198: Steve Mansfield – Exhortation: The Value of Fellowship

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this week we’re listening

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transportation.
That was Kevin, my brother,

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Stephen Mansfield, back in
February of 2021 at the Garden.

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Grove Ecclesia, in Australia.
This excitation was while events

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are still going on with covid-19
and the lockdown.

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And then also was right after
the events that happened in

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January 6th year in the United
States in his excitation

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brother.
Steve is giving us an excellent

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reminder of while.
The amazing things about

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technology that gives us the
ability to be connected, even

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though we’re far apart allowing
things, like this podcast to be

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possible because of all the
recordings that are being done.

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Now even more so than they were
in years past but also stressing

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the importance of being together
as a body.

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Not just connected by a screen
where we’re looking at each

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other.
As we’re now in the summer and

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going on to the season where we
go into Bible schools here I am

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talk reminded me about the
Synergy and the energy that you

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can feel when you’re at your
Bible school with those of like

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Precious Faith to be able to
encourage each other in a way

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that is more.
Fulton any virtual setting might

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be so well the technology that
we enjoy is amazing.

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Also allowed us to do some
incredible things.

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It’s important for us.
Not to lose sight of The

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Importance of Being physically
together in the energy and the

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enthusiasm you can feel when
you’re in a room, whether it’s

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seeing him just hearing the buzz
of people talking after they

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hear a really good execution or
after the conclusion of a good

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class.
So wanted to share this, This

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expectation that was sent over a
little bit ago, but stock, it

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was still a really good point.
So hopefully that you will enjoy

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this extrication by Brother
Steve Mansfield on the topic of

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the value of Fellowship.
Good morning, my dear brothers

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and sisters in our Lord.
Jesus Christ.

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What an amazing week.
It’s been as we’re sort of

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watched the great superpower of
America on a knife edge

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wondering, which way it’s going
to go and from four years ago,

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where mr.
Trump made his Catchphrase.

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Let’s make America great again.
Of course, it’s spiral down into

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Division disunity and almost
Rebellion, well, not only has

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this week been interesting but
the whole year really has know

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what an amazing year for all of
us are very different and

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distinct and remarkable year in
the Life Time of all of us.

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And this whole covid crisis has
been very hard for us to deal

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with here in Australia.
And of course, even worse in

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some of the overseas countries
Europe, they tell me he’s going

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to hit the peak in.
Aubry.

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So all the statistics that are
coming in now are going to sort

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of Ascend through to February
next year.

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So what an amazing world and of
course, right through the Middle

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East, they’ve been sending
significant events as well with

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the Abraham Accord being signed
off.

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So there are some again, some
wonderful and significant events

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that are happening there and
meanwhile governments are

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pouring trillions of dollars
into their economies to try and

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prop it up and keep the world
going and they say you covid

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doesn’t get you there.
The financial crisis will.

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So, you know, not much happiness
ahead of us.

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Well, ahead of us, of course,
there is the return of Jesus

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Christ, but for the world in
general, they’re struggling with

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all these events and trying to
come to terms with them.

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So, this morning, I want to talk
about the value of friendship,

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because, of course, all of us
have been impacted by covid.

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And even as we greet each other
at the media, we’re sort of a

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little bit apprehensive, as to,
well, do, we do an elbow knock

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or a fist punch, or a kick in
The Shins or we’re not quite

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sure what it is.
But certainly, He, we need to

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emphasize for all this the value
of Fellowship, because some of

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us are getting quite comforted
with, not coming along to the

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meeting.
And we’re saying, well, it’s

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very convenient for us to
recline on the couch.

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And to, you know, watch a
brother from either this

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foreclosure overseas or anywhere
give a particular talk and for

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us, you know, that’s quite
convenient comfortable.

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Well, not at all brothers and
sisters.

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We need to remind ourselves.
If nothing else this impact of

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covid and how critical and how
important physical Fellowship is

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for us and we’re going to see
this particularly in this event

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of the Apostle Paul here in Acts
chapter 21 and I do have to

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thank Brother Scott for the
reading.

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I did acts 21 and 22 is the
reading for the day, but I

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noticed that the end of Acts
chapter 21.

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The finishing word is saying,
and it sort of continues on into

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into a chapter 22.
So I thought, well, you know,

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that’s going to be rather long
reading.

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So we did chop it verse 17,
which is idiot because fins are

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finishes on a positive note and
that’s really the thrust of our

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exaltation this morning.
So we know from our readings

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last night that in Chapter 20,
The Ephesian members the owners

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of the Ecclesia met with the
Apostle Paul to show their

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respect and their love, their
appreciation for his work.

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That was over three years in
particular, for this Ephesian

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grew and in chapter 20.
And verse 36, we have this final

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scene, it’s very tender Farewell
verse 36 of chapter 20 which is

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the introduction to our
comments.

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This morning.
It said when he had thus, this

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is the Apostle Paul spoken.
He kneeled down and he prayed

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with them all.
He wept saw and he knew down and

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he prayed with and this this
wasn’t the women and the

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children of the Ecclesia.
This was the arranging Brethren.

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These were the Earl ders of the
Ephesian.

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Ecclesia Who had traveled 80
kilometers in my calculation.

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That’s a walk of about twelve
hours.

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A walk of about 12 hours to
catch this final contract with

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the Apostle, Paul, because they
would see his face no more, they

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wanted to have a conversation
with the Apostle Paul and

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receive his personal spiritual
advice.

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I didn’t dismiss it and say,
well, it’s too far to go.

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They wanted to connect to the
Apostle Paul in these final

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moments and the record says,
they wet saw and they fill on

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Paul’s Nick, they embraced and
they kissed him, you know, very

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reminiscent.
Was it between, I think the

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meeting between David and
Jonathan.

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In those final moments, first 2
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record says, David arose, out of
a place toward the South he fell

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on his face.
To the granny bear himself,

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three times.
And they kissed one another and

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wept until David exceeded, many
possible.

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Paul knows that it’s going to be
very tenuous future in his

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progression through to
Jerusalem.

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He’s been warned on many
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He’s a little bit tense and it’s
not dissimilar to David who had

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been anointed as king and now
he’s on the run, through the

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Wilderness and he meets with
Jonathan, they weep together.

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The Friendship is split because
of the circumstances and David

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his left exiling through through
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There’s a lot of tension in your
both of those stories tragic

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situation.
And it’s the same here because

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we get a bit of an Insight.
I think into really the full

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dimension of the personality,
the Apostle, Paul, and offer.

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We thinking of him as a man,
that was independent.

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He had an iron, will he had a
self determination?

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He had courage to preach the
gospel.

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Nobody was going to stop him.
He’s going to do his own thing.

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Well, now we’re seeing the
spiritual maturity of the

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Apostle Paul, and his love for
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And that personal contact that
he found so necessary in the

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struggle, that he was going.
Right?

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I like to have a coloring in
exercise for every X or do I do

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in the coloring in exercise for
us all this morning.

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I’ll tell you the verses in the
phrase is we’re going to pick

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out the phrases where the
Apostle Paul connected with his

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brothers and sisters.
So of course little phrase.

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Is he?
The first one is in 20:37, they

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all wept saw.
Okay.

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This is a very inclusive phrase
in which Paul Luke and the

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brothers that were traveling
with them connected to a number

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of it.
Clear.

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Asia’s, as they travel toward
Jerusalem.

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So first 37, they all wept saw
verse 38, they accompanied him.

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These are all terms of
Fellowship, chapter 21 and verse

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1.
We were gotten from them torn

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from them.
So this an emotional context in

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a particular phrase, verse for
finding disciple.

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So you can see this is building
to the importance of Fellowship

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verse 5.
They all brought us on our way.

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End of verse 5, we knew down on
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Verse six, we taken our leave.
One of another end of verse 7.

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We have bowed with them.
End of verse 8.

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We Abode with him verse 10,
tarried there many days you can

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see this terminology and then
across the page verse 16 went

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with us.
And finally, in verse 17, in

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verse 17, the brothers received
as gladly she seen this

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narrative is not just simply a
Personal Diary of Luke as he

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calculating the number of days
to Pentecost because Paul want

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to be in Jerusalem and that time
period, it’s the inclusiveness

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and the connectedness with which
Paul received And enjoyed the

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company of brothers and sisters.
So the narrative in verse 1 of

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chapter 21, says it came to pass
after we were gotten from them

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in the King James, of course, we
just gloss over that phrase, but

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it is quite meaningful.
The Greek word.

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Apostle payoh means to tear
apart, or to dragged forth some

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translations have wheat or
ourselves from them because they

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can understand.
Now, it’s not just we, you know,

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we we left them got on the boat
wave, goodbye.

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It’s we rinsed ourselves from
our from our blood.

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There’s an assistance right from
our contact with them and the

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same word is used in the Lord.
Jesus Christ in the Garden of

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Gethsemane when he withdrew
himself from his disciples and

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pride.
So Luke 22 verse 41 says, and he

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was withdrawn from them about a
stone’s cast.

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He tore himself from those
disciples.

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He wanted to remain within that,
within the context of those men,

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he wanted that human companion
companionship in the The turmoil

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and the stress of Gethsemane and
Christ tore himself from those

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men and he went and he pried he
was desperate for that

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fellowship and that human
companionship, that all of us

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know are important on our
journey to the kingdom and the

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same sense is used in Luke
24:51, when Jesus Christ

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ascended into heaven, Luke says,
going to pass, while he blessed

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them, he was parted from them
and went and carried up into

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heaven.
So Imagine that strong

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connection to their lord had
with his, with his men with the

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men that he’d went journey
through for the last three and a

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half years.
He’s now being taken and

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received up into heaven or
records.

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He just started from, you know,
for all of us, I guess we find

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goodbyes very difficult and and
I remember a particular occasion

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in Kunming in the Ecclesia 2019
and we’ve been there for just a

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little bit over a weekend and
done some studies I was doing

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the last talk.
And I wanted to impart to the

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brothers and sisters like a
final message of comfort.

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We didn’t know what was ahead of
us, but we’re leaving a little

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group on their own to survive
through, very difficult,

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circumstances and sister Penny
was translating for me and at

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the end of the study, I gave a
sort of a final goodbye and I

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teared up and basically I did
break down and said we’re going

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to miss you brothers and
sisters.

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We don’t know what the future
holds for all of us.

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This 2019 we don’t know when
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trembling voice and tears
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Just a penny say to us, you
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very hard for the translators to
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But for all of us, you know,
very difficult goodbyes and and

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the same here, in verse 14, the
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Ephesian elders and it’s the
same for us isn’t brothers and

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sisters when we leave this
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Surely.
Surely we love to be here with

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one another.
We’re not out the door.

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At the end of the meeting.
We want to want to move around

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and contact our brothers just as
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understands that’s the whole
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Because at the end of 1st
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phrase that he leaves us?
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what the emblems mean for us.
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So Terry one for another
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So, this is the meaning of the
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joy, and the importance of
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another, And we come to this
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with the brothers and sisters
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for encouragement for commitment
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same journey together, despite
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difficulties, this is where we
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together.
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is continued in verse 4 as well.
The little phrase there is and

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finding disciples.
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for the Apostle.
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there.
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ship and they sought out the
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They sought out the brothers and
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the record seven days with them.
It’s almost as though you know

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it’s a marking point.
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lovely days with the with the
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course we know since when they
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in verse 5, the record says and
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I’ve got We’re all circled here
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goes to see the Apostle Paul off
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narrative with the women and
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Ecclesia is there in seven days,
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concentrated into one heart, and
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to go and see the Apostle Paul
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the end of verse It says, we
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probably what an amazing scene
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Ecclesia with women and with
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the boat.
There’s the harbor, and they’re

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all surrounding the Apostle
Paul, and there’s all these

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goodbyes, and then they all go
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a blessing on the Apostle Paul
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What an amazing scene.
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together.
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When I was thinking about this,
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days in Woodville.
When we used to have amazing

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special efforts and the spirit
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of very excited with vibrant.
It was real and in fact we had a

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number of strategies with which
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sisters and one of them was a
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a massive mapper world map would
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visiting speaker from America,
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way across to Australia.
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by the arranging Brethren to be
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would move one dash every week,
so that half a year, would start

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up front with the special
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would see that plane move.
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the Atlantic for a week or so.
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interesting but you know where
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So the Ecclesia is very fervent,
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And then, to our amazement, we
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tape of the brother who’s given
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on a Wednesday night, you know,
some official would come down

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with a cassette player, put the
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and we’d all listen, and we’d
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American brother and we tickle
you, okay, little bit Stout,

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little bit overweight, short
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Ha ha ha, and then someone like
brother standees Bill to turn

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up, you know, six foot eight or
something and you know, tall and

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lanky.
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there was a real excitement
about our special effort

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together.
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like this situation here, we’d
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we stand out the dc9 or whatever
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start up and we’d all say
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planer turn around.
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Cairo or It was coming out of
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goodbye, where’s that gone
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nowadays we probably even barely
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Does the special effort?
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aspect of excitement is is
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days have gone well and truly
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I think in our one-on-one
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create their ask atmosphere here
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concern and interest in one eye.
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Well, first six goes on.
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leave one of another taken leave
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they went High.
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disconnection there, but I don’t
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Justice to what the Greek means.
So in in verse 6, it says taken

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leave one.
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Greek word.
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arms.
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on the boat they left.
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No, they in folded one.
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Greek.
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11, verse 40, where Mary saluted
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King James.
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It is my, my Bible of preference
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but saluted doesn’t quite give
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saluted and and that was it.
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I’ll be marrying.
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Every struggling with this whole
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be the mother of the Lord Jesus
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As he heads down to contact
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another in their arms because
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life, they wanted to encourage
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arms.
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verse 7.
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ptolemaeus which is modern-day
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verse 7, we saluted the
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enfold in the arms and this word
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James version is used mostly in
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is significant.
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It’s a list of brothers and
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salutes.
And at the end of Romans, which

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we know is a, an expository book
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finishes it with a whole chapter
on how he wants to enfold his

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brothers and sisters in his
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Houston, second Corinthians, 13,
verse 12 greet one, another with

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an holy kiss.
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difficult for us to do that
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certain restrictions.
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standoffish sort of guys that
one another as we sort of

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Welcome each other.
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handle that.
And it’s very frustrating with

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the restrictions that we have,
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that we’re here as much as
possible while Can’t necessarily

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physically contact and welcome
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That we’re actually here and
engaging in conversation,

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one-on-one, and not losing that,
emotional personal connection

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with each other.
It’s really important.

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And I know a lot of a treat
Ecclesia struggling with this

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whole concept of try to get
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Even, although there are many
seats empty and brothers and

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sisters fighting it convenient,
you know, just to switch on the

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screen and switch it off
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Should be for us.
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He says, look, we Abode one day
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I almost see the sense that Luke
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to a stop longer than, but we
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them.
That one day was meaningful to

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us.
And today is that day for us

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brothers and sisters What a
privilege for us to come

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together around the time of the
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We know that there are many
brothers and sisters throughout

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the world because of covid
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I think the lesson.
Surely that is emerging for all

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of us is the preciousness of
fellowship and the opportunity

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to get together with one
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So let’s not be apathetic about
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Let’s not find ourselves
comfortable in our homes and the

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Apostle Paul says, do not
forsake the assembling of

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yourselves together as much as
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We want to take hold of that
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Paul continues on his journey,
and in verse 8, the record

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introduces us to a person uses.
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the house of Philip, the
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Abode with him, we just want to
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Philip who is Philip the
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It wasn’t the Apostle Philip, it
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Remember his roll back in Acts 6
was to take care of the Widow’s

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to support those that were only
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to support themselves, but
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for the truth, he’s energetic.
He has a fervor, he has a Zeal

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because he’s called the
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It’s the first time that word
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You know what an evangelist
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A bringer of good news as
someone who promotes the gospel

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and advantages are bringer of
good news, he’s the only person

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in the Bible called by that
title Philip, the Evangelist

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only person, the Bible, And the
reason because he had such a

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positive love of the Gospel.
So you’ll know the back in the

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book of Acts Philip was sent
down to preach to the Ethiopian

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eunuch.
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Philip goes down their acts, 8
verse. 39 is the final finish of

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that story and You Know How It
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on his way.
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And I think that beautifully
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personality of Philip, the
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Chariot explained, Isaiah 53,
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rejoicing, because he was Philip
a bringer of good news, is only

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two other references to
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Ephesians 4 and verse 11.
Where Paul says God is What it

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in the occlusion, some pasta,
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He’s talking about the different
roles and attributes that we

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bring into the occlusion.
We may not be a past, we may not

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be a teacher.
We may be a person who imparts

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good positive news to people to
try and lift up their heads and

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they go away rejoicing.
Maybe that’s who we are and the

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other one is second Timothy 4
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watch all things do the work of
an evangelist and I think

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Brothers do this is in 2020.
This is who we can become

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especially with the people that
we mix in the world where that’s

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at Uni, whether it’s in our
place of employment, whether

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it’s a mother’s group that we
meet with.

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There are people who are anxious
about where this is all going,

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what it means in life and we can
be the bringer of good news to

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say that they’re bigger better,
brighter world that Jesus Christ

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is bringing and he’s got the
solution to every single problem

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that all these governments and
authorities are trying to handle

435
00:25:11,900 –> 00:25:15,200
and they’re not doing very well.
We can be The bearers of good

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00:25:15,200 –> 00:25:18,700
news.
Well, Luke also notes, he adds

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this little point, one of the
seven, one of the seven, So each

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tracking back, 20 years to an
event that devastated.

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Philip, And of course that event
was the untimely death of

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Phillips best friend.
It was Stephen, remember the

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whole, seven, Philip, and steep,
they’re all grouped together.

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00:25:44,100 –> 00:25:48,000
These were Brethren, who bonded
and know what vibrant in, not

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00:25:48,000 –> 00:25:50,700
only caring for the widows.
But disseminating, a distilling,

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the truth of God’s message.
Philip would have been if he was

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one of the seven affected by the
untimely, death of Stephen

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00:25:58,300 –> 00:26:04,100
Shattered by Who caused that he
calls that debt world record,

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00:26:04,100 –> 00:26:09,200
says they laid their coats at
the feet of a man called saw in

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chapter 22 verse 20.
Paul says, when the blood of

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Stephen was shed, I consented to
his death.

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So this is very interesting
because now, for the first time,

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it appears this man saw the
apart.

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Now, the Apostle Paul comes into
the house of Philip and the

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value of Fellowship brothers and
sisters is in repair, isn’t it

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00:26:31,600 –> 00:26:36,700
reconciliation rebuilding
helping supporting and here, I

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00:26:36,700 –> 00:26:40,600
just see this lovely narrative
by Luke where he says this was a

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very interesting connection with
the Apostle Paul and was Philip

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00:26:44,600 –> 00:26:49,200
the Evangelist where the past
was forgotten and the future

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00:26:49,700 –> 00:26:55,000
was, of course developed and
highlighted Well, not only that

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00:26:55,000 –> 00:26:58,500
but we know it’s about Philip.
There’s another little addition

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00:26:58,500 –> 00:27:01,100
in verse 9 says, he had four
daughters.

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They were prophetesses, and I
think it’s a beautiful because

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00:27:04,700 –> 00:27:08,200
Philip obviously is a bringer of
good news but he’s not.

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00:27:08,200 –> 00:27:12,400
So busy outside.
The realm of his family that he

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00:27:12,400 –> 00:27:17,700
didn’t passion eyes, his own
family and here’s the evidence

465
00:27:17,700 –> 00:27:19,800
of, you know, gospel
Proclamation and a beautiful

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00:27:19,800 –> 00:27:24,700
form his daughters Was so
enraptured with the truth.

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They dedicated themselves to
serving God Beyond marriage.

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They weren’t married.
And they were devoted to the

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truth.
I guess that’s a blessing.

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00:27:37,900 –> 00:27:40,300
I’m not quite sure.
I sort of picture myself, you

471
00:27:40,300 –> 00:27:42,700
know, the birth of the fourth
daughter, and someone tells

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Phillip it’s another daughter.
And he says, I’ve already got

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00:27:45,700 –> 00:27:50,500
three, but four daughters, go
over son and I’m not quite sure

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00:27:50,500 –> 00:27:52,700
in family life where daughters
were, the daughters are easier

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00:27:52,700 –> 00:27:54,800
to bring up than Sons.
I’m not quite sure.

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00:27:55,000 –> 00:27:56,800
Family.
Life doesn’t always necessarily

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00:27:56,800 –> 00:28:00,100
go the way we think it will go,
but I just think it’s very

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00:28:00,100 –> 00:28:03,900
wonderful that Philip here.
The Avengers was able to involve

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00:28:04,000 –> 00:28:07,000
his daughters, his family in
Truth and certainly that

480
00:28:07,000 –> 00:28:10,500
positive spirit that he had as
an individual carried through to

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00:28:10,500 –> 00:28:12,100
those that were very close to
him.

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00:28:13,300 –> 00:28:16,200
Well, verse 10, of course,
there’s an introduction to

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00:28:16,200 –> 00:28:19,100
another man.
Verse 10 says, we tarry there,

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many days and there came from
Judea a certain Prophet named

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agabus.
Why agabus I mean this for

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00:28:25,700 –> 00:28:30,700
prophetesses here but surely
could have explained to the

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Apostle Paul what the future
held for him.

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And in fact, the Apostle, Paul
already knew that in a sense,

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because if you look across the
page, ship to 20 and verse 22.

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And 23, Paul says, behold I go
Bound in the spirit to Jerusalem

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00:28:46,900 –> 00:28:50,400
not knowing the things that
before me save the Holy Spirit

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00:28:50,400 –> 00:28:53,800
Witnesses in every city that
bonds and afflictions are white

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00:28:53,800 –> 00:28:57,400
or abide.
Me and Paul already knew that.

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00:28:57,400 –> 00:29:01,200
So why send agabus here in verse
10?

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00:29:01,200 –> 00:29:05,500
Well, because agabus was an old
friend of the Also pulls back in

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00:29:05,500 –> 00:29:09,400
Action, he’s mentioned back in
Acts 11 and verse 28, ten years

497
00:29:09,400 –> 00:29:12,700
ago.
He warned of a famine that was

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00:29:12,700 –> 00:29:16,800
going to Encompass Jerusalem and
obviously impact on the Widow’s.

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00:29:17,400 –> 00:29:19,400
The brothers and sisters there
in Jerusalem.

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And the record back there, says
that Paul and Barnabas who were

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00:29:23,400 –> 00:29:26,900
members of the Antioch, Ecclesia
came to Jerusalem because I just

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00:29:26,900 –> 00:29:30,000
taken up a collection, they came
down to Jerusalem and handed

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00:29:30,000 –> 00:29:33,600
that over to the Jerusalem.
Ecclesia that was ten years ago

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00:29:33,700 –> 00:29:36,700
and Here is agabus again, and
now very beautifully.

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00:29:36,800 –> 00:29:41,300
Paul is bringing a large
donation from all the Ecclesia

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00:29:41,300 –> 00:29:45,200
as with the Brethren to the poor
brothers and sisters there in

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00:29:45,200 –> 00:29:47,600
Jerusalem.
Paul in one sense is circling,

508
00:29:47,800 –> 00:29:50,700
he’s completing the task.
He set himself to do.

509
00:29:50,700 –> 00:29:54,500
Because in some senses, he was
the instigator of perhaps, some

510
00:29:54,500 –> 00:29:57,600
of the issues that those widows
would have had to experience in

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00:29:57,600 –> 00:30:01,900
Jerusalem because Paul carted
off many of the brothers In the

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00:30:01,900 –> 00:30:04,800
truth prior to his conversion.
So there was obviously a

513
00:30:04,808 –> 00:30:07,700
practical flow on of the
difficulty that he created.

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00:30:07,700 –> 00:30:11,200
So, cycling around here is
agabus again, and Paul is coming

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to complete.
The task that he set himself to

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00:30:13,400 –> 00:30:17,000
do.
Well after this as we know

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00:30:17,000 –> 00:30:22,200
agabus takes his his belt and
binds it and the record is that

518
00:30:22,300 –> 00:30:26,400
everybody was upset in verse 12.
When we heard these things we

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00:30:26,400 –> 00:30:29,100
and they have that place is Paul
don’t go to Jerusalem.

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00:30:30,300 –> 00:30:35,300
And Paul says, in verse 13, what
may need to weep and break my

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00:30:35,300 –> 00:30:39,000
heart.
Just think of that situation.

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00:30:39,100 –> 00:30:42,200
Here’s dr.
Luke here’s these Faithful Men

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00:30:42,200 –> 00:30:44,900
to the traveled with the Apostle
Paul for many, many weeks,

524
00:30:45,600 –> 00:30:48,900
encouraging talking to
collecting.

525
00:30:49,800 –> 00:30:53,400
And now, all of them are
displaying strong emotion.

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00:30:53,400 –> 00:30:55,000
It’s going to pull.
Don’t go Paul.

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00:30:55,000 –> 00:30:59,400
This is not a good decision.
And there’s these strong

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emotional endearments weeping
breaking my heart.

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00:31:03,900 –> 00:31:05,100
There’s a lot of pressure on
Paul.

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00:31:05,100 –> 00:31:06,800
Basically.
The brothers were saying, take

531
00:31:06,800 –> 00:31:08,800
it.
Easy pull, take it easy.

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00:31:10,800 –> 00:31:13,800
It was almost a pattern here.
We’ll there is a pattern between

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00:31:13,800 –> 00:31:16,800
the the last few hours of the
Lord’s life, as he began in the

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00:31:16,800 –> 00:31:19,100
upper room and worked his way
through to the cross.

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00:31:19,200 –> 00:31:23,200
It almost parallels here.
Thus this experience with the

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00:31:23,200 –> 00:31:28,200
Apostle Paul and you remember it
was Peter Peter, the record says

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00:31:28,200 –> 00:31:32,500
it took him and he began to
rebuke Jesus saying, be it far

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00:31:32,500 –> 00:31:35,400
from the Lord.
This shall not be up to because

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00:31:35,400 –> 00:31:38,600
Jesus said he is going to
Jerusalem and Peter says in the

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00:31:38,608 –> 00:31:41,200
Greek Lord, take pity on
yourself.

541
00:31:42,100 –> 00:31:45,400
Take pity on yourself in the
Lord knowing where he could go

542
00:31:45,400 –> 00:31:46,900
with that.
Thought process, cabinet

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00:31:46,900 –> 00:31:49,500
immediately and rebuked.
Peter and said, no, I’m

544
00:31:49,500 –> 00:31:52,800
determined to go to Jerusalem.
This almost an interplay of that

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00:31:52,800 –> 00:31:58,500
whole circumstance here.
And, in fact, verse 24, it’s

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00:31:58,500 –> 00:32:00,300
almost an echo.
The words of the Lord Jesus

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00:32:00,300 –> 00:32:02,600
Christ.
Isn’t verse 24 of chapter, 20,

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00:32:02,900 –> 00:32:06,600
chapter 20, verse 24.
Paul says, None of these things

549
00:32:06,600 –> 00:32:09,100
move me.
I don’t count my life.

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00:32:09,100 –> 00:32:13,000
Dear unto myself, I’m going to
finish my course with joy and

551
00:32:13,000 –> 00:32:15,600
the ministry that I’ve received
the Lord Jesus Christ.

552
00:32:15,700 –> 00:32:19,700
Paul is going to Jerusalem to
finish his course with joy and

553
00:32:19,700 –> 00:32:22,000
was the Lord Jesus Christ and
you exactly the same.

554
00:32:22,100 –> 00:32:25,800
He told Peter get behind me.
And then in his final moment,

555
00:32:25,800 –> 00:32:29,000
Lord receive my spirit and that
was said with joy.

556
00:32:29,000 –> 00:32:32,500
It was the completion of that
task there in Jerusalem.

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00:32:33,700 –> 00:32:36,400
Well, you know, this causes bit
of a problem because you know,

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00:32:36,400 –> 00:32:39,800
was Paul being silly about this.
I mean, he’s been warned in

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00:32:39,800 –> 00:32:42,000
every city that this is going to
happen.

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00:32:43,900 –> 00:32:46,900
Well, they were warning, Paul.
They were just pre-empting Paul

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00:32:46,900 –> 00:32:49,400
that this would not be an easy
situation.

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00:32:50,300 –> 00:32:54,000
Paul wasn’t actually forbidden
of the spirit itself because

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I’ll give you the chapter where
he was Acts 16, Verse 6.

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00:32:57,900 –> 00:33:01,400
And 7 says, you remember the
situation who’s going to go up

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00:33:01,400 –> 00:33:05,200
into by thinner and to Asia, and
the record says, he was

566
00:33:05,200 –> 00:33:07,800
forbidden of the spirit to
preach in Asia.

567
00:33:07,900 –> 00:33:10,700
He has saved to gonna buy thin
air, but the spirit could not

568
00:33:10,700 –> 00:33:12,500
allow it.
So, there’s a situation where

569
00:33:12,500 –> 00:33:16,600
that was very, very clear, what
these prophets and the message

570
00:33:16,600 –> 00:33:19,700
is saying, is Paul, if you
continue to Jerusalem, life is

571
00:33:19,700 –> 00:33:22,500
going to get Difficult for you.
It’s going to be very difficult.

572
00:33:23,200 –> 00:33:25,100
There are saying be prepared,
you know, that’s the same

573
00:33:25,100 –> 00:33:26,900
advice.
We give young people isn’t as

574
00:33:26,900 –> 00:33:28,800
they set out on the course of
life.

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00:33:29,300 –> 00:33:32,600
And as they’re baptized, we
don’t we don’t just say them

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00:33:32,600 –> 00:33:34,600
what, you know, life in the
truth is going to be wonderful.

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00:33:34,600 –> 00:33:37,000
It’s going to be a garden of
roses.

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00:33:37,100 –> 00:33:39,800
Everything will smooth out,
you’ll become wealthy, you’ll

579
00:33:39,800 –> 00:33:41,700
have a great job.
We don’t say any of that, of

580
00:33:41,700 –> 00:33:44,300
course, when our young people
are baptized or they’re going

581
00:33:44,300 –> 00:33:46,000
through tradition, we say to
them.

582
00:33:46,000 –> 00:33:49,200
Look, this is a big decision.
It’s a fantastic decision.

583
00:33:49,200 –> 00:33:52,400
It’s a wonderful Decision but
realize that you will have

584
00:33:52,400 –> 00:33:55,500
problems that you need to do
with, and that’s exactly what is

585
00:33:55,500 –> 00:33:59,200
happening here.
Well pull.

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00:33:59,200 –> 00:34:02,000
I guess could have retracted.
He could have said look, yeah,

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00:34:02,000 –> 00:34:04,100
sure enough.
I’m not going to Jerusalem you

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00:34:04,100 –> 00:34:08,100
guys continue on the way with
the donation, but the Apostle

589
00:34:08,100 –> 00:34:12,699
Paul knowing the value of
Fellowship, wanted to personally

590
00:34:12,699 –> 00:34:15,699
go to Jerusalem and give this to
the Ecclesia.

591
00:34:16,199 –> 00:34:19,699
He was not unconnected by the
personal problems that others

592
00:34:19,699 –> 00:34:22,300
were facing and perhaps which he
originally had been a

593
00:34:22,308 –> 00:34:26,800
contributor So Paul’s mission in
life, wasn’t just simply to

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00:34:26,800 –> 00:34:29,400
preach the gospel.
We might have imagined that it

595
00:34:29,400 –> 00:34:33,400
was also to take personal care
of brothers and sisters that

596
00:34:33,400 –> 00:34:37,100
were struggling.
I wonder whether you know, we

597
00:34:37,100 –> 00:34:40,800
need to do a sort of a recap on
our own laws, their own attitude

598
00:34:41,000 –> 00:34:43,000
as to what is our level of
service.

599
00:34:44,600 –> 00:34:47,100
Sometimes when we hear a person
is going through a difficult

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00:34:47,100 –> 00:34:48,500
time.
We think, you know what, I’ll do

601
00:34:48,500 –> 00:34:50,800
something Brave.
I’ll reach for my phone and send

602
00:34:50,800 –> 00:34:53,699
an SMS message and that’s all we
ever do.

603
00:34:55,199 –> 00:34:58,200
And then we say, look, you know,
I find it difficult to get to

604
00:34:58,207 –> 00:35:01,100
the meeting.
I know I can’t get into an

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00:35:01,100 –> 00:35:03,900
air-conditioned car and I can’t
go to an air-conditioned Hall

606
00:35:03,900 –> 00:35:06,900
and I can’t sit at the meeting.
I’d rather recline on my couch,

607
00:35:08,200 –> 00:35:11,300
you know, we need to maybe recap
and rethink about our lives and

608
00:35:11,300 –> 00:35:14,200
what our attitude is to one
another.

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00:35:14,800 –> 00:35:17,400
For Paul, it was about personal
commitment, was about

610
00:35:17,400 –> 00:35:21,400
one-on-one, was kept caring for
his brothers and sisters, and

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00:35:21,400 –> 00:35:27,000
you notice across the page in
verse 16, His brothers went from

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00:35:27,000 –> 00:35:30,300
caesarea, they were so connected
to Paul.

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00:35:30,500 –> 00:35:33,300
They were so supportive of all
they didn’t say see you, Paul

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00:35:33,300 –> 00:35:35,700
best of luck in Jerusalem.
No.

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00:35:36,000 –> 00:35:40,800
Verse 16 says, they’re went with
us certain of the Disciples of

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00:35:40,800 –> 00:35:44,000
caesarea.
That’s 100 case.

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00:35:45,200 –> 00:35:50,500
It’s a 23 hour walk.
So they were, they were

618
00:35:50,508 –> 00:35:52,700
definitely once Paul made the
decision, they were coming

619
00:35:52,700 –> 00:35:56,700
alongside Paul and so we walk
with you through this difficult

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00:35:56,700 –> 00:36:02,200
time and then the record says,
they conducted Paul 21.

621
00:36:02,600 –> 00:36:04,000
The King James is not quite
correct.

622
00:36:04,000 –> 00:36:07,700
It’s not brought with them.
It’s they conducted Paul to one

623
00:36:07,700 –> 00:36:09,800
nation of Cyprus and old
disciples.

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00:36:09,800 –> 00:36:12,900
He came and he stopped with
Nason who was in Jerusalem.

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00:36:13,900 –> 00:36:15,700
Comment, there is he’s an old
disciple.

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00:36:15,900 –> 00:36:19,400
Different translation says one
of the first disciples This is

627
00:36:19,400 –> 00:36:23,300
believed that since the early
days Rotherham says and early

628
00:36:23,400 –> 00:36:26,200
disciple.
So he is perhaps an original

629
00:36:26,200 –> 00:36:30,300
convert prior to the crucifixion
of the Lord Jesus Christ, and

630
00:36:30,300 –> 00:36:33,900
brother, mate nation is still
faithful.

631
00:36:35,300 –> 00:36:37,900
He’s an early disciple.
He’s an old disciple little

632
00:36:37,900 –> 00:36:40,600
phrase that I’ve got here.
It says, don’t grow cold, as you

633
00:36:40,600 –> 00:36:43,800
grow old little bit of poetry.
All right.

634
00:36:43,800 –> 00:36:47,100
Don’t go cold as you grow old.
You know, that’s easy to do.

635
00:36:48,800 –> 00:36:52,000
There is someone that got old
and they got cold that Solomon

636
00:36:52,000 –> 00:36:56,400
in First Kings 11 and verse 4,
it says when Solomon was old his

637
00:36:56,400 –> 00:36:59,400
wives turned, his heart away to
other gods and his heart wasn’t

638
00:36:59,400 –> 00:37:02,800
wholly devoted to Yahweh.
He’s got his was David’s, got

639
00:37:02,800 –> 00:37:04,700
old and you know things got a
little bit more.

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00:37:05,100 –> 00:37:09,800
Got to be cold.
But this disciple here was a

641
00:37:09,800 –> 00:37:14,300
disciple of long-standing and
Paul came into his house.

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00:37:15,700 –> 00:37:20,100
I would imagine Paul valued very
highly, the status of this older

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00:37:20,100 –> 00:37:22,900
brother.
Now we’ve talked about different

644
00:37:23,000 –> 00:37:28,400
brothers and sisters.
We talked about in verse 5 those

645
00:37:28,400 –> 00:37:34,300
that were very supportive of the
of the work that the Apostle

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00:37:34,300 –> 00:37:37,300
Paul was doing.
We’ve talked about those who are

647
00:37:37,308 –> 00:37:40,200
enthusiastic in verse 8, like
Philip the Evangelist and his

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00:37:40,200 –> 00:37:41,600
daughters.
We’ve talked about, those are

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emotional and verse 13 but
they’re here in this This is an

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older brother Who provided
encouragement in his consistent

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and faithful example.
You’ve got brothers and sisters.

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The like that in your Oakley.
Who I know that we spoke to

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Brother, David this morning.
I mean, these these are our

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older brothers and sisters, who
have gone through very

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difficult, times are such an
encouragement for all of us.

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We respect and we honor them.
And the Apostle Paul did exactly

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the same.
And so we note in verse 17, when

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we were come to Jerusalem, the
brothers received us, gladly

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word received dam is the Greek
word to welcome with open arms.

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Same word is used to Simeon in
Luke 22 verse 28.

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When the baby Jesus came in and
simply and welcome that.

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He’d been waiting for a lifetime
to meet the Lord’s Christ and he

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took him in his arms.
That’s that word day.

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They welcomed him gladly and you
know, in fact that would gladly

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in the Greek is very
interesting.

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Ask me knows only one other
occur.

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If you bethink the word, gladly
occurs, right through the New

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Testament.
Would you know, only one other

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occurrence Acts 2 verse 41
talking about the Ecclesia.

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It says then they gladly
received his word were baptized

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3000 in one day.
What a buzz, you know, what an

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atmosphere there were people
that receiving the truth.

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Gladly And Hell reassuring for
the Apostle.

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Paul to come all the way to
Jerusalem and find that they

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were Brethren embracing him with
gladness.

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So what do you think?
Brothers and sisters when you

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think of the word Fellowship?
When you think of the word,

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what?
We only think of the word of God

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is it is it that term gladness
Sometimes we get weighed down

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with the pressures of the
difficulties of life and maybe

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that dissipates a little bit,
but I think we need to have that

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reassurance.
That we are so glad that we have

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the word of God.
Does nothing else out there

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2020?
If nothing else has proved to us

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that that world is vaporous and
there’s nothing for us.

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We are so glad that we have the
word of God that we can cling to

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and hold onto and encourage one
another in because there’s a

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better future that’s very, very
close around a corner and how we

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Cheering for Paul that they were
brothers that had that attitude.

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And so we come to the emblems
and our minds reflect on the

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parallel between Jesus Christ,
and the Apostle Paul, our Lord

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was quite sorrowful in the upper
room.

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Just as these Elders that we
talked about the Elders of

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Ephesus wept, and they were
quite sorrowful that they would

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see Paul’s face no more.
And our Lord began a journey

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from the upper room that would
eventually lead to his arrest

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and his death.
And he said to the men in the

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upper room, he said I’ve had
such desire.

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This is the moment that is
really important for me with

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desire.
Have I desired to have this time

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with you before I suffer and
that’s this time we have here

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00:40:58,900 –> 00:41:00,500
Brothers.
This is we don’t know what we’re

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going to face next week at all.
And I think 2020 is made us

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00:41:04,300 –> 00:41:06,000
realize that we never know
what’s around the corner.

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What an important moment for us
to have this time together these

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00:41:12,500 –> 00:41:16,100
moments of fellowship and then
as we know the Lord left the

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00:41:16,100 –> 00:41:19,200
upper room and he’s headed to
the cross and Peter tries to

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00:41:19,200 –> 00:41:23,000
stop in and dissuade him from
going down that direction but

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00:41:23,000 –> 00:41:27,200
the Lord’s answer was not my
will but thine be done.

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Exactly the same.
As the words.

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At the end of verse 14 there,
the will of the Lord be done.

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So, we gather this morning
brothers and sisters, not

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knowing what the journey is
ahead.

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But surely we’re thankful the
company of each other and for

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the input that we have and
occlusal life, the joy and the

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value of fellowship and
together, we await that great

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00:41:50,600 –> 00:41:54,600
day when we will receive the
Lord in our arms.

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00:41:55,600 –> 00:42:01,600
Open Arms, arms of gladness.
And joy, that finally, there is

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a resolution and there is a
solution and an understanding to

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everything that we’ve gone
through in life.

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So let us together in
Fellowship, celebrate that as we

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00:42:13,300 –> 00:42:17,500
eat bread and as we drink wine
and may our heavenly father, be

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with you all in this coming
week, may bring the return of

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our Lord Jesus Christ and then
the experience of unending Joy.

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