229: Charles Crawford – Exhortation: Fullness of Joy

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This we talk is an excitation by
Brother Charles Crawford.

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That he gave at the Halifax
achalasia in the UK last

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October.
He doesn’t really have a formal

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title But he says right at the
beginning that the main theme is

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the fullness of joy and Charles
does a really great job, kind of

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studying joy and teasing out the
difference between joy and

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happiness and how Joy should be
a permanent attribute.

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A permanent thing that we enjoy
while happiness and sadness by

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Nature, kind of come and go but
we have a hope and a promise

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that should in Install, a
permanent joy in us.

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I thought his delivery in this
education is excellent.

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I’m very succinct, doesn’t feel
like I was stationed with a

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wasted word in it and I really
appreciated the brothers

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thoughtfulness and work in this
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absolutely excellent.
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podcasts, look for pause to
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That’s another really great.
Chris, Duffy and podcast but

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it’s so, here we go with
brother.

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Charles Crawford, the fullness
of joy.

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Good morning, everyone.
It’s a great Community.

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This afternoon, it’s also
particularly nice.

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I feel because of the message
that we have to share this

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morning from clippings because
the overall summary of our

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excitation this morning is to be
full of joy.

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Paul was obsessed with joy.
He was absolutely captivated by

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it so that he crowbarred it
every opportunity into this

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letters will.
We’ll see the first of all and

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period of self-reflection
because I feel that for

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significant part of our Lives,
we spend our time searching for

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the hits of happiness that come
from endorphins and dopamine and

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little tiny chemicals in our
brains.

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That say you’re happy.
Now, these can come from all

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sorts of situations, you can get
these chemicals from exercise,

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nice, nice and healthy.
You can also get these chemicals

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from unhealthy things, for
example, gambling.

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Both of these trigger, the
release of the chemicals that

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make us feel that spike in our
mood, we say you’re happy.

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So Kate social media, very
similar.

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If you get lots of likes to your
post, hit of endorphins, you

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feel happy, and so these things
can be addictive.

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But there are problems with
chasing these hits not least is

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because they are superficial.
They are dependent on

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circumstances.
I’m contingent you.

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Might be used to getting your
hips of chemicals from an

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exercise and pick up the injury.
Not only can do the exercise.

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You Nolan no longer get the
happiness, you’re sad.

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The horse is will always lose
more than they win.

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So you’ll always find that these
bubbles of Happiness pop and end

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in disappointment.
And chasing these hits can lead

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to unhealthy behaviors.
So we get hits of Happiness from

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food and the fatty and sugary
more sugary, the greater the hit

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but if you keep chasing those
hips it needs to be an unhealthy

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and our well-being is wrecked.
So it’s important to recognize

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in ourselves that we all to a
certain degree chase after this

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happiness.
Putting contrast. the joy that

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Paul is effervescent about, Does
not depend on circumstances, and

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you can’t have an unhealthy
level of the joy that grips Paul

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so much.
In the opening of chapter 3,

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which you read together, we read
how Paul is almost apologetic

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about bringing this up so much.
She says, in chapter 3 verse 1,

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finally my brother’s rejoice in
the lord.

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It’s no trouble for me to write
the same things to you again, a

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safeguard to you, so he knows
he’s going on about a lot, it

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doesn’t apologize.
And uses interesting Fame phrase

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which is to say, this is for
your safekeeping and this is the

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power of Joy, it keeps us safe.
The opposite is true that if we

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lose the joy, then we’re at
risk.

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Are at risk from dangerous
things.

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That’s how important it is to be
full of joint.

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Let me give you an analogy just
to try and an image to help

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picture where the two different
sources of happiness and joy

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picture yourself on a Somewhere
and the tide is rolling in

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there’s ever wins.
There’s a lot of waves and they

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come crashing in getting closer
and closer and closer to you on

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the beach.
So you can feel the direction of

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the ocean is coming towards you.
What you’re unaware of is that

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there’s another current in the
ocean a deeper current, which is

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actually going in the exact
opposite direction to the one

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that you’re aware of.
That’s the undercurrent the

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undertow, which goes away from
the shore.

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Runs opposite counter to the
main flow, big Rivers have them

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too, but the point is were only
aware of what’s going on.

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The surface were only aware of
the surface.

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Currents were not aware of
what’s going on deep down.

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So the analogy on to give you is
that Joy comes from a different

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current to happiness and
sadness.

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Happiness and sadness are
affected by the surface

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conditions.
Whether they be choppy waves or

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beautiful Steel Mill Pond with
nice, gentle breeze moves,

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because affected by the tossing
and turning of those surface

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currents where they’re a team
wins or loses and moves,

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affected by these superficial
things.

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But joy comes from the deeper
current a stream of Living Water

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that’s headed in a different.
Direction.

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And it’s much deeper to that
which is going on around us.

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So in some ways, it’s a test of
our spiritual well-being is how

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aware are we of the deep
currents that bring joy and

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conversely?
How much we affected by the

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circus and tossing.
Turning waves in his book,

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surprised by Joy, which is kind
of Memoir of his journey from

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atheism to Christianity.
C.s.

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Lewis writes that Joy must be
sharply, distinguished from

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happy. – our pleasure, I doubt
that whether anyone who has

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tasted Joy or exchange it for
all the pleasure in the world.

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So everything all the happiest
will Pleasures.

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Here, experiences is younger
life as an atheist.

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We’re not in any way comparable
to the Deep Joy.

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He got from his Christian faith.
So what is it?

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That hole is so joyful about
being through all I think there

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are three categories of where A
joy comes from, for the first is

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from his brothers and sisters,
he describes them as His Joy In

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This Crowd.
The second is from his faith,

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the deep love.
He has the gospel, which is

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spreading from place of blanks.
And the third, and this shows

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you how deep we’re talking is
from service, even service that

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brings us to suffering.
So the first joint is the joint

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brothers and sisters.
If you look at the opening of

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chapter 4 verse 1 therefore my
brothers you whom I love you and

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long for my joy and crown that
is how you should stand firm in

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the Lord.
Dear friends.

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This Joy comes from his brothers
and sisters, there’s no doubt.

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That’s the pandan we’ve all been
through has emphasized

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isolation.
It’s made introverts out of

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extroverts.
It’s wrapped up anxiety about

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being in social situations and
contrast to previous National

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crises, which have brought
people together.

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Think, for example, about the
blitz, various, if you like this

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crisis, has blown apart and had
catastrophic consequences that

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we are where we are.
Actually it’s quite a striking

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parallel when you think about it
to Paul himself because this

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letter was written from the
ultimate social isolation goes

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chapter 1.
And 47.

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Well rights, it is right for me
to feel this way about all of

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you.
Since I have you in my heart for

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whether I am in Chains or
defending the one confirming,

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the gospel all of you share in
God’s grace with live as you

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drop down to verse 13.
As a result is become clear

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throughout the whole Palace
guard.

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And to everyone else that I am
in chains for Christ because of

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my chains, most of the brothers,
in the Lord have been encouraged

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to speak the word of God more
courageously and Fearlessly.

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So Paul was locked up the
ultimate social isolation but he

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was still gaining Joy from
mowing the fellowship.

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He has with his brothers and
sisters.

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But he longed to be with them in
person so he has been fantastic.

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I don’t know how we would
survive without it, but it’s not

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the same as face-to-face
Fellowship.

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It doesn’t have the same power
and she’ll always remember that

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when I was learning to be a
dentist and we did.

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We had a clinic where we make
Dentures for all the elderly of

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Manchester and see you.
Make this false teeth.

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Give them to the the Not incur
Wheatley, study back.

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He just suggest that can we
ought to go?

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We’d like to be back into the
just list off.

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You go off you go.
This is gone five six seven

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times, but then the formidable,
dr.

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Jill Hubbs ready.
We’re going to be cuter and she

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would sit down and she would
take the teeth and banging table

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with that either.
She was talking to go.

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Mrs. Jones, these teeth are
these Dentures are not a

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replacement for our teeth are
our placement for no teeth your

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Trying to realign the patients
patients expectations.

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The dentures not replacement for
teeth, but there is a substitute

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and in the same way, Zoom is not
a replacement for Fellowship its

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replacement for no Fellowship.
We so benefited it from it for

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all these years but we don’t
have to make sure we don’t

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forget Halls longing.
If you like to be with his

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brothers and sisters face to
face.

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Being actually physically
present makes it easier to

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properly support each other.
Some of positive influence in

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sugar to give advice to share a
laugh.

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If you scan around all the
conversations that happen when

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we finish this service into
lunch, they’ll be all sorts of

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things.
Discussed spiritual matters,

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practical matters, the joke, all
of this that happens to face to

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face.
And it’s so important.

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The writer to the Hebrews
emphasizes this, if you want

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some quick, look at 10:24.
Let us consider how we may spur

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one, another on toward love and
Good Deeds.

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Let us not give up meeting
together as some are in the

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habit of doing.
Let’s encourage one another and

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all the more as you see the day
approaching.

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By being together, we encourage
each other to love and Good

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Deeds.
We’re all imitators of other

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people to some degree, and if
you see someone else showing

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love and compassion that
inspires you to do the same, but

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if you ever sing it, you’re less
likely to do it.

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So, being together is so
important, the second area where

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Paul games is Joy from what from
the gospels itself in a letter,

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he describes the Believers as
having the same love, and it

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Message was spreading.
Now seems obvious to say it

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stating the apps obvious, but
the gospel is supposed to be

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good news.
Encountering.

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The gospel is supposed to feel
like a blessing, like a lifting

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of burdens the lightness, that
can come from anywhere else,

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something which cannot be
replaced by any other source, a

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relief that only comes from
meeting the grace of God.

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So if ever doesn’t feel like
that, it’s probably our fault.

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As a pictures and lovely picture
that Charles Dickens provides

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and Great Expectations, has this
this minor character called mrs.

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Joe and just a few short lines,
absolutely captures what I’m

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getting at.
Mrs. Joe was a very clean

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housekeeper but she had the
Exquisite art of making her

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cleanliness more uncomfortable
and unacceptable from the dirt

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itself.
Cleanliness is Next to

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Godliness.
And some people do the same by

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their religion.
This is the opposite of the joy

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of the gospel.
And often comes through

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legalistic approaches to faith
in this is the Jesus warns about

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in his ministry.
For example, in, in the woes

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against fire season, Which
chapter 11 talks about, how they

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put heavy legalistic burdens
creating misery for ordinary

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people and the great irony He is
that these teachers, who put

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these burdens on other people
can actually carry themselves.

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So we have two to always
maintain that.

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The gospel is good news.
We read about human brain and

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how it works a little
differently in left side.

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And right side, it’s quite
fascinating, really experiments

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showed that the left side of the
brain.

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Really likes Bulls and the right
side of the brain is really good

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at putting things together.
So there’s the strange

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experiments.
I don’t have a digital could

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activate an actual, a different
part of your brain.

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So if you ask someone to draw a
flower and you inactivate, the

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right side of the brain to the
just using the left side of the

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brain, They would draw if you’d
like a flower by rules Circle,

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petals rounder, okay?
So obviously, if you talk, if

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you said to a computer was a
flower look like it’s a yes,

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circle flow around it.
If you do the opposite, if you

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inactivate the left side and
just allow the right explain to

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work, then you’ll draw a flower
with a stalk and leaves coming

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off it, even though leaves
technique out the flower.

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That’s the big picture and so
there’s advantages to both ways

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of working but a healthy mind
but some both together for the

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rules in the proper context.
Maturing faith is one that never

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lose sight of what we’re
maturing.

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In is love, Philippians chapter
1 verse 9.

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This is my prayer that your love
may abound more and more in

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knowledge and depth of insight.
So that you may be able to

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discern.
CERN what is best and they may

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be pure and blameless until the
day of Christ filled with the

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fruit of righteousness that
comes through Jesus Christ, that

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war in Praise of God.
So I’m much of a nation is to

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grow in love, being able to
discern, how to act in love in

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our world and in our
circumstances.

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So the third and final source of
Paul’s join demonstrates.

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Why this current were talking
about is such a deep current.

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It’s not superficial, it’s not
frivolous.

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Paul’s Joy comes from service
even if that means suffering

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2:17.
He says, even if I am being

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poured out like a drink offering
on the sacrifice, you service

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coming from your faith.
I am glad and rejoice with all

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of you and so you two should be
glad and rejoice with me.

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I’ll say, even though I’m looks
like I’m finished.

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I’m on the way out every away.
If you like, you should be

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joyful with me and I heard you
we’ve not come as a surprise to

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the believes in Philippi that
this is what Paul would do.

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Because when the church in
Philippi was set up in Acts

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chapter 16, if you want to go
there, they saw this attitude in

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action.
That’s chapter 16 there in the

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area of put a pie in there.
They’re doing their thing and

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they came across a very
difficult situation.

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They came across the abuse of a
vulnerable, young girl in First

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16 of Acts 16.
Once when we were going to the

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place of prayer, we were met by
slave girl, who had a Spirit by,

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which she predicts the future.
And she had a great deal of

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money for her owners by fortune
telling.

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So here we go.
Someone being in slavery and

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being abused for the Cold Hard
Cash.

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The situation escalates.
Because Paul, he’ll set of her

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mental illness.
I’m so the owners of this young

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girl, lose the cash cow verse
19.

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It says, when the owners of the
slave girl realized the in that

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their hope of making money was
gone.

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They seized Paul and Silas and
drag them into the marketplace

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to face your authorities.
They brought them before the

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magistrates and said, these men
are Jews and are throwing our

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city into uproar by a Locating
Customs unlawful for Romans to

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accept or practice the crowd
joined in the attack against

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Paul and Silas and magistrates.
Ordered them to be stripped and

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beaten.
After they’ve been severely

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flawed, they were thrown into
prison and the Jailer was

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commanded to guard them.
Carefully upon receiving such

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orders, he put them in the in a
cell and fastened their feet in

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stocks.
So the people of the Philippine

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Judge Philip I had first-hand
Witness.

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What it is to suffer for doing
the right thing to do the right

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thing and beaten and flows to do
the right thing to Apple

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integrity, and be thrown in
jail.

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They have first-hand experience
of that.

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They also would have heard how
or responding to that verse 25,

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about midnight, Paul and Silas
were praying and singing hymns

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to God, and the other prisoners
were listening to them and you

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can imagine that the spread like
wildfire this deep Joy.

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This deep joy that comes from
knowing that you’ve done the

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right thing.
We’ve been working and acting in

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a different currents to the rest
of the world.

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To integrity.
It’s interesting to look at

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different religions and get
different insights.

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If you like us to as to, which I
think I find it Illuminating

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Illuminating for myself.
So this year I’ve been reading

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the teachings of the Buddha and
on the subject of suffering,

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it’s actually quite fascinating
to compare and contrast because

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one of the objectives of the
Buddhism is to be free from

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suffering.
There are four mobled trees

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described in Buddhism, which are
the truth of suffering, the

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truth of the cause of suffering
the truth.

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The end the suffering and the
truth of the path that leads to

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the end of suffering.
So the idea is you get to this

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point where you’re free from
suffering, sounds attractive,

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how do you do it?
The goal is to be free from

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attachments, okay?
And the loss of this which is

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actually quite helpful to think
about how much suffering in the

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world comes from in touch
attachment to land to property

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to power to consumption of
stuff.

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All these Attachments bring
about suffering, they spring

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jealousy arguments and never
never ending sense of

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dissatisfaction with life.
So there’s a lot in this to be

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free from various things is a
very helpful thing, but here’s a

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significant contrast.
Our most significant attachments

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in our life with people, there
are relationships to reduce

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attachments, is actually to
reduce love to be free from

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suffering, is to be free from
Love.

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And so here, the Christian faith
has a stark contrast with what

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is mmm.
We’re actually increase were

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actually encouraged to increase
our attachments to the right

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things to other people.
To enlarge our hearts.

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As the song says, Christ was the
most attached person ever to

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live, not to wealth, not to stay
to us, not to power but to

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people, Paul saw that and he
wants sticks to experience that

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more and more event in chapter
3.

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There’s seven, he says whatever
was to my profit.

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I now consider loss for the sake
of Christ.

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So here he is, discarding
worldly.

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Attachments, what is more?
I consider everything a loss

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compared to the surpassing
greatness of knowing Christ.

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Jesus, my Lord, for which sake,
for whose sake?

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I have lost all things.
I consider them rubbish that I

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may gain Christ.
So there, he’s describing the

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wealth, discarding, the power to
starting the status Discarding

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those attachments.
But look, invest 10.

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I want to know Christ and the
power of his resurrection and

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the fellowship of sharing in his
sufferings, becoming like him in

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his death.
Oh, Lovejoy was to give up his

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life Falls.
Joy was to sacrifice himself for

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Joy was to serve other people,
whatever the consequences he

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was.
Not a man floating on a line,

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low robbed around by the waist
and whatever was happening on

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the surface.
He was a man who dive deeply

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into the ocean and swimming
different currents.

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And that’s where he found joy,
finally.

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If he describes what this Joy is
in 4:4 rejoice.

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In the lord always, I will say
it again.

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Rejoice, let your gentleness be
evident to all the Lord is near,

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do not be anxious about anything
but in everything by prayer and

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petition with Thanksgiving,
present your requests to God and

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the peace of God, which
transcends all understanding

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will guard your hearts and your
minds in Christ.

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Jesus finally, Brothers,
whatever is true.

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Whatever is Noble, whatever is
right, whatever is pure,

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whatever is lovely, whatever is
admirable if anything is

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excellent or praiseworthy, think
about these things.

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So if you’ve learned or
received, or heard from me, or

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seen them, me put into practice
and the God of Peace will be

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