248: Matthew Blewett – Exhortation: Are We Accepting God’s Call?

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This is brother Brian.
This week’s talk is an

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excitation by brother, Matthew,
blew it.

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That was given way back in 2001
at the Idlewild Bible camp and

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the title of the excitation is
are we accepting God’s call?

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The premise is that as you try
to call someone with something

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urgent, the phone rings and
rings and goes to voicemail.

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But you had no desire to leave a
message and then wait for them

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to get around to calling you
back.

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You were calling was something
incredibly important and you

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needed a response, not an
answering machine.

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Because you might not call
again.

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Brother, Matthew uses this
analogy to consider how God

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looks for us to be eager to
receive his message and to act

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on it in our lives and not to
find better things to do first

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before we get around to
answering the call.

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That’s been set before us.
There are a number of great

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scriptural, metaphors, that he
dies in such as the tale of the

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two who wish to follow Jesus.
But then give excuses for why

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they couldn’t follow
immediately.

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And on the whole in our
generation of instant messaging

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in all forms, I still found it
to be a punch in the gut

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relating, how easy it is.
Sometimes when you see a call

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come through on your phone to
just brush it off because you’re

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not in the mood, or maybe at
least you’re not in the mood,

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for that person who is calling
and whatever they might want.

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So it was a very humbling
reminder.

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For us to consider how available
or not, we make ourselves for

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the things of the truth.
I found it to be a very

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memorable and impactful message.
So as always, we hope this

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strengthens your faith and
brightens your day brother,

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Matthew blew it, are you
answering God’s call my dear

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brothers and sisters?
I’d like to take this

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opportunity first up to express.
My thanks for the privilege that

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my wife and our family of head
of sharing this wonderful week

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of fellowship.
With all of you, it’s been an

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incredible time for us to enjoy
Fellowship so far from home.

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And indeed we have been
impressed by the friendships

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that we have gained and the
wonderful studies around your

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the word and it has been a
wonderful privilege for us and

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we’ll take home.
Very happy memories. we really

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believe that you have a very
special family over here, and it

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gives us much encouragement as
we return to Africa, Hello.

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This is Matthew speaking.
I’m sorry, I’m not available

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right now but if you leave a
message, I’ll get back to you as

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soon as possible.
I wonder how many of you get

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these kind of messages and with
the introduction of cell phones,

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more and more people, having
cell phones.

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We tend to get messages more and
more I don’t know if you’re the

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same as me but often it’s quite
frustrating to get a message

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especially if you need to talk
to someone urgently and you need

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to get some information across
to them.

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I’m not available right now.
We’re often not available for

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others.
More importantly, brother and

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sisters were often not available
for God, as he makes his core to

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us.
How many times does he here?

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I’m sorry, but I’m not available
right now.

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God requires you see our
availability, both for him.

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And for our neighbors, all of
the time being available as one

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of the cornerstones of Christian
discipleship.

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And as we have been encouraged
during this week, And as we have

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been filled up spiritually, and
for most of us, we leave this

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place enthusiastic and
passionate about the word of God

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as we enter the mundane routine
of life.

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Will we make ourselves available
for God?

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And for our fellow disciples?
Will we use the encouragement

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and the refreshing that we have
received during this week?

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To serve the Brotherhood and the
community at large.

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You see Jesus requires our
availability just as he required

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the availability of his
disciples.

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We read this in Mark chapter 3
and verse 13.

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And Jesus went up into a
mountain and called unto him

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whom he would, and they came
unto him and he ordained twelve,

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that they should be with them
that he might send them forth to

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preach and it sounds so easy.
As we read those words and they

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came unto Him.
What does that mean?

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It means that meant that when
Jesus called them they were

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available, there were no
excuses.

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There was no hesitation on their
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They made themselves available.
It was an unconditional

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availability and that’s used
gospel tells us that there’s

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availability came at a cost and
we know this Jesus said to them

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follow me and I will make you
Fishers of Men and they

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straightway left their Nets and
followed him.

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And going on from thence.
He saw two other Brethren James

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Zebedee and John his brother and
a ship was already, their father

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mending, the Nets, and he called
them.

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And immediately, they left the
ship and their father and they

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followed him and the message of
the example.

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The 12 is clear.
Here are men that were prepared

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to give up many things that they
had plans for you.

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Can imagine Peter and Andrew had
a great business going, it would

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seem they have the own boat.
They had the prospects maybe of

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getting another boat and and
maybe a good fishing season was

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coming and they discuss what
they would do and the next

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vacation.
Ocean that they were playing but

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all of this had to be put aside
when the pork came from Jesus

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and they made themselves
available and for James and John

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it went even further because the
record said and they lift their

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father, you can imagine the
excuses, we could have put

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together their the father was
becoming old.

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He needed his sons to help them
in the business.

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And yet, even in this situation
they made themselves available.

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They came unto him, a simple
little phrase with so much power

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behind it.
But not all of the disciples

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that Jesus called were
available.

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And we can learn from those who
were available and from those

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who were unavailable come with
me to Luke chapter 9 and we

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learn about two disciples who
were unavailable for the Lord,

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Jesus Christ.
You see?

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God is not interested in getting
our message box.

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He has no time for our message
box.

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As soon as possible is not good
enough for God, it’s about now,

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it’s about being available right
now.

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At verse 59, Jesus said unto
another follow me, but he said,

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Lord, suffer me first to go and
bury.

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My father, Jesus said unto him,
let the dead bury their dead,

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but go there and preach the
kingdom of God.

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And when we read those words,
they seem harsh at first

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reading, Here was a man who
wanted to bury his father.

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It doesn’t seem like an an
unreasonable request to delay

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discipleship.
And, and Jesus uses two

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examples, your and both
examples, he gives probably the

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best excuses.
We could think of for why we

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should not be available and he
discounts them both and I think,

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although we can explain away
what was being mean to you?

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I think that’s the power of the
message that there is nothing in

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this world that should make us
unavailable for his core.

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We ever, we may be in our lives.
If we understand that call, we

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should be making ourselves
available for it.

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Jesus was warning here, I
believe of an attitude, rather

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than the exact example that was
being given, but an attitude

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that sought for reasons, for why
a man would not be willing to

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follow Jesus and this man and
Luke chapter 9, and verse 59, I

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call him the procrastinator and
we can see it as he answers

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Jesus.
And said, Jesus said to him,

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follow me.
And he said, Lord suffer me

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first to go and bury my father,
and that’s the key word that

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looks bringing to our attention.
The word first, just, Jesus had

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said to them in Matthew 6, those
words we know, so well, but

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seek, ye first, the kingdom of
heaven and his righteous of God,

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and his righteousness, and all
these things shall be added unto

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you.
Jesus said, if you want to be

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pleasing to God in all that you
do, make sure that he’s first in

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your life.
Make sure that the kingdom and

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the girls concerning the kingdom
butter most in your life.

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This is the calling of the
Gospel, the calling to place God

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first, and this man was not
going to be available because he

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would always be finding
something else to do first and

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we fall into their trap.
Don’t we always finding

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something else to do first
before we will give God our most

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availability perhaps we want to
get married first.

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Perhaps we would have children
first perhaps we want to finish

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college first, perhaps, we want
to make sure we’re established

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in our career first.
Perhaps it is until we get

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retired and we have more time
and then we will be available.

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Here was a man who had other
things to do first and when all

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things are considered, when it’s
God, coming out a list of things

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that are important to us.
How does he fear against our

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work?
Our family, holidays and

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entertainment, our TV, our cars
a houses and when it comes

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second to anyone of this list of
things, we become unavailable

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for him.
That’s the message of the first

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disciple, the procrastinator,
the man, who wanted more time.

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And then the next one straight
off to words in Luke chapter 9,

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we read this.
And another also said unto the

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Lord, I will follow you, but let
me first go but then farewell

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with your at home at my house
and Jesus said unto him.

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No man having put his hand to
the plow and looking back is fit

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for the kingdom of God.
Here’s another man, very

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interesting, a man who wanted to
be available Said, Lord.

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Let me, let me join you.
Let me make myself available and

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Jesus saw in this man, a
different type of problem for

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this man, says, let me first go
and say goodbye to them.

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We were at home and it seemed to
me that he had a whole bunch of

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friendship, still remaining at
home that were important to him.

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And the difficulty that I
believe this man was facing was

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breaking away from his old way
of life.

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And it seems to me that he was
suggesting to Jesus.

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Can you see this that?
Jesus should give him permission

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to do this very same thing.
That Elijah had given me Lusha

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permission to do you remember
when he larger cord, Elijah?

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And Elisha said, well, I just
need to go and say goodbye to my

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family.
It’s recorded in First Kings,

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19.
And when we go back to First

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Kings, 19, we noticed something.
Interesting, verse 19, our first

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Kings chapter 19, Let me read in
verse 19.

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So Elijah departed from there
and he found Elisha the son of

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shaphat who was playing with 12
yoke of oxen before him.

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And he with the 12 and he, with
the 12th and Elijah passed by

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him and crossed his mental upon
it.

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And Elisha Let The Oxen and ran
after it.

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Arjun said, let me, I pray
because my father and my mother

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and then I will follow thee.
And he said unto them, go back

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again, for what have I done to
you?

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And he returned back from Elijah
and took a yoke of oxen and slew

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them, and boiled their flesh,
with the instruments of The Oxen

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and gave unto the people and
they did eat.

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Then he arose and went after you
larger and ministered unto him.

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So perhaps this disciple and
speaking to Jesus said Elijah

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was able to go and say goodbye
to his family and that’s what I

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want to do.
But notice the words of Jesus,

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no, man having put his hand to
the plow and turning back is fit

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for the kingdom of God.
What do you think he was saying?

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Well I guess there’s two
understandings of that one.

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Is that once you’re plowing, you
can only look forward, you can’t

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look back.
Otherwise, you won’t do a good

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job.
Maybe he was saying something

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else in allusion to the
illustration of Elijah, although

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Elijah returned to say goodbye
to his family, his intent, his

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attitude was clear, why he put
his And to the plan, he

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destroyed the instruments.
It was all the way of life.

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We read it.
There we read that, he slew The

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Oxen, and he boiled their fish,
with the instruments of The

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Oxen.
The old way of life, for Elijah

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the farmer, it was burnt, it was
gone like the Nets.

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They were given away.
It was no way that Elisha could

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return and this is the message.
I believe.

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Jesus was leaving for the sick
and disciple.

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If you want to follow me, you’ve
got to put your hand to your old

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way of life.
You’ve got to destroy it, you’ve

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got to leave it behind.
You can’t bring.

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NG it with you.
I call this man the fence

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sitter.
And he leaves a message for many

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of us in this room.
Both baptized and unbaptized who

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hear the message the call of the
Gospel of Jesus saying, are you

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available and perhaps, our
problem is we can’t leave behind

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the old way of life.
You see, Jesus himself, rather

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poor said thou, therefore endure
hardness as a good soldier of

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Jesus Christ.
No man.

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That Wars entangles himself with
the Affairs of this life that he

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may, please him, who has chosen
him to be a soldier.

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You can’t serve Jesus and still
be entangled with the Affairs of

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this life.
You have to break loose from it.

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That’s the only way you can,
make sure your shirt yourself

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available.
How many of us find ourselves

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unavailable for God?
Because we’re trying to hold on

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to our old way of laugh.
We’re trying to play the two

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masters game and it’s a
fruitless guy because both

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Masters need a exclusive
attention.

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And Jesus said you cannot serve
God and riches.

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You cannot do it.
You cannot play the two masters

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game.
If we’re looking back and pining

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after our old way of life, we
will not be available when the

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master course.
In that day, he would shall be

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upon the Housetop and his stuff
in the house.

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Let him not come down to take it
away and he that is in the field

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that I’m likewise not return
back.

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Remember?
Lot’s wife.

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A perfect example of a fence
sitter.

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Someone who wanted to be
available for God.

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Wanted to leave the city of
Sodom yet did not want to leave

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the old way of life behind,
remember, that’s why.

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So how available are we have
available?

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Have we been how many of us have
been available to support our

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Sunday?
Witness efforts over the past

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few weeks, how many of us have
been available to write the

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chords for the sick?
And those in isolation over this

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past week how many of us were
available to seek out the many

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with Low Spirits said, this
Bible can during this week, how

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many of us were available for
the many duties required during

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the announcements during this
week?

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How many of us were available
for those who called out for

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help during this week?
And so, the list can go on of

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the reasons for why are we
should be available or were we

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leaving messages?
You see?

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The call is not for someone
else, it’s for you, and when you

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hear the court, it’s no good.
Saying when someone else will do

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it, someone else is better
qualified.

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Someone else can do it this time
because are normally always do

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it.
He’s asking that you be

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available Available.
Do you remember the message he

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gave to Peter when Peter said,
what of this disciple?

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Jesus says, don’t be concerned
of him.

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Follow thou me.
The call is for you now is the

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time don’t procrastinate, don’t
sit on the fence.

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Now is the time for any words
that need to be said to

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encourage your brother, or your
sister now is the time to put

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your hand to preaching work.
If the call is for you now now

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is the time for Action.
Always remember this piece of

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prose that I heard a few years
back that speaks of the

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importance of grabbing the
opportunity of the present.

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It’s a letter that was written
from a lady to her husband, who

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had been at War.
Do you remember the time?

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I stood a scream, all over your
new jacket?

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I thought you would shout at me
and be angry but you never did.

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And at the time, I told you that
the dress was casual and

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everyone else came dressed and
colorant are, I thought you

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would stop talking to me, but
you never did.

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And when I left my best dress at
home, and we had to drive back

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three hours, I thought you would
lecture me, but you never did.

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And when I was jealous of you
for no, real reason and stayed

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away, I thought you would leave
me, but you never did now, so

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many things that I thought you
would do, but you never did, but

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you loved me and cared for For
me and always made me feel

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special and so there are so many
things I wanted to tell you.

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I’ve how much I loved you when
you got back but you never did.

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So the message is clear, the
time for opportunity for all of

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us is when we receive the core
and when we have that energy,

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that energy that we spoke of
yesterday, when Solomon said,

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remember your creator in the
days of your youth.

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When the evil days come, not
that time when we have the

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ability to serve God, but God
never leaves messages.

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He’s always ready for a
connection. 24 hours a day. 365

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days a year.
He’s never out of range.

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His service is always.
Available and his rights of

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freedom in a way you are.
And he expects us to be equally

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available for his service,
whether that be worshiping and

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remembering him praying to him,
reading his word preaching his

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message, whether it be serving
those around him.

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But there’s a little twist to
this tale that we would like to

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end with.
This morning, there will come a

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time where every one of us in
this room when God will no

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longer be available and he will
leave a message for those who

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are unavailable for him in
Matthew 25, we read this.

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Then shall the Kingdom of Heaven
be likened unto ten virgins,

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which took their lamps and went
forth to meet the bridegroom.

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Five of them were wise and five
of them were foolish.

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They that were foolish.
Took their lamps and took no.

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Not well with them, but the
wise, took oil in their vessels,

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with their lamps, while the
bridegroom tarried, they all

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slumbered and slept and at
midnight, there was a cry, made

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behold the bridegroom is coming,
go ye out to meet him and all

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the virgins arose and trimmed
their lamps.

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And the foolish said to the
wise, give us a, give us your

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oil for our lamps are going out.
The wise answered saying not.

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So lest there be not enough for
us and for you, but rather go

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and sell and buy for yourselves.
And while they went to buy the

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bridegroom came and they, that
we’re ready, went in with him to

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the marriage and the door was
shut.

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You see the five foolish virgins
were not available when the

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master can they were unavailable
for they had not made themselves

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ready.
And so it was that the door was

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shut and when they returned 70,
the God and Father, who had

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always been available for, them
is unavailable and they leave a

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message, Lord, Lord open unto
us.

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And they receive the message.
I know you not.

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What an awful message to receive
from the master.

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But what if we are about?
What if when he returns, we have

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prepared ourselves.
We have made sure that we were

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available for his worship and
for his service, then we will

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receive no message, but rather
an eternal connection with god.

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Well, Dan you good?
And faithful servant enter into

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the joy of your lord, the
blessing of sharing with Paul

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and Timothy with Jesus and his
disciples with David.

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And the faithful that wonderful
Kingdom that vision of hope that

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Tom of reunions, when families
and friends will be reunited

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when tears shall be, what
completely away the moment, when

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all things will come into one
and God will be all in all.

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And such as the hope that we
leave with this morning as we

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leave, this place believing that
we will be available when the

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Lord and Savior returns to take
the kingdom to himself.

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So finally, now we come to
remember our Lord Jesus Christ.

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And we are brought again to the
foot of the cross.

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Jesus, the man who was always
available the man, who said I’ve

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come to do your Will O God, a
body you have prepared for me.

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and so, as we partake of the
bread and the wine this morning,

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I have no doubt in my mind of
his presence with us.

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I have no doubt that where two
or three are gathered.

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He is there in the midst of
them, he is available and he

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will try to make a connection
with each and every person in

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this room.
Would he get a response?

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Would he get a message?
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