:53,400
Bible talks.com.
There are thousands of Christian

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00:36:53,400 –> 00:36:56,100
Bible talks on here download
them and listen to them some

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00:36:56,100 –> 00:37:00,600
great Bible studies Bible
schools and when I’m running I

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listen to these things now, It’s
helpful.

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It’s helpful just to have the
Bible and godly thoughts flowing

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through your mind.
Even if you can’t make note of

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every Point that’s being made at
still useful.

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We can do it while we’re doing
housework while walking or

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00:37:17,100 –> 00:37:21,600
biking whatever it’s making
smart use of those fourteen

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hundred and forty minutes.
We all have every day.

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And it’s certainly true the more
we let God’s word and his

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thinking his thoughts flow
through our minds more in tune

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will be with him the more we’ll
get to love and know him.

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And of course prayer is another
key element of developing this

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love and it’s something a lot of
people struggle with I remember

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being at a bible school where
they did a survey of everyone

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and everyone.
It seems a struggling and a lot

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of people in the week before had
not prayed at all.

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So it’s something we perhaps
don’t spend enough attention on

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prayer and something we can all
do better at And of course, it

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is absolutely important if we
want to have a relationship with

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God we communicate with him and
I really find it useful to have

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an ongoing conversation and
people may think that’s

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extremely weird.
But we have formal prayers that

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were used to but why can’t we
just communicate throughout the

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day with god with our lord
Jesus?

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Why can’t we bounce ideas off of
him seek his input and advice on

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everything doesn’t have to be
your formal time of prayer.

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We can have this spontaneous
talk this ongoing conversation

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and I find that more effective
than formal prayer.

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However, it’s also important I
believe to set aside time for

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formal prayer personal prayer
and to really think through what

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we are going to say.
I don’t know if you’re anything

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like me perhaps I’m got some
attention deficit disorder as

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00:38:54,200 –> 00:38:56,600
well.
But you start a prayer and

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before you know, it your mind is
off and you’re thinking about

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something completely different
you pull it back.

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A few more minutes and then
you’re gone again.

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I really struggle with this
keeping focused and if you like

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me one thing that does help is
actually writing out your prayer

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sit behind a computer or get a
pen out and just write it down.

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It’s extremely powerful and
extremely useful thing to do not

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all the time.
But every now and again give it

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a shot.
It really helps you structure.

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Your thoughts.
Another group practice is

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putting down prayer Points each
week to pray for And then coming

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00:39:32,400 –> 00:39:35,900
back and reviewing them to see
how God has worked to answer

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those prayers.
So some actions here download

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the app.
If you don’t have a listen to

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The Bible and talks read think
pray more pray with purpose and

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00:39:47,400 –> 00:39:51,400
intent and feeling if we can
write out a prayer write out a

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weekly prayer list and
communicate often and openly

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with God.
So the third thing which will

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help us develop this a hover
love for God is too.

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To celebrate Every Day gifts and
this is so powerful is the

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concept of appreciation and it’s
really an important part of

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developing this love when you
think about everything God has

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done for us.
It is a reasonable expectation

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that we will genuinely respond
with genuine love.

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And first John 4 verse 19 really
sums it up nicely in one simple

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short sentence.
We love because he first loved

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us.
And now love our Harbour is a

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response.
It’s a response to God’s

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abundant overflowing love and
blessings for us.

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And if we more deeply appreciate
this, then this love in return

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will become much easier and much
more natural and it will just

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develop God’s given us so much
really when we think about it so

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much far beyond we can ever
experience.

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He’s blessed us.
He’s given us life and giving it

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to us more abundantly through
giving us his son.

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He gives generously reading
James without finding fault.

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His good.
God is good.

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His love is everywhere.
However, we still need to spend

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time to acknowledge it and
identify and appreciate it.

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And Moses when he was speaking
to the Israelites made a

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constant point about remembering
remembering what God has done

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recalling the blessings that God
has given them a not forgetting

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dirt on me 8 Deuteronomy 8 verse
2 8 verse 89 verse to remember

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and don’t forget remember and
never forget.

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Remember the Lord your God and
if we do this it’s a

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life-changing practice to really
identify a recall and

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00:41:50,200 –> 00:41:53,500
acknowledge the blessings.
Which God gives us every day of

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00:41:53,500 –> 00:41:57,200
Our Lives to see his hand at
work in our in our lives

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00:41:57,200 –> 00:41:59,600
answering our prayers and the
more we acknowledge and

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appreciate these little gifts
and blessings the more we will

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love him with that true deep
emotional love.

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Some of you may read this book
maybe not it’s called 1,000

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gifts and the author and Vos
Camp was went through a very

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troubled childhood.
She was with her mother when she

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watched helplessly as a little
sister was run over by a truck

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and crushed in her driveway and
her mother consequently checked

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into a psychiatric hospital and
she really lost her mother as

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well and then later on in life.
She faced the tragedy of her two

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00:42:42,300 –> 00:42:47,000
nephews being killed and she
writes this book and its really

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a description of the process.
She went through to kind of come

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out of this Brokenness and
reconnect with God and it was

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all hinged it all hinged on a
simple activity of journaling

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her blessings every day.
And in the description of the

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book, it says this it says in
1000 gifts and invites you to

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embrace.
Race everyday blessings and

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00:43:11,600 –> 00:43:14,500
embark on a transformative
spiritual discipline of

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chronicling God’s gifts is only
in this expressing of gratitude

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for the life.
We already have we discover the

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life.
We’re always wanted a life.

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We can take give thanks for and
break for others.

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We come to feel and know the
impossible right down in our

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bones.
We are wildly loved by God.

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Let ends beautiful heart aching
stories of each of the everyday

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give you a way of seeing that
opens your eyes to the ordinary

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00:43:46,800 –> 00:43:50,700
Amazing Grace a way of being
present to God that makes you

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deeply happy and a way of living
that is finally Fully Alive.

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So this pork is based on this
simple practice of counting your

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a daily blessings the little
gifts of everyday life

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journaling these blessings
identifying them writing them

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down and for her this process
transformed her life and her

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relationship with her with her
God in heaven.

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We can all do this.
We can all start by simply

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writing down things we’re
thankful for And we don’t have

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time of course to do this, but
do it make a list of the little

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gifts the daily blessings the
daily Gifts of life, and I’ve

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tried to do this on a Monday
morning when I come to work and

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open my diary and plan out the
week.

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I now have a section on gifts to
be thankful for and I try to

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come back to that throughout the
week and just identify small

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things.
Could be a beautiful sunset you

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saw in the morning or a message
that you received from someone

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you care about Every Day gifts
and it can be transformative in

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the book daring to Hope which I
know some of you are red Katie

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Davis describes putting these
Post-it notes all over her

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kitchen wall each one a blessing
a gift that she’s thankful for.

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And in her trying circumstances
dealing with pain and grief and

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loss and Injustice and death and
suffering on a daily basis.

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She had this surrounding her
these gifts of everyday life.

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It’s a powerful thing that we
can all do.

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It can be transformative if we
spend the time to do it and

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someone in seven was a sound we
had read for us this morning and

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it really is this overflowing
thankfulness and gratitude that

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the psalmist has pointing to the
provincial care of God in the

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life of the children of Israel
and some 107 verse 8 to 9 there.

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Oh that men might praise the
Lord for his goodness for all

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his wonderful Works to the
Children of Men.

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He satisfies the longing soul
and fill out the hungry soul

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with goodness.
And it’s easy for us to think of

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00:46:14,300 –> 00:46:18,700
God is distant and impersonal
but he’s not he is active in at

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00:46:18,700 –> 00:46:20,400
work in our lives.
We know it.

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We have Angels which are sent to
serve those who will inherit

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salvation.
There are angels working in our

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lives engaged in our lives.
We pray we expect a response

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from prayer.
We know that and look back and

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00:46:35,100 –> 00:46:39,900
see God at work.
It really helps us to appreciate

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00:46:39,900 –> 00:46:42,900
God and to love him with this
deep emotional love.

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With so much to be thankful for
and we can easily just rush

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through life without stopping
for a moment to appreciate God’s

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00:46:54,600 –> 00:46:58,300
everyday gifts and acknowledge
his providential care in our

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lives.
I don’t have time to read

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through this section.
But as I was reading listening

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to the Bible and the way to
work, I was listening to Ezekiel

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00:47:08,400 –> 00:47:12,500
chapter 16, and it just
absolutely struck me.

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00:47:12,500 –> 00:47:15,000
It was probably because it was
written it was being read out of

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00:47:15,000 –> 00:47:18,800
the New Living Translation,
which is quite easy to read but

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00:47:18,900 –> 00:47:22,900
I’d read this chapter over and
over but on this particular

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morning, I just hit me like a
ton of bricks and I had to re

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listen to it and I encourage you
to do likewise it is so The

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00:47:31,500 –> 00:47:37,000
picture is so vivid is talking
about a baby with this umbilical

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00:47:37,000 –> 00:47:40,400
cord not being cut been thrown
by the side of the road like

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laying in his blood left to die.
No one caring and God coming

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00:47:45,500 –> 00:47:50,300
along and picking up this
helpless baby and completely

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00:47:50,300 –> 00:47:55,000
providing everything for this
baby making it grow and Thrive

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00:47:55,000 –> 00:47:58,900
and providing it with fine linen
and silk and embroidered

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00:47:59,400 –> 00:48:03,000
clothing.
And when this baby gets older

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00:48:03,800 –> 00:48:06,800
she turns around and takes all
these beautiful things God’s

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given and makes Idols with it
and worship the idols and

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00:48:10,800 –> 00:48:14,900
ignores God and prostitutes
herself for the other nations

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00:48:15,400 –> 00:48:21,200
and he kept his sense of God’s
feeling and emotion in how that

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makes him feel when we don’t
respond in appreciation and

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gratitude for everything.
God has done for us.

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It’s a really powerful and
moving.

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Moving section of scripture zq
chapter 16 and you can just feel

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God absolute bewilderment and
dismay at how the children of

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Israel his special chose and
people had responded to his love

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00:48:46,200 –> 00:48:50,400
and care and he’s absolutely
heartbroken and infuriated and

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00:48:50,400 –> 00:48:56,400
shamed by how they responded.
So God does care how we respond.

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00:48:56,400 –> 00:49:00,300
He wants us to show this
appreciation and love.

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So simple actions for this one
right down your daily gifts and

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list your prayers and review
them.

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So we’re out of time.
But the fourth one I was going

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to look at is is loving others
and this is going to be a

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natural response.
Once we develop this love for

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God.
It will naturally flow out to

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how we interact with people
around us ahava is both a

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00:49:21,900 –> 00:49:27,100
feeling and an action and it’s
got to be practical and

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00:49:27,100 –> 00:49:32,300
Deuteronomy 10 for a 16 to 19
years is a Fantastic verse it

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00:49:32,300 –> 00:49:36,500
starts off circumcised therefore
the foreskin of your heart and

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00:49:36,500 –> 00:49:40,100
be no more stiff-necked says for
the Lord.

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Your God is a god of gods the
Lord of lords our great God

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00:49:43,200 –> 00:49:45,900
Mighty and terrible regardeth
not persons not take you through

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ward.
He executed judgment for the

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fatherless and the Widow.
He loveth The Stranger and

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giving food and raiment
therefore love.

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Ye The Stranger For You Were
Strangers in the land of Egypt

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00:49:58,700 –> 00:50:01,000
Thou shalt fear the lord.
Thy God Thou shalt serve.

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Him and now shall cleave unto
him and swear by his name.

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So again, it’s this idea of
reciprocating God’s love in our

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everyday lives and loving like
he loves and in this example is

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loving the needy the vulnerable
the stranger the migrant the

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00:50:18,400 –> 00:50:22,600
poor that’s who God loves and he
calls us to love in the same

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way.
And of course this is picked up

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in Luke chapter 10 when the
lawyers talking about what’s the

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greatest commandment and and
Jesus Is on to talk about the

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00:50:32,800 –> 00:50:36,600
parable of the Good Samaritan
and says go and do likewise.

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00:50:37,000 –> 00:50:39,900
So a legalistic love looks to
kind of Define.

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00:50:39,900 –> 00:50:43,000
Well, who is my neighbor?
So as to limit one’s

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00:50:43,000 –> 00:50:47,300
obligations, but however or
agape love is it’s picked up in

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00:50:47,300 –> 00:50:51,700
the New Testament is based on
need and it’s not restricted by

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bounds. and finally It’s not all
about what we do in Deuteronomy

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10.
It says circumcise your hearts

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00:51:03,400 –> 00:51:07,300
in Deuteronomy 30.
It says the Lord will circumcise

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00:51:07,300 –> 00:51:10,900
your heart.
So it’s not all about us.

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Yes.
We need to initiate the process.

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00:51:13,900 –> 00:51:16,600
We need to show the commitment.
We did develop the relationship.

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00:51:16,600 –> 00:51:20,800
We need to destroy those things
which compete by cutting off the

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00:51:20,800 –> 00:51:24,800
fleshly parts of our heart.
We need to make an effort, but

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00:51:24,800 –> 00:51:29,200
we cannot do it alone.
God will come in and work with

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00:51:29,200 –> 00:51:34,000
us to fulfill and to complete
this process of transformation.

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00:51:35,000 –> 00:51:37,700
And we just start the process
God works with us.

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00:51:37,700 –> 00:51:41,500
It’s a joint effort is God who
is working in us?

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00:51:41,500 –> 00:51:45,400
It’s God who is working in us to
fulfill his good pleasure

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00:51:45,400 –> 00:51:50,100
reading in Philippians 2 and we
are his workmanship if we allow

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00:51:50,100 –> 00:51:55,900
him in a few in Ephesians 2
verse 10 So the more we willing

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00:51:55,900 –> 00:51:59,800
to take those first steps, the
more God will be able to step in

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00:51:59,800 –> 00:52:02,900
and work with us to complete
that journey of transformation.

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00:52:03,600 –> 00:52:08,300
And finally when Jesus returns,
we will be completely

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00:52:08,300 –> 00:52:12,400
transformed will finish that
process when this corruptible

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00:52:12,400 –> 00:52:15,500
this week this nature we
struggle with or can be

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00:52:15,500 –> 00:52:19,900
completely changed the crop will
put on incorruption and the

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00:52:19,900 –> 00:52:24,300
Mortal will pick it up put on
immortality and We can say

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00:52:24,300 –> 00:52:27,500
thanks be to God who gives us
the victory through our Lord

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00:52:27,500 –> 00:52:38,100
Jesus Christ.
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