208: Andy Bilello – Exhortation: The Weary Ecclesia

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Welcome to good for selfie and
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I’m Levi and I’m Chris and I’m
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We post a new episode of the
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Hand to kind of set the stage

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You’re about to listen to and

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

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This week’s talk is an
excitation by Brother Andy below

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from the Baltimore kaliesha and
Maryland that he presented on

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the 3rd of July in 2022.
It’s a Excellent, exhortation.

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I kind of made up the title of
the weary Ecclesia.

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He is pulling that kind of as an
idea from, from the early

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chapters of Revelation in the
seven inclusions.

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And what he’s talking about is I
think the struggle that

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Baltimore is having but really a
mini occlusions in North America

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and around the world are having,
is kind of redefining what

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occlusal life is after the
pandemic, we posted a lot of

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accusations that have related to
the pandemic.

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It’s obviously been a Historic
time, with all sorts of, you

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know, different things and ways,
and things that ways that it’s

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touched our lives and in ways
that it’s affected our occlusal

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lives.
And I found, this are to be

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really excellent, definitely.
Some emotions came through in

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his talk that that I could
relate with, and I found it to

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be very encouraging and
excellent education.

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So I was excited to share it
after our break.

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I wanted to thank the brothers
Justin Henry Sacramento and

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brother Mike Livermore from
Livonia, Michigan for sharing

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the talks that they found and
giving giving us a break this

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summer.
This is our I guess, third or

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fourth summer.
Now where we take a break and

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have a guest host on, and I want
to thank those Brothers again,

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for their work.
I thought they made some

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excellent choices and it’s
definitely fun in the summer to

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turn into a listener of the
show, instead of a producer of

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it.
So, thanks again to them.

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And this talk, Was also a
suggestion from a sister in the

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Maryland Ecclesia and I really
appreciate that suggestion.

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Do please think about us when
you hear a good talk and send

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one in, we so appreciate it.
So here is the weary Ecclesia by

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Andy below.
Morning brothers and sisters and

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friends.
Each Sunday when We Gather here

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in Arc lygia, we have a purpose
of examining, ourselves fact,

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it’s very common for presiding
brother to quote from First

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Corinthians 11, prior to sharing
the symbols of bread and wine.

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And which the Apostle Paul
instructs us to look inward to

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consider our lives as disciples
and measure ourselves against

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the standard of character.
Lord, Jesus Christ.

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And that is certainly something
that we should reflect upon

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today.
But I suggest that is also

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appropriate times to extend that
self-examination from a cells

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individually to do it.
Collectively, I think it’s

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appropriate that we take a few
moments this morning to consider

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where we are as a group as in a
collision.

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While the Bible emphasizes
personal responsibility and

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there’s no escaping that the
Lord will look at each of us

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individually that individual
character is only influenced and

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then reflected in our
relationships, how we work

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together.
This is something that I’ve been

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thinking about for some months
as we consider how we organize

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ourselves, how we share our
responsibilities as an

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occlusion, and it’s only natural
to look at these introductory

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chapters of the Book of
Revelation in, which were given

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seven, pictures of a collisions
that are meant to give a sense

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of the characteristics that an
Ecclesia can predominantly show

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to others.
Any point in time.

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A brother read the second, the
third chapter.

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But beginning in the second
chapter of revelation, we have

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the following descriptions.
There is first, the Loveless

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Church.
I don’t think we’re a Loveless

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Church.
Really don’t Is the persecuted

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church.
I don’t know that we are

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persecuted systematically or an
organized manner, but certainly,

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there’s the general oppression
of society and its influences

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upon us and the individual
challenges that we faced in our

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own families who are in our own
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There’s the compromising Church
No, you could probably make an

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argument that there’s a thing or
two that we’ve compromised on in

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recent times that we should
think twice about.

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There’s the corrupt church.
I don’t think we’re corrupt.

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I don’t think we’ve gotten to
that point that personal agendas

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take over.
There’s the dead Church.

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There are times that I feel like
we need to be more active or

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engaged in what we’re doing.
Is the faithful Church, which I

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think we would all hope someone
would portray us as verse 10 of

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Revelation chapter 3, speaks of
the faithful Church saying

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because you have kept my command
to persevere.

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I also will keep you from the
hour of trial, which shall come

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upon the whole world to test
those who dwell on the earth.

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Certainly that is applicable in
this era, it’s applicable to our

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experience here in the Baltimore
Ecclesia and we all To be

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cognizant of perseverance, of
enduring of getting past

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whatever challenges we faced
again, whether they be personal

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or shared, and then there’s the
lukewarm Church where you’re

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not.
You’re going about the Motions,

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you’re neither fully invested
emotionally and doing the

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positive things.
But you also continue that

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routine and that veneer and that
surface level.

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Of activity.
I mean, perhaps that is

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something that we’ve reflected
at time from time to time.

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I asked you to give some thought
this morning.

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How would you characterize our
equation?

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Not all of these descriptions
are 100% good, nor 100% bad and

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they are all included.
Towards the conclusion of that

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particular churches description
with.

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They need to overcome whatever
situation they find themselves

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in, they need to improve.
I don’t believe that these

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descriptions in Revelation, 2
and 3 of these churches are

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final judgments.
They are snapshot of what that

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group of people were at that
moment and an assessment from

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the Divine of how they needed to
change for the better.

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I’ve thought about this quite a
bit, and while you can each have

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your own way of portraying our
Ecclesia, I would suggest that

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right now.
We’re certainly in recent

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months, perhaps we could be
termed as a tired Church.

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another word that comes up in
Scripture that I think also

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speaks to our situation is weary
Weary is a term that’s more

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commonly used in many
translations of scripture, and

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it speaks to an emotional
exhaustion, as well as physical

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fatigue.
Can also speak sometimes to a

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lack of patience or
dissatisfaction with your

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situation.
Now admittedly, I might be

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projecting some of my own
personal feelings.

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Into what I perceive is as our
Ecclesia as a whole, but I don’t

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think that that’s necessarily
the case and I think and I

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believe that this is also a
feeling that is shared

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throughout our community.
Let’s, let’s be honest, we’ve

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had so much change in the last
two years.

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We had routines that sometimes
we could take for granted that

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were disrupted as a result of
the pandemic.

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Our relationships in some
instance, many instances have

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been frayed.
They haven’t had, there’s no

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substitute for seeing each other
on a regular basis to understand

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what we’re going through in
life, how we can help it, just

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share simple courtesies.
And as we resumed activity over

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the last it’s almost 18 months.
Now we’ve had to do things

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differently.
That’s not a good or a bad.

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It’s just the reality that
circumstances have changed.

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And that’s put a stress on.
How do we do schedules?

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How do we set up technology?
Who’s doing that work?

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Who’s going to really be here?
Because we’ve had different

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levels of support as some people
weren’t comfortable in being

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with public groups because of
the health concerns.

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I also think as that is extended
on, sometimes that’s become an,

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excuse become complacent, and
it’s easier to stay home.

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Not travel on Sunday, mornings,
not travel on a Friday evening.

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In this is not something again.
That is been experienced only by

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our closure.
One of the reasons I’ve been

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thinking about this for a while.
Last fall we resumed activities.

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Also, I know with the Washington
inclusion.

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We had the Gathering in October,
we had weddings in October and

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in New Year’s and it gave me an
opportunity to speak with

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brothers and sisters from other
occlusions that I had not been

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in contact, with, for several
years and in those Relations, as

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well as talking to my own family
that lives in the midwest.

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Talking to a brother who lives
in California, all ackley’s are

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facing some level of these
challenges.

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Many Achilles has not been able
to resume some of their

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activities at all because their
members just won’t support them

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and people feel the strain that
because we already were a

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community of not great size and
our talent pool has been

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strained.
Even more for who can lead

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classes, who can give
exhortations, who is going to

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just simply be here to set up
the bread and the wine to open

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the door to mow.
The lawn to do, simple

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logistical activities that are
part of our shared purpose.

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This is not meant to point
figures.

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As nearly as much as just, to be
honest and thinking about where

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we are right now as a group of
people who care about the Bible.

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Who believe that God will change
this world and we have to

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remember how to change
ourselves.

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In the process.
And I also think, Well, we Face

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these issues and they’ve created
new challenges for us.

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We also have to remember our own
Ecclesia has changed ways that

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we could not have anticipated
over the last few years.

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In fact, the summer of 2019 and
going into the fall, we suffered

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some profound losses of our
members and we had during the

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pandemic period, we’re family
members long time standing

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pillars of faith have fallen
asleep.

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If you can is just change the
composition of our occlusion

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again, I don’t believe you know,
some of this is natural but it’s

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all happened together over a
relatively short period of time

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and we have been adjusting and
we need to continue to adjust.

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To taking.
This into account.

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I ask you again, if we are
tired, we are bit weary.

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How do we combat, how do we
change?

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Appreciate skip read Revelation
3.

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And in the new King James
version that I use.

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It talks about in the early
versus of the Dead church about

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watching.
But in his translation said wake

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up And I think it’s relevant for
us to honestly, confront these

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issues and commit ourselves to
dealing with them changing and

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putting in the time, and the
effort to help each other and

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build this Ecclesia up.
I thought what is an example of

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in scripture of someone who is
weary who is tired, who is

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drained?
And how did they deal with it?

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And how did God work with them?
And it’s for that reason that we

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also read First Kings chapter 19
and I hope you were attentive as

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brother.
Dan was reading that chapter.

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Let’s go to the Old Testament
and look at First Kings 19 for a

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little context.
Remember the the Prophet Elijah?

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Served as God’s voice in the
northern kingdom.

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And the Northern Kingdom of
Israel, this time was was

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controlled by Queen Jezebel and
King Ahab and they were they

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were not only Pagan but they
were extremely selfish.

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Individuals and in the 18th
chapter of First Kings.

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We would have read and probably
familiar to many of us.

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But dramatic confrontation that
Elijah had with the prophets of

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Baal.
In which God through Elijah

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brought a dramatic turn of
events in which fire came down

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from heaven, and consume those
profits.

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Hopefully, proving to those who
were witnesses.

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That there was only one true
God.

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But the response of the king and
the queen was to seek Elijah’s

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life. so rather than getting a
reward or some type of due

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respect, Elijah goes from this
great moment of Triumph to

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literally running for his life.
Let’s just review a few of these

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verses here in First Kings 19,
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and Ahab told Jezebel all that
Elijah had done also, how he had

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executed all the prophets with
the sword, then Jezebel sent a

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messenger to Elijah saying, so
let the gods do to me and more.

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Also, if I do not make your life
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By tomorrow, about this time to
get, he gets word that he is now

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essentially Public Enemy.
Number One, In Israel and that

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the authorities will be seeking
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And when he saw that, when he
learned this information, he

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arose and ran for his life and
went to Beersheba, which belongs

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to Judah and left.
His servant.

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There, this is not an
exaggeration that he ran for his

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life.
He moved with haste to the South

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Even left the northern kingdom,
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And as we read and the Chat, 19
chapter, he continued further

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south verse 4, but he himself
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Wilderness and came and sat down
under a broom tree or a juniper

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tree.
He pray that he might die and

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said it is enough now O Lord
take my life for.

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I am no better than my father’s.
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such, it was just he’s running
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He had, you know, he must have
invested a great deal of emotion

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and effort into this
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And now he is also physically
moving as quickly as he possibly

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can to stay ahead of those who
were seeking his life and he

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essentially and burns himself to
the Lord saying just end this

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right now.
I feel as though I have given

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everything that I can give.
Those sweet continue reading and

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see the picture of what happens
here.

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Then as he lay and slept under a
broom tree, suddenly an angel

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touched him and said to him,
arise and eat.

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Then he looked and thereby his
head was a cake baked on coals

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in a jar of water so he ate and
drank and laid down again and

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the angel of the Lord came back
the second time and touched him

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and said, arise and eat, because
the journey is too great for

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you.
Elijah literally needs to

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recharge he rests and I think
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There’s nothing in the record
here that says it was

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inappropriate to do.
Some fact Angel comes to help

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him and feed him twice it’s as
if the Lord recognizes that

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Elijah was at his breaking
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So as you need to take this
time, you need to rest and I

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need to support you.
Now, a logic continues his

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journey and he says that he
traveled for 40 days and 40

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nights to Horeb the Mountain of
God likely.

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Many many commentators believe
may have had it to Mount Sinai

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down the southern Sinai
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So probably he journeyed.
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miles over that month or so on
his own especially those first

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few days can moving as quickly
as he could perhaps.

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Trying to not leave a trail
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That could be followed.
But yet he still had to lie down

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and rest.
And once again, I think is

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notable for our lesson today.
Looking at ourselves how we

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might feel emotionally and
physically, drained, God said

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that taking the time to rest is
reasonable.

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It’s appropriate.
But also what we can note is the

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time of rest isn’t forever. it’s
one thing to pause, it’s another

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thing to stop, it’s another
thing to give up, And we as we

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read again, I think Elijah’s
fatigue was more than just

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physical will read verse 10 is
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If you’re in response to the
Lord saying what are you doing

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here Elijah?
So in essence, the Lord is

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saying to Elijah says it twice
like what do you want Elijah

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what do you what are you doing
with your life?

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At this time?
A logical response with really

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more of a exasperation He says
verse 10, I have been very

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zealous for the Lord.
God of hosts for the children of

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Israel, forsaken, your Covenant
torn down your altars and killed

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your prophets with the sword.
I alone am left and they seek to

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take my life.
Say, do I have to do everything?

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I actually I killed all the
priests of Baal.

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We did it in a way that everyone
should know about it and yet

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they’re trying to kill me.
Now, we’re doing the right

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thing.
I’m the only one here.

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And that frustration comes out
the Lord tells him to continue

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down south continue to the
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And will read again, picking up
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Then he said this is the Lord
speaking go out and and first

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game perhaps communicated by one
of these angels that were

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helping him.
But he is instructed to go out

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and stand on the mountain before
the Lord and behold the Lord

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passed by, and a great and
strong wind tore into the

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mountains and broke the rocks
and pieces before the Lord, but

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the Lord was not in the Wind.
And after the wind an earthquake

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but the Lord was not in the
earthquake and after the

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earthquake, a fire, but the Lord
was not in the fire.

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And after the fire, a still
small voice, This is again a

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very dramatic description of
something that may be familiar

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to most of us.
The Lord presents himself to

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Elijah.
He does it through the power of

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nature.
Something that is very common

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through scriptures, very common
in the prophets.

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The Lord does not convey his
message.

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Through a storm.
He does not convey it through an

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earthquake.
In the common English

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translations are still Small
Voice, it means.

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After this drama, he’s going to
talk to Elijah in a whisper.

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And it in a very soft tone.
But just tell him the truth.

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Verse 13.
So it was when Elijah heard.

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He wrapped his face in the
mantle and went out and stood in

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the entrance of the cave and
suddenly a voice came to him and

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said, what are you doing here?
A large again the Lord speaks to

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him as in understanding tone.
Ask him.

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Look at your life.
What are you doing with it?

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What is it that you need?
What is it that you want next?

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Elijah again, expresses his
frustrations in the 14th verse.

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I have been very zealous for the
Lord, God of hosts because the

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children of Israel have
forsaken, your Covenant torn

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down your altars and killed your
prophets with the sword.

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I alone and left they seek to
take my life.

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This time the Lord speaks to him
in more detail.

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And essentially what the Lord
says to him is Elijah, You know

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what?
You need to go back to being a

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prophet.
You need to go back to the

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mission that I have given you.
Since you were a young man,

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you’re going to go back and
you’re going to anoint the next

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king of Syria, you’re going to
anoint the next king of Israel.

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They’re going to fulfill my
purpose.

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You’re going to find a man named
Elijah, who you will Mentor, who

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will take up your role and you
know what?

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Elijah, there are people who
still care about me?

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there are 7,000 people in the
northern kingdom that have not

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bowed down to Baal who have not
corrupted their own lives and

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beliefs He says, I understand
that you were tired, but now

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it’s time to go back to work.
Brothers and sisters and

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friends.
I suggest to you that for our

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Ecclesia is been appropriate to
go through this this period of

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of changes and uncertainty.
But it’s time to start doing

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more.
This is the still Small Voice

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that not my voice but the word
of God.

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So if you’re home and you’re
listening, if you’re here and

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you haven’t been here
consistently We need you.

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And I suggest that you need us.
This is something that we all

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need to wake up to.
We all need to be emotionally,

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as well, as physically invested
in our activities and in our

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support of one another, in the
examples that we can share with

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each other.
This is the time that we had a

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pause We’ll continue to learn
and grow, not, everything’s

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going to be perfect.
But I ask you to think about.

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Can we move past that a year
from now we’re no longer tired.

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Maybe we have a different
problem.

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But hopefully we’ve evidenced
our faith and we persevered and

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we’re working through whatever
challenges that we can

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anticipate right now but it’s no
longer a matter of being worn

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out.
And frayed emotionally or

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physically because we’ve been
working together to become

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stronger.
And if there are someone who

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isn’t here a brother or sister
that you communicate with

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regularly someone in your family
who we know is not been

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consistent in their activity and
their support let them know that

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you asked them to change.
Okay.

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It’s not a matter of being
judgmental.

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It’s a matter of appealing that
we need them.

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Have the right attitude about
it.

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It’s not a matter of pointing
fingers blaming someone but the

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fact is we’re too small
community were too small group

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of Believers not to have
everyone contributing and

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sometimes your contribution is
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And feeling that like the person
who is organizing the activity

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has support or talking to them
after the activities over and

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talking to one another, just
having those personal

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relationships that we need to
bolster our faith.

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For sometimes we we can find
ourselves.

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Being undisciplined and how we
lead our lives and make our

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commitments, and the New
Testament, the Apostle Paul

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speaks to the first century
Believers about these issues

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because they had the same
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If you would, we’ll look at a
few more passages in the New

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Testament.
Look at second Thessalonians,

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the third chapter Towards the
end of Paul’s letter to the

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church in thessalonica speaks
about some warnings about

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essentially pulling your own
weight being responsible for

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yourself.
But he also does it in a way

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that puts it in the context.
This right?

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Spirit of how we help each other
second Thessalonians success

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alone.
Ian’s pick up reading at the

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11th verse of chapter 3, But we
hear that there are some who

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walk among you in a disorderly.
Manner, disorderly is New, King

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James, some other to Modern
translations, that use the where

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undisciplined, which I actually
like better discipline is about

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consistency.
It’s about commitment.

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So some are undisciplined not
working at all but are

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busybodies.
So they in other words, they’re

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not contributing the way they
could.

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And instead, though they point
fingers and they have their own

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opinions, Now those were such we
command and exhort, we encourage

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through our Lord, Jesus Christ
that they work in quietness and

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eat their own bread.
But as for you Brethren, do not

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grow weary in doing good.
And if anyone does not obey our

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words in this epistle, note that
person and do not keep company

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with him, that he may be ashamed
yet, do not count them as an

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enemy.
But admonish him as a brother

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Paul sensually say for those who
are not pulling their own weight

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who are not controlling the way,
they should recognize it but

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don’t treat them like as an
outsider.

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Work with them, encourage them,
ask them to, to help.

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I mean it’s really important
that that attitude is conveyed.

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It’s it’s not enough to point
out the problem.

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It’s to work in the right Spirit
to help improve the situation.

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Again, we have this balance that
we must strive for in our

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Ecclesia between individual
effort and shared purpose.

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Go to Galatians, the sixth
chapter Galatians chapter 6 is

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very good chapter that addresses
this topic and sometimes it can

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be confusing if you read it.
Just casually talks about

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bearing and sharing a burden.
Essentially it says that each

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person is responsible for
themselves, but at the same

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time, when you recognize someone
needs help be ready to act to

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help them.
And as the Apostle continues to

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write in Galatians, the sick
chapter will pick up reading At

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the 7th verse.
Do not be deceived.

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God is Not mocked for whatever a
man sows.

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He will also reap.
So again this is part of that

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that bounce were the individual.
So for those of you who need to

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wake up and do more, what you’re
going to get from your activity,

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great benefit.
Don’t always ask what is the

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Achilles are going to do for me?
But ask what you can do for the

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Ecclesia.
What can you do to help other

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people?
For He Who sows to his flesh,

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the will of Flesh reap
corruption, but he who sows to

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the spirit will, the of the
spirit reap everlasting life,

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kid, don’t don’t lose sight of
why we’re here.

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And what we’re trying to trying
to support each other is on

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that.
Road towards being part of God’s

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purpose towards eternal life.
And let us not grow weary while

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doing good for in due season, we
shall reap.

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If we do not lose heart, okay,
just Don’t give up today.

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Now, I heard, I heard a speaker,
he was actually speaking from

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experience in the military but
he talks about don’t give up

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today.
Give up tomorrow.

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It just always delaying like
kind of like the that that

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mental you know you know,
challenge that you have a

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feeling the intensity of the
moment push through it now and

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you almost always find
opportunity to regroup and then

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do the same thing tomorrow.
Don’t give up.

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Don’t get in to that fatigue.
Work hard.

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God will bless us, therefore
verse 10 as we have opportunity,

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let us do good to all especially
to those who are of the

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household of faith.
In our responsibilities, don’t

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end, close the door here on a
Sunday.

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We’re trying to have a
consistent character that

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everyone around us whether we
where we work, where we live,

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we’ll see that.
But the occlusal family is a

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point of emphasis because we are
here because due to this shared

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belief and this purpose, it is a
motivation that we don’t share

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with everyone that we come in
contact with.

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So all the more reason to
contribute here to support one

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another here.
So we begin to draw our thoughts

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towards a conclusion like to
share the passage in Hebrews.

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The 12th chapter that also
connects these ideas with the

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example of Jesus Christ.
If you would turn to Hebrews

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chapter 12, Hebrews 12.
Contacts continues.

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The authors discussion of how we
use our faith in the eleventh

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chapter has This list of
examples, men and women who in

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some instances did extraordinary
things because they had this

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belief that God would help them.
Therefore first one, we also

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since we are surrounded by so
great.

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A cloud of witnesses in other
words because we have these

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examples to draw from them, Use
them to inform the decisions

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that you make let us lay aside
every weight and the sin, which

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so easily ensnares us.
Let us run with endurance, the

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race that is set before us.
So let don’t let this challenge

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this problem.
Hold you back.

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Hey, is it the words of
scripture and talk?

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Sometimes about burdens and
waits?

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It’s meant to have this physical
description, take it off your

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shoulder and put it to the side
so that you can more freely be

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active.
And doing the Lord’s work and

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with endurance with perseverance
with an attitude that I am going

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to continue.
No matter what live your life

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looking in verse 2 unto Jesus,
the author and finisher of our

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faith.
Who for the joy that was set

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before him.
Endured the cross despising, the

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shame and has sat down at the
right hand of the Throne of God,

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for the sake of time, I did not
I was looking the gospel record

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at the times of Jesus was weary
and tired, but he continued to

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teach.
He continued to help

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particularly in his last hours
when he felt that his closest

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friends were giving in to their
physical.

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Fatigue and not being there to
support him.

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Verse 3 of Hebrews 12 for
consider him meaning Jesus, who

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endured such hostility from
Sinners against himself, lest

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you become weary and discouraged
in your souls.

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The ultimate example is Jesus
Christ.

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Consider how we can work past,
whatever sense of being

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exhausted, that we are the
physical, the emotional,

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accumulation of the little
things that seem to wear us down

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in there.
As I referenced earlier with the

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example of Elijah, this is our
wake-up call.

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So seldom in life.
Is there one dramatic moment?

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There’s not the bolt of
lightning that is going to hit

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you to say, you need to do this
now.

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It’s almost always.
Information that you already are

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aware of and you just need to
make the choice to do more.

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And if we do that, God will
support us.

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You will support us
individually.

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You will support us as an
Ecclesia conclusion like to read

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inspirational passage from the
book of Isaiah.

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Another portion of the Old
Testament that I would hope is

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familiar to many of us, Isaiah
40.

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Reading from the 28th first.
The prophet, extols the power of

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the Lord by saying, have you not
known, have you not heard the

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Everlasting?
God, the Lord, the creator of

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the earth.
Neither faint, snores.

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Weary, there is no searching of
his understanding, he gives

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power to the weak and to those
who have no might he increases

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strength, even the youth shall
fail, shall faint and be weary

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and the young men shall utterly
fall.

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But those who wait on the Lord
shall renew their strength.

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They shall Mount up with wings
like eagles.

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They shall run and not be weary.
They shall walk and not faint.

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