121: Dave Jennings – Exhortation: Katartizo

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we’re listening to an excitation
that was given by brother Dave

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Jennings a few weeks ago at
their Verdugo Hills, Ecclesia.

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And the subject of his
excitation is coming from Hebrew

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13, as well as the passage in
Mark chapter 1 verses 16 through

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Money specifically where Jesus
is talking to his disciples and

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they are in the process of
amending their Nets.

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And the the main point of
brother, Dave’s excitation is

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focusing on that word.
Mending, the Greek word there is

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cat Ortiz, 0 and the idea behind
it is to completely or

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thoroughly repair and almost to
put back together perfectly and

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the basic idea of it is the
mental ending in the building up

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of ourselves in our life now as
it leads to our life.

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When the kingdom comes, And the
preparation that God puts each

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of us through.
And in preparing us for those

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things gives us the opportunity
to do more.

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And one of the points that
brother they’ve made that I

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really enjoyed in this is that
sometimes you may not feel

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prepared for something that God
has put before you.

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But there are times when it
will, when he has put things in

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our lives to prepare us, even
though we don’t realize that he

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gave the example of David who
Dave First face down a lion and

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a bear before you face Goliath.
Now, if you would, ask David

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before he went to fight Goliath
and he was honest, even though

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he had faith that God would be
with him, it’s quite a jump to

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go from a wild animal to a man
of war and in the same way, God

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is preparing us for things and
sometimes it may seem beyond

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what we can do.
But if it’s something that we

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can do, we step forward, we do
it.

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And God will be with us, and we
can accomplish great things and

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God prepares.
As things in many ways to make

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sure that we’re ready for when
those things happen.

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Brother, Dave has several other
examples looking at that word

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cat Ortiz, 0, which I found to
be a really encouraging one and

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it was one that I enjoyed
hearing this excitation the

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reminder that you don’t always
have to feel perfectly prepared

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for everything that if you’re
sitting around waiting to feel

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like everything is exactly the
way that you want it to be,

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you’re never going to step
forward.

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You will be like that Unfaithful
servant that took his one talent

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and Barry.
Rather than working with it, and

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it was a good reminder,
especially right.

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Now, when you can feel sometimes
like, you don’t know what to do,

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or where to go.
But instead, now, you can use

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that this as a motivation to if
there’s an opportunity that

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comes up to do something you
step forward, and you do it and

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do it to the best of your
ability.

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It’s also a good reminder for
everybody that if somebody does

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step forward to try to encourage
that willingness to serve, even

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if it’s not done perfectly or
the done the way that you might

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think that it should be done the
willingness of somebody else

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too.
Step forward and serve in,

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whatever, capacity, they’re able
and willing to is amazing and

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tremendous and something that
should be encouraged, not

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discouraged.
That’s how we figure out new and

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better ways to do things.
So really enjoy this excitation

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by brother.
Dave is a good reminder about

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that, we’re all in need of
mending and God is working in

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our lives.
To help us to become more

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perfect as we wait for the
return of his son to make us

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truly perfect.
In that Kingdom.

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And with that we will turn this
over to our brother.

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Dave Jennings for his excitation
on the word cat Ortiz.

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Oh very pleased to be able to
come to you today especially to

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be able to share Some thoughts
from our readings are readings

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are exceptional today.
I think you would all agree the

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readings and Micah were some of
the better visions that we have

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the peacefulness and the beauty
of the Kingdom.

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I’m going to be really basing my
comments out of one particular

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verse that we see in Hebrews and
I’m hoping that this will be

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something that will be helpful
to all of us.

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We’re actually going to start
though this morning.

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By the seaside in Capernaum.
And I’d like to ask you to turn

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to Mark chapter 1 as we get
started. so, Mark, chapter 1,

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you know, the gospels require us
to Piece things together.

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It requires us to look at the
four different accounts and

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often times between this, some
not synoptic gospels and John

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were able to put together a
better picture, and we don’t

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have time to do all of that in
this particular story.

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But I’d like to suggest to you,
that what we’re about to read

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here, in Mark chapter 1, has
actually followed the time when

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Jesus Was to Peter and Andrew
and John and James and he says,

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have you caught any fish and
they haven’t caught any fish.

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And he tells them and Luke
Chapter 5, to cast the net on to

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the other side of the ship and
reluctantly.

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They do this.
And if you remember what ends up

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happening, is their Nets broke.
Now, I’d like you to keep that

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in mind because I think this is
the same period of time when we

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read here.
Beginning at verse 16.

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Says in verse 16.
Now as he walked by the Sea of

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Galilee, he saw, Simon, and
Andrew his brother.

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Casting into a sea, casting a
net into the sea for they were

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Fishers and I’d suggest this is
the, the period of time where we

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here in the Luke Chapter 5,
about how they should be casting

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on the other side verse 17.
And Jesus said unto them, Come

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Ye after me, and I will make you
to become Fishers of Men.

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Men and straight away.
They forsook their Nets and

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followed him.
And when he had gone a little

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farther thence, he saw James,
the son of Zebedee and John his

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brother who also were in the
ship mending, their Nets and

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straightway, he called them, and
they left their father Zebedee

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and the ship with the hired
servants and went after him.

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So this is a familiar passage to
all of us.

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And I think the Jesus is just
had this first, maybe not first

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but certainly pivotal
interaction with the disciples

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Peter and Andrew and their
Associates.

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It’s recorded for us in Luke 5.
They’ve been fishing all night

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without success.
Now, you wonder how that

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happens.
These are fishermen that were

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highly skilled.
If there’s anything, they knew

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it was that Lake where to cast
the net and we’re not to cast

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the net.
And they would have known the

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conditions of a lake intimately.
And I sort of Doubt, there were

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too many times where they went
out and they didn’t catch

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anything.
Because these were men who would

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have known where the fish were
and not like today, where we use

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sonar, we go out on these boats.
The sonar says, oh, right here,

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there’s some fish down below,
they didn’t have that.

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So what they used was their own
experience and their own

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Ingenuity and if there were fish
to be caught, it was by their

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skill and Ingenuity and
experience that these fishermen

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would have found the fish.
But we see in the Luke account

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that they had labored all night
and caught nothing.

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And so we see that when Jesus
tells them to cast on the other

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side of the boat Peter
begrudgingly does this and we

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know the rest of the story about
how they catch.

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So many fish.
That it says their Nets,

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literally burst are broke
because of the abundance of the

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fish but what I’d like to focus
on here is when we get back.

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To the shore.
We see here in Mark chapter 1

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after what probably is.
This Great Hall of fish where

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their Nets broke?
What do we see what?

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We see James and John and
they’re sitting by the seashore

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and what they’re doing they’re
still on their boats, are they

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haven’t come into their house
yet.

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What they’re doing is they’re
working on repairing their Nets

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and the word that’s used here is
the word mending.

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Now that’s going to actually be
a fascinating word for us.

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Let’s just talk about the net.
First of all, first of all, for

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these fishermen a good net, this
is the tool of the trade.

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This is the hammer and the end
of the carpenter.

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The net might be as large as 100
or more feet long and more than

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20 feet wide, it was the tool of
their trade and it could be

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dropped down just at the right.
Place and at the right time and

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they would be able to pull in
and enclose these fish and a

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good, net would allow them to be
pulled up safely.

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See that the net would be
useless in the hands of people

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who didn’t know the link and
didn’t know where to cast it.

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But also a damaged net that was
torn.

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Was also of no value.
It could never enfold the fish.

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And they would Escape out of the
place where the tear was having

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a net that was fully prepared
for the work was critical and

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James.
And John, they knew that their

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first priority before they even
went into the house, to be able

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to enjoy dinner, or whatever it
might have been.

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They knew that they had to take
care of their net.

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They had to mend it.
Now, that’s important because

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they would have taken out all
the places where was torn the

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useless debris that had kind of
clogged the filtration of the

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net and gently, you can see
these tough fishermen mending

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gently, this net.
Now, look as christadelphians,

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we know, the value of the
original Hebrew, or the original

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Greek.
We’re familiar with these words

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because they in our doctrines
allow us to open up the meaning

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of certain passages words like
nefesh are nephesh or satanís,

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or gehenna or Agape.
These are all words that.

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We’re familiar with and they’re
words that they open up a deeper

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meaning for us, a more accurate
understanding of the intended

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Doctrine.
So I’d like to introduce you to

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another word.
If you’re not familiar with it

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and that’s the word that we see
here for mending their Nets.

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That word for mending.
Their Nets is a Greek word cat

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Ortiz.
Oh, Now you’re going to really

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like this word cat Ortiz,
though, as we follow it through,

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it’s a word that you’re going to
want to remember because the

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word for The Mending of the net
or counter T’s 0 is translated

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in a whole bunch of different
ways in the New Testament.

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It carries the idea of mending
or repairing or putting things

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right back into position or
enabling something to be used a

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week before I 40 years old.
I had a double spiral fracture

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of my leg and the doctor.
I will never forget.

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This of course put my leg back
into the right position.

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The foot was going the wrong
direction and he took the foot,

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pulled it down and pushed it
back into the right place.

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And while that pain was
unbelievable for a moment, when

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it got back into the right
place, 95% of the pain went

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away.
I felt like kissing the doctor

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He was, it was, it was such a
great thing but it’s the idea of

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putting things into the right
place, mending them so that they

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can be used.
That’s the idea of the word cat

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Ortiz, 0.
So what were James and John

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doing carefully?
Cat Ortiz, owing, mending, their

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Nets because they knew that our
met a net.

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That wasn’t repaired would be
useless.

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If they went out the next day
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repaired wasn’t mended, well, it
would be useless.

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It couldn’t do the intended
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All right, so let’s, let’s leave
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and let’s go to a word that we
just got through Reading and

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Hebrews chapter 13, where we see
the word cat Ortiz 0 used.

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N.
So in Hebrews chapter 13, we

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read this in verse 20.
Now the God of Peace that

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brought again from the dead.
Our lord Jesus that great

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Shepherd of the sheep through
the blood of ever loved the

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Everlasting Covenant.
Make you quatre T’s oh perfect.

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In every good work to do his
will Working in you that which

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is well pleasing in his sight
through Jesus Christ to whom be

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glory forever and ever.
Amen.

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So the phrase here translated
make you perfect is cat Ortiz.

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Oh, Now, a lot of other versions
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I like that.
Actually, it carries the same

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general.
Meaning it means to make you

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useful for a particular purpose.
Now in the met in the Nets back

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in Capernaum, it was restoring
that net.

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And what we see here is that the
we have been made perfect we

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have been equipped For good
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And it really makes you pause
for a moment to realize that

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just as the fishermen labored to
repair and to restore the

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fishing net, for your work, in
the future, the next day.

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So, our Lord does the same for
us.

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He’s patiently, mending us.
And without his work in our

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lives, we would be nothing other
than torn fishing nets in

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capable of doing work that we
are intended for in his hands.

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We become Fishers of Men.
You see our work in the truth is

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not accomplished by our own
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Our own capabilities.
Sometimes I think that’s where

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we initially initially.
Think we think well, because

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this person is good at this.
That means that’s what they’re

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going to be doing in the work of
the Lord.

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But it’s not that way.
It’s not through our own

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capabilities and ingenuity.
When we estimate, what is

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possible in circumstances.
What’s possible through our

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capabilities, we’re not doing
this through the eye of Faith.

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We’re neglecting a critical
principle about our lives in the

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truth.
And that is With God, all things

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are possible as the angel said.
So if you’ve labeled yourself as

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somebody who cannot do
something, As somebody you all

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no one said you’re right.
You can’t you can’t do it and

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you probably won’t but when we
limit God and what God does to

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prepare us for good works, then
we do so at our own loss.

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There’s nothing more,
satisfying, I don’t believe in

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life, then whenever the work,
the Lord Works through Us in

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ways that we didn’t ever believe
we’re possible.

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And there’s countless examples
of how that happens in

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scripture, you know, we know
about David facing down Goliath.

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Well, let’s think about that
before he faced down Goliath, he

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had to face the lion and the
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And with that evidence, he had
the faith to be able to face the

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Giant in the valley of elah.
Moses thought he was ready to be

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able to deliver the people of
Israel from Egypt, but really it

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wasn’t until he was out in
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In relative isolation, tending
sheep and Midian that he finally

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was prepared to go back as a
humble leader, and to lead the

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people of Israel out of Egypt.
Or Jeremiah, who thought he

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couldn’t speak the word of God
because he was yet a young

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person.
He had to be told that he was

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not to fear those that would be
in front of him but that God was

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with him.
So have you thought these kind

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of thoughts?
Have you thought?

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Well, I’m too old.
Maybe you thought I’m too young?

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I’m not a scholar, I’m not
outgoing, I’m not and the list

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can go on and on and on, here’s
the message.

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The message is, God knows our
capabilities.

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Maybe not our capability today,
but he knows what you are, and

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what you are capable through
him, and he knows what service

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he is going to require of you.
You.

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He knows your limitations better
than you do and he knows what he

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can use and when he will need to
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So before the act of service is
put before you to do, Our God

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has been using cat Ortiz 0 to
prepare you to mend, you to

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equip you to be successful in
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He knows the need.
He knows the action that’s going

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to be required.
He knows you, and he knows how

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to prepare you, all we have to
do is put our trust, our trust,

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and our faith in him.
Now, surely we have to plan and

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we need to work and we need to
have sweat in what we do.

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But you see anxiety and
self-doubt, they don’t belong in

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our hearts.
On our own.

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We’re like the fishermen in
Capernaum who work all night

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thinking we can do it ourselves.
Only to find out that we catch

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nothing.
Lots of hard work doing all the

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right things but coming up,
empty. but, When we follow the

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the master, when he prepares us
for work that he puts in front

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of us, he makes his capable in
ways that are sometimes

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counterintuitive but beyond our
wildest imagination, our Nets

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can actually break because it’s
greater than we ever thought

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could happen.
But I’d like to add another

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familiar verse to this over in
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You’ll turn with me over to
Ephesians chapter 2. we don’t

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see the word cat or cheese do
here, but we see the concept is

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talking about the changes that
happen in the life of a person

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who has Become a son or a
daughter of our living of the

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Living.
God, who hath been raised up and

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made to sit together in Heavenly
places in Christ Jesus and this

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is what he says in verse 10.
Well let’s go back to verse 8

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for by grace are ye saved
through faith.

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And that not of yourselves.
It is the gift of God, not of

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Works, lest any man should boast
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That’s an interesting word.
Another version says we’re his

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work of art.
We are his workmanship created

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in Christ Jesus unto good works
which God hath before ordained

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that we should walk in them.
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Just for emphasis for we are
God’s workmanship created in

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Christ.
Jesus to do good works which God

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prepared in advance.
For us to do.

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Well.
This.

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This is a verse, I remember,
when I first really paid

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attention to it, stopped me in
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And if you haven’t really
thought about this verse, maybe

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it’ll do the same for you too.
It makes us think about our

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lives quite differently.
Our lives are about doing good

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work.
That our God has planned for us

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to do in advance now, sometimes
people worry about, you know,

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what should be my Ministry?
Should I go to a foreign land

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and work as a mission work?
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If you decide to do that, what
service should I do in the

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truth?
We’re shy.

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Invest my time.
Do I have the skill to do this,

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or to do that?
What am I capable of?

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Can I do this particular service
and often times that assessment

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of our own capabilities leads us
into directions?

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Where maybe it’s not really the
right way to be thinking if we

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accept that the Lord is working
in our lives, to prepare us for

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work that lies ahead.
And we truly believe that he’s

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preparing us for that work.
Then here’s what it requires.

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It requires for us to do nothing
more than be responsive to the

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work that he puts in front of
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Just do what’s in front of you.
It reminds me of the woman who

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anointed the feet as scuse me
actually see a none of the head

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of the Lord.
Jesus Christ with the alabaster

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box of ointment.
Now she knew that she was doing

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it for his burial.
She she couldn’t stop the events

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that led to his crucifixion.
She wouldn’t be there at the

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crucifixion.
She was powerless to do anything

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about that, but what she did And
what Jesus said would be done as

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a memorial for her.
Is she did what she could?

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And brothers and sisters.
That’s the standard that we

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should all aspire to do what you
can do, everything I can with

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the opportunities that the Lord
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You see, it makes us think
differently about the challenges

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experiences and even the
difficult things that happen in

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our lives, About with a dreadful
physical ailment.

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Can be something that can
actually help us if we exercise

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our minds, thereby to build our
faith and very likely, it might

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help us to help others who are
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In my own knowledge or remember
when my mom was going through

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her final couple of years with
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You know, I would have done
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But where she found some of the
most encouraging messages were

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from people like sister Jan
here, who had also herself gone

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through a bout of cancer and it
was her encouragement talking to

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my mom.
That really, really helped her

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during that time.
So sometimes we go through,

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unexpected situations, some
enjoyable and some not so

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enjoyable and we should know
that in the broader context of

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our life.
The Lord is preparing us for

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good works where his workmanship
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And because of the foreknowledge
of God, he knows how we can take

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learning and wisdom from these
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A later time.
I’m always amazed about the work

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of the Angels, especially how
they’re rarely working on events

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that are happening right at that
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They’re working about events
that need to happen in the

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future.
When we read in the Book of

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Daniel about Gabriel having to
bring my Michael, the Archangel

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to help him, he’s working on
being able to get the King of

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Persia.
Do something and we just read

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this last week about Jonah
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I’ve read over this so many
times when Jonas thrown over the

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ship by the the men in the boat.
It says that the Lord had

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prepared, a great fish to
swallow up, Jonah and I just

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read right over the top of that.
But think about that what did

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that preparation involved?
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Jonah.
Who was supposed to go to

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Nineveh, right?
It was about knowing that he

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would be on that ship at that
place and knowing that he would

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be thrown overboard.
All of that was known in advance

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and the preparation of having it
at a fish that was just the

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right kind of fish prepared and
at the right place at the right

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time, that’s how the Angels
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That is how God prepares things
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So think about that.
In the foreknowledge of God, he

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knows when you are just the
right person to do given work,

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he knows the faith that you’re
going to need and the

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preparation advance for that
work.

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This is how we fit into the
master plan.

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When we do the work that he has
planned in advance for us to do.

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That’s why we’re told James says
this in Acts chapter 15, known

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unto God are all his works.
From the beginning of the world,

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everything is known in advance.
It’s always been amazing to me

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about how the Lord Jesus left.
His disciples and Acts chapter

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1, you know, they’d been with
him.

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Everything that’s go here.
We’re going to do this.

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We’re going to do that.
They were so dependent upon

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Jesus.
And when we turn over to Acts

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chapter 1, Look at the
instructions that he gives them

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verse 6 when they therefore were
come together, they asked of him

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saying, Lord wilt thou at this
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Again the kingdom to Israel.
In other words, you’re going to

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do it right now or we’re here on
the Mount of Olives.

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We remember the Zechariah
prophecy.

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Are you going to restore again?
The kingdom in Israel and he

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says, in verse 7, it is not for
you to know the times or the

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seasons which the father hath
put In his own power.

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And other words, it’s not for
you to know the specific time,

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but he goes on to say this, but
you shall receive power after

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that.
The Holy Spirit has come upon

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you and ye shall be Witnesses
unto me, both in Jerusalem and

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in all Judea, and in Samaria.
And unto the uttermost part of

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the world are the Earth.
And then when he had spoken

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these things beheld, he was they
beheld.

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He was taken away from them, and
I can only imagine if I were

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there and I was one of them
might be saying, wait a second.

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We have a few questions before.
You leave.

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Tell us.
Wait, who’s going to go to

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Samaria?
Who’s going to stand in

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Jerusalem?
How long are we supposed to stay

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here?
And when you say the uttermost

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part of the earth, were you
talking about and who’s going to

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go there?
And how are we going to speak

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the language to these people and
how we going to overcome customs

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and language differences?
And how about Gentiles, what are

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we supposed to do?
The Gentile converts?

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Are they going to have to be
incorporated to become Jews Like

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Us?
Are they going to have to be

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circumcised and keep the law?
Are they going to have to become

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proselytes?
I mean there would be so many

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questions that we would all
have.

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But how did things actually work
out well.

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Who went to Samaria?
Well, Philip went to Samaria.

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And why did he go there?
Because while he was taking care

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of the Widow’s, he was
persecuted, he fled there.

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It wasn’t his preparation to go
to to Samaria and the issue of

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the converts of the Gentiles.
It was really decided by a

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really difficult meeting that
help.

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Happened in Jerusalem where they
had seen evidence of Jewish

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converts, non-circumcised Jewish
converts, who were embracing the

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gospel, and who was it?
That was going to go into these

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uttermost parts.
Well, a person who was to become

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the chief persecutor of the
early church.

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So you see this is the way it
always happens.

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It happens in 2020 and it
happened back at the beginnings

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of the Gospel message the plan
of Jesus for their work was

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revealed over time and through
events that they likely would

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not have seen coming.
Their job was to have the faith

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to do the work.
That was set before them and I’m

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concerned.
I’m absolutely convinced

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brothers and sisters this is
true for us.

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What we need to do is to have
the faith to learn about the

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messages.
The Lord is bringing into our

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lives.
So that when he puts the work in

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front of us, We’ll be able to do
it because he prepared us.

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Now, I’d like to shift gears for
a moment and and just have you

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turned over to Second Timothy.
Second, Timothy Chapter 2, all,

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we all know this passage second,
Timothy Chapter 2 because this

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is where we go to talk about the
inspiration of scriptures.

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And it talks about how Timothy
had in verse 15 known the holy

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scriptures which are able to
make thee wise unto salvation

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through faith, which is in
Christ Jesus.

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And then it goes on to say, all
scripture is given by

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inspiration of God, and is
profitable for Doctrine for

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reproof for correction for
instruction, in righteousness.

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All right.
So that’s what we see about.

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The study of the word.
It should be done with the idea

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that when we study the word, it
is going to reshape our minds.

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It’s going to prepare our minds.
And how does it do that?

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Well, it does it by Doctrine.
And then Word Doctrine there is

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not just about what we see in
like a statement of faith, it is

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about being able to understand
what truth is.

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So that we can have a standard
that we can live by and reproof

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is about helping us to
understand and to discern where

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we’ve gone wrong so that we can
use it as a basis of

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self-examination.
In correction is what restores

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us to a right state that brings
us closer to that standard and

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finally instruction in
righteousness, is the idea of

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careful training instruction.
All right, so if we read the

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word, we know that we’re being
instructed, we’re getting the

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right standard.
It’s shaping our minds.

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So we can be able to tell where
we are departing from the nerd

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and get us back to the standard.
Now, what’s the purpose?

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Well, we have to read verse 17.
That the man of God may be

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perfect.
Seen that word before throughly

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furnished.
Unto all good works.

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I’d love that verse that the man
of God may be perfect throughly.

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Furnished unto all good works.
It’s not thoroughly furnished.

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I was corrected.
When I read that wrong, when I

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was a younger, man, it’s the
word throughly.

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And I love that word throughly
because it’s through the Lord,

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that we are perfected eats
through the war.

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The Lord that we work.
He will furnish us unto all good

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works.
Remember in Acts 15, the Paul

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and Barnabas talked about the
Wonders and the Miracles that

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God had worked through them.
So Bible study has drawn us

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together as a community, and if
we’re not careful, sometimes it

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can be something that becomes a
source of Pride or

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self-reliance.
But there’s a reason for

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studying the Bible and the
reason is is it’s enjoyable.

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It’s a challenge for our minds.
It is useful for correction, but

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what it does is It prepares us
for the work that God is

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preparing us to do each time our
Oak, we open our Bibles.

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What we ought to be thinking is
how can I learn something here

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that I might be able to apply in
the future in my life.

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The last consideration brothers
and sisters is in Galatians.

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So if you turn back to me, with
me to Galatians, Chapter 6 here.

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We see the word cat Ortiz.
A one more time.

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Relations chapter 6.
Verse 1 Brethren.

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If a man be overtaken in a
fault.

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Ye, which are spiritual cat
Artis.

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Oh, such a one In the spirit of
meekness considering thyself

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lest thou also be tempted bear,
ye one another’s burdens and so

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fulfill the law of Christ.
For if a man think himself to be

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something when he is nothing, he
deceiveth himself.

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Let every man prove his own work
and then shall he have rejoicing

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in himself alone and not another
for every man shall bear his own

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burden.
So that’s an interesting word in

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verse one, restore such a one in
the spirit of meekness.

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That’s the word cat Ortiz, 0.
So when we think of reaching out

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to our brothers and sisters who
are struggling with sin where

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we’re trying to help them, we
shouldn’t be thinking of tearing

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or ripping, or crushing, or
destroying or condemning.

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The word we should be thinking
of is to think of mending, which

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is the word consistent with what
we saw with those fishermen.

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At the city of Capernaum, think
of gently mending how marvelous

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it would be for all of us to
remember in the lessons of our

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life.
That what we are called to do as

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a community as brothers and
sisters is to gently men.

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And so now we turn to the
sacrifice of our Lord.

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He is the one who restores is
the one that prepares our

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hearts, he desires us to do good
work.

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He expects a return on the
investment to rise to the

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occasion when an opportunity or
a talent is placed in front of

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us.
He will chasten us for our

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learning, he will carefully
remove the debris, in the tears

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in our Nets, so that we will be
prepared.

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You see brothers and sisters.
There’s really no room for

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pessimism in our service of the
lord.

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We should put aside all negative
thinking.

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It’s unhelpful when it comes to
limitations that we might have.

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Because in the truth, we are his
workmanship.

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We’re a work of art.
He is gently shaping us mending

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us for his good purpose.
So may each of us put our

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confidence in him for he will
make us perfect in every good

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work to do.
His will working in you that

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which is well pleasing in his
sight through Jesus Christ to

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whom be glory forever and ever.
Amen.

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