266: Josh Sommerville – Exhortation: Will You be in the Kingdom?

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Welcome to good Chris Selfian
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to.
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this week’s talk.
We’re listening to an

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exhortation this week that was
given by brother Josh Somerville

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a couple months ago.
And the title of his exhortation

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is kind of a provocative
question that he opens his

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exhortation with.
And the title is Will You Be in

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the Kingdom?
And what Brother Josh is looking

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at is sort of what is our kind
of typical kind of gut response

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you might have if somebody was
to come up and ask you that

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question.
And then goes through looking at

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how we should respond to that
question and how we should

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approach it in a way to be a
encouragement to us.

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To allow us to be more like how
Paul was able to speak with

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confidence about where he his
status and what he did in his

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ministry.
I found it to be a really

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encouraging expectation and also
a one that kind of makes you

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relook at things.
Because some of the answers that

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he gives or examples of answers
that he offers, I feel like

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could apply to many people.
In terms of how you feel when

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somebody was to ask you, how
confident or how do you feel

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when you answer the question,
are you going to be in the

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Kingdom so?
I found this to be, like I said,

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a really interesting
exhortation.

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Brother Josh does a really good
job of asking questions that

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kind of get you to think and
kind of do some self

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examination, which I feel is
very applicable for an

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exhortation.
So I hope you’re able to take

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some lessons from this and draw
from it and use it to reflect on

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yourself as you go into the
coming week.

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And it encourages you as much as
I found it to be encouraging

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when I listen to it.
So I will now turn it over to

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Brother Josh Somerville for his
exhortation entitled Will You Be

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in the Kingdom I Want Us to
Start.

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Off today by just commenting on
just how blessed we are to be

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able to be here this morning, to
have this time given to us, to

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kind of gather here around the
word of God and hopefully to be

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reenergized.
By the words of exhortation and

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to be able to share as a family
in the breaking of bread, I

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think we forget sometimes that
we’ve been so generously blessed

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that coming here can sometimes
be taken for granted.

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Or feel like a burden.
So I pray that we never, never

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do that, never take this time or
this place for granted.

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And so to begin today I want to.
Ask all of us here who are

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baptized a question.
Do you think you’re going to be

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in the Kingdom of God?
I’ve asked a couple of our

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older.
More wise members, including my

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father, do you think you’re
going to be in the Kingdom of

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God?
And I want you to answer that

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for yourself.
And there are to me 4 possible

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answers to that question.
Number one is yes, #2 is, no, #3

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is.
I hope so.

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Or some variation of that.
And the 4th one is, I don’t

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know.
And I think if you answer yes,

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that can sound very
presumptuous, can’t it?

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I tend to think if you were to
say that some of us might have

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an objection to that, it’s not
your decision to make, it’s

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God’s.
And we know who you are.

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You know who you are.
You know you’re just a Sinner.

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You’re not worthy.
If you answered no, well then

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what are you doing?
Why are you feeling like the

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answer is no?
Maybe you need to process that

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and have some heavy
conversations with somebody.

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That you trust that can help you
analyze why you think the answer

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is no and come up with some ways
and.

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Strategies to try to change that
answer and if you answered I.

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Hope so.
Well then that’s the, that’s the

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majority answer, right.
I think, I think it’s pretty

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safe to say that we would mostly
say I hope so.

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Because we live our lives
reading the scripture, trying to

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do our best to understand the
word of God and what He’s asking

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us to do, we.
Put our our best foot forward,

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our best foot forward.
But we know that we’re kind of.

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Hopeless failures at it.
And so we try to just do the

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best we can and then take what
we’re given right.

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That’s whatever the Sorry,
that’s wrong, but we’re hopeless

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and we just.
Ask for God’s forgiveness and we

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just run the race the best that
we can.

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And if you answered, I don’t
know, then I think that’s

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probably the second most popular
answer, I would imagine and

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you’re kind of admitting to.
That whether you get into the

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Kingdom or you don’t get into
the Kingdom, you understand that

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the ultimate decision is not
yours to make.

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It’s God’s and you’re kind of
giving all control to him and

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you’ll just take what you’re
given.

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So that was that’s been running
around in my my mind recently

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and then if I answer that then I
think to myself okay.

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Well then the following question
of that is.

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Because the people I ask never
say yes, and that’s

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understandable.
What we say is not.

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I hope so.
I hope so.

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I have faith and so then you
have to ask yourself the

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question.
Or at least I do.

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Okay if you if you think that
the answer to is am I going to

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be in the Kingdom of God?
Is basically a.

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Maybe then.
Are we truly looking forward to

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the coming Kingdom of God?
With any kind of joy.

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Because the only way you can
look forward to the Kingdom of

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God or to the return of Christ
is with anxiety or uncertainty

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and doubt and fear.
Because what you’re saying is, I

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don’t know what’s going to
happen.

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Or or or maybe.
It’s I’ll be in the Kingdom and

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that’s a, that’s a.
Scary place to be.

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And then I start asking myself.
Well, is that how our Heavenly

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Father wants us?
To feel or to behave?

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Is that how he wants us?
To live our lives in in anxiety

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or uncertainty of of our
placement in His Kingdom.

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I think the answer to that is
no, he definitely doesn’t want

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us to to.
Live our lives that way.

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Or to feel that way I mean.
For all of us who have been

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raised reading scripture and and
anyone who’s.

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Studied the word of God.
We all understand that you know

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clearly.
We’re we we come from a place of

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unworthiness, right at the
beginning.

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You know if you just start
reading the Bible from the

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beginning, Genesis chapter
three.

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You read about how Adam and Eve,
You know 8.

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Of the fruit of the tree that
God told him not to, and he

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punishes them, lest Adam put
forth his hand and take.

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Also the tree of life and eat
and live forever.

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And then again in Romans 512.
Wherefore is by one man centered

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sin entered into the world, and
death by sin, and so death

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passed upon all men, for all
have sinned.

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And finally in chapter 623 of
Romans.

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For the wages of sin is death.
Well, it’s very straightforward.

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I got it.
I’m going to die.

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Yes, I’m worthy of death.
Yes, but does that mean I should

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be denying God?
The gift that he wants to give

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me because it’s sometimes feel
like we are.

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And if you feel like we should
not deny this incredible gift

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that we’re given, then I start
to feel like, well, then.

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Where’s the joy?
Where is our joy in what is

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coming?
Where is the joy that we should

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be feeling about this?
Gift that God has so freely

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given us, and you might say,
well, you know.

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I have joy.
I just.

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Don’t show it outwardly.
I keep that way deep down

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inside, like with all my other
feelings, right.

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Or you might think, you know,
listen, Josh, we need to be, we

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need to be humble in our joy.
We don’t want to.

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Express that joy because you
know we’re.

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Serious Bible students.
Or we’re, we’re a conservative

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bunch of people.
Or the answer could be, you

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know, well, we.
We shouldn’t be too joyful

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because, you know, we don’t want
to be.

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Like those other churches that
are.

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Just all happy Clappy and we we
take things very seriously.

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Well, that may or may not.
Be true or or what you’re

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thinking.
But if one of our goals in life.

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Is to be like our Savior Jesus
Christ.

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Well then, what we read in
Hebrews. 12/2 is worth taking a

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look at Looking unto Jesus, the
author and finisher of our.

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Who, for the joy that was set
before him, endured the cross,

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despising the shame, and is set
down at the right hand of the

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throne of God and and preparing
for this exhortation.

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That verse really hit me hard
because there’s two amazing

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things that Christ endured,
right?

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He endured the cross.
So.

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The joy that Jesus saw coming
helped him to endure.

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The cross, and we know he
physically endured it because he

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not only carried that.
Cross but was crucified on that

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cross, physically enduring that
cross.

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But it also means that.
Regardless of the opposition he

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endured, he endured.
The cross of society, their

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disbelief, their hatred, the way
they treated him, he was not

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going to change.
He did not surrender his

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opposition.
He endured.

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That that figurative cross that
he had to bear.

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And he also despised the shame.
Another amazing little phrase.

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He saw the future.
He saw the joy of the reward,

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and it was greater than the
shame.

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That he was put through in his
life and what’s is awesome is

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that we’re.
He despised that shame.

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He hated it.
That’s how we would want to

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think that, right?
He hated that shame, but it also

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means.
He he chose to disregard that

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shame.
Disregard the shame and the.

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Disgrace for the joy that was to
come, and so.

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We too, brothers and sisters,
are to be looking forward.

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With joy for that coming
Kingdom.

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Just as Christ did, because
those of us who have been

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baptized have put our hands on
the plow.

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Right.
We need to be focused and

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looking.
Forward of what is to come and

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to do.
It with joy that means.

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That means.
Joy at work, Colossians 323 and

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whatever.
Whatsoever you do, do it

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heartily, as to the Lord, and
not unto men.

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We should have joy with our
bodies.

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Psalm 13914.
I will praise thee, I will.

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I will give you thanks right?
For I am fearfully and

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wonderfully made.
Marvelous are they works, and

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that my soul knoweth right.
Well, we should have joy in our

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trials.
Maybe that’s one of the hardest

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ones we have to endure, but
there’s there needs to be joy in

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that.
Matthew 510 Blessed.

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Are those who are persecuted for
righteousness.

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Sake for theirs is the Kingdom
of God, and in James one versus

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2 through 4 my brother and
counted all joy.

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When you fall into divers
temptations, knowing this, that

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the trying of your faith work
with patience, but let patients

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have her perfect.
Work that you may be perfect and

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entire wanting nothing.
We should have joy in our

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families.
Exodus 20, verse 12.

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Honor your father and mother,
that your days may be long in

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the land that the Lord your God
is giving you, and finally, joy

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in the coming of God’s Kingdom.
Ephesians 28.

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For by grace are ye saved
through faith, and that not of

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yourselves.
It is the gift of God, and then

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to continue in Roman 623 for the
wages of sin as death, and we

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know the ending to that, but.
The gift of God is eternal life

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through Jesus.
Christ our Lord and picture this

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scenario.
It’s a conversation that you and

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God are having across the table,
and God hands you a.

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Beautifully wrapped box.
I mean, this thing is complete

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with bow and ribbon and a little
card with your name on it.

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And what do you do with the
present?

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You have to shake it, right?
So you neatly shake it and you

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don’t hear anything because, I
mean, you don’t hear anything,

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which means it’s not Legos,
right?

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And the other thing is it’s very
light.

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So it’s not a book.
It’s not anything heavy.

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But now you’re starting to hope
it’s not a shirt, because

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sometimes mom would buy you
shirts for your birthday, and

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that’s not what you thought was
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So you finally opened the box
and what’s inside?

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It’s a ticket, a single Red
Admit 1 ticket, and it has your

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name on it.
They say, oh great, what’s this?

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And he says that’s my gift.
Of grace to you.

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It is admission into my Kingdom
that.

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Is going to be set up here for
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And it’s coming soon.
And you go, oh man, God, this

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is, this is.
I don’t deserve it, he says.

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I know, but I’m.
I’m not worthy.

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Oh, so you don’t want it?
No, no, I want it.

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I mean, I do.
I want it.

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But I’m pretty sure you’re going
to take.

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It back later because if you
really knew me, you wouldn’t be

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giving it to me and God would
respond.

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You think I don’t know that?
I mean, are you questioning me?

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Yeah, but what if I lose it?
Or even worse, what if I throw

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it away and I disregard it?
You can’t lose it, and even if.

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You were to throw it away.
You can always find it again.

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Well, what did I do to deserve
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Nothing.
Well, what do I have to do?

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Because you gave it to me.
Oh, well, let me explain.

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Matthew 11.
Come on to me.

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All ye that labor, and are heavy
laden, and I’ll give you rest.

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Take my yoke upon you, and learn
of me, for I am meek and lowly

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in heart, and you shall find.
Rest for your soul, for my yoke

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is easy and my burden.
Is light and in Galatians 3.

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For ye are all children of God
by faith in Christ Jesus for as

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many.
Of you as have been baptized.

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Into Christ.
Have put on Christ First

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Corinthians, chapter 6.
No ye not that the unrighteous

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shall not inherit the Kingdom of
God.

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Be not deceived, neither
fornicators, nor idolaters, nor

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adulterers, nor feminate, nor
abusers of themselves with

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mankind, nor thieves, nor
covetous, nor drunkards, nor

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revilers, nor extortioners,
shall inherit the Kingdom of God

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and such for some of you.
But you are washed and you are

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sanctified.
But you are justified in the

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name.
Of the Lord Jesus and by the

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Spirit of God and in Matthew
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Six But seek first his Kingdom
and his righteousness, and all

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these things shall be added unto
you and Titus.

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Chapter 2.
For the grace of God that

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bringeth salvation.
Hath appeared to all men,

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teaching us that denying
ungodliness and worldly.

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Lusts, we should live soberly,
righteously and godly in this

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present world looking.
For that blessed hope and the

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glorious appearing of the great
God and our Savior.

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Jesus Christ, who gave himself
for us, that he might redeem us

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from all iniquity and purify
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A peculiar people zealous.
Of good works?

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Well, yeah, but what if I fail
or I sin?

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I’m not perfect.
If we confess our sins, he is

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faithful and just to forgive us
our sins and to cleanse us from

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all on righteousness.
So you see, it is our father’s

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good pleasure to give us the
Kingdom.

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So we should be joyful in that
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How can we think anything other
than that?

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We.
Will be in God’s Kingdom.

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Isn’t that what he wants us to
believe?

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And I think it comes down to
something, our brother Simon

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Decossin said last week in his
prayer.

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And obviously I was.
Hyperaware, because I’ve had

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this thought in my mind.
He said help us to trust you.

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Oh man, doesn’t that say it all?
Do we trust God?

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Do we trust?
Do we really trust the Bible?

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The Bible doesn’t say the
Kingdom of God is earned and if

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you do this or you.
Do that, you’ll be saved.

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It actually says the opposite.
It says you are already saved

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because it says all these things
in past.

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Tense says you’re washed, you’re
sanctified, you’re justified.

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So why don’t we?
Trust it.

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Proverbs 35 Trust.
In the Lord with all thine

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heart, and lean not unto thine
own understanding.

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And that’s what we kind of
sometimes do, right?

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We fall into that understanding
ourselves of the Word of God and

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the.
Scriptures and our failures and

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our shortcomings.
And then we start to think it

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can’t be me, it won’t be me.
So let me ask another question.

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How should we be?
Expressing the joy.

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Well, I’m not going to stand
here and say that we should be

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jumping around, right?
Losing control and breaking into

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a dance and saying all kinds of
crazy things, you know, because

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it’s not necessary and I’m not
promoting that.

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But we could, and we should work
on trying to keep joy.

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On the forefront of our minds.
Keep that right there.

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The joy.
And see how that helps us and

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see how that changes our walk.
You know, it seems like

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everything when you when you’re
actively thinking of something.

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And I’m sure this happens to a
lot of us and.

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And particularly when you’re
writing expectations and you

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have some thought on your mind
for weeks at a time.

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But if you’re actively thinking
about something, it seems that

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everything around you all of a
sudden starts.

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To fall into place and and wow,
that’s coincidentally the same

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of what I’m thinking, right?
Because you’re actively thinking

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about it, so your mind is hyper
aware and focused on those

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thoughts.
And words and the comments that

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people say it.
Just seems like everything else

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reminds you about it and when
and for example like the joy in

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in in our faith and what you
know it, it pops up everywhere.

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There’s Bible verses that let’s
say joy or or have.

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Feelings of joy and positivity.
Conversations.

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How we treat others.
I saw joy in in him.

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Number one that we that we sang
this morning.

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I go, oh, there it is.
There’s joy.

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We have to keep that that.
Feeling or that that topic on

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the forefront of our minds to
to.

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Fight against the struggle of
the daily.

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Grind and what drags us down
into negativity?

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We have to keep joy set before
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Than anything we have now and so
when that driver cuts you off on

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the road we got to have joy
because.

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Well, he didn’t crash into us.
Everything’s everything’s okay,

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not a big deal.
Or when you’re a baby, it just

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won’t stop crying.
Well, let’s have let’s find the

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joy in that.
You know she’s healthy or she’s.

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And they’re not going to be
babies for long, and let’s enjoy

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that.
How about when our bodies are in

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pain?
Well, this, this life is

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temporary.
It’s very short.

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Relatively speaking and there is
a future that we can keep in our

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minds that’s coming that will be
so much better than today.

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What about if you hate your job?
Well, I have joy that I’m

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blessed to be able to go to
work, to do a job.

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To provide for my family.
You know, one of the things that

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I’ll never forget and I like to
share is.

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Something that I was taught by
my mentor teacher when I first

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walked into a classroom and she
changed my life forever when she

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said catch them being good.
Don’t worry about those who are

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misbehaving.
Just compliment the ones that

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are compliment.
Compliment the ones that are

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behaving.
I should say doing what you want

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them to do.
The others will fall into line.

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And I’m telling you, it’s
absolute magic.

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It just changes your mindset.
You’re not trying to put out

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fires, but instead.
You’re just ignoring those and

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complimenting the ones doing the
great job.

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And man, the other ones fall
right into line.

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Don’t worry about the negative
brothers and sisters, Just.

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Dwell in the positive.
Focus on the joy that is set

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before us that has been.
Given to all of us who have.

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Put on Christ Psalm 3321, for
our heart is glad it’s full of

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joy.
In him because we trust.

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In his holy name, Okay.
That’s the pitch.

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I want us to leave here.
And work on that.

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Let’s change our paradigm just a
little.

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Let’s implement more joy.
In our walk, let us let joy.

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Encourage us and empower us to
say yes.

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I will be in the Kingdom of God.
And now let’s talk just a little

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bit about legality here before I
get this fellowship.

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For preaching that we will, we
are once saved, always saved so.

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Clearly that’s not what I’m
saying, right?

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It’s not once saved, always
saved.

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You can’t get baptized and do
whatever it is you want and

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you’re saved.
We know that when we carefully

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read those verses.
We understand that there is a

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responsibility that is attached
to it.

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Now I tried to outline that in
that conversation that I had

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with God.
It’s outlined in there, right?

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Nothing is just given.
He gives it for free.

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We are going to be in the
Kingdom.

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We are but there.
Are there is a responsibility,

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First of all, it’s faith you.
Have to have faith.

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You are saved through faith.
What is that Faith is a.

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Complete trust and confidence in
something or someone.

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That’s it so.
Not only do you have to have

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faith in God, complete
confidence in Him, but also in

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His plan and his Kingdom.
If you don’t have that, then

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you’re already at A at a
disadvantage.

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We also mentioned that you have
to seek first His Kingdom.

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We also have to deny
ungodliness, live soberly,

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right, righteously and godly,
but just a sample of some of the

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things that we’re required to
do, but as he has told us.

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My yoke is easy and my burden is
light.

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And it’s really summed up by
this Hebrews Chapter 11 for six

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without.
It is impossible to please him,

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for he that cometh to God must
believe that he is.

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And that he is a rewarder of
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Simple.
Now, as we prepare for the

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memorial, we’re going to be
approaching this table,

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hopefully with some mixed
emotions because we struggle

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with the idea that a perfect.
Man, the only Son of God,

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willingly allowed himself to be
tortured and crucified for you

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and me.
And when we look at ourselves.

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And we sometimes do not like
what we see, so we feel sad.

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You know, I let him down, you
know, or I feel shame because of

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the things that I’ve done.
But.

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We also must come to this table
with an incredible joy.

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Understanding that without that
sacrifice, we’d be lost.

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Because there is no ability for
us to earn salvation, it

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required his death.
For the door to be open for us

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and Kristen, did you get the
hemp that we’re going to be

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closing with today?
No.

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Can you can you play him 434
Okay.

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We’re going to close our him
meeting today with him 434 and

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coincidentally enough, we sang
it last week and I I said man,

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that that’s it.
That’s the hymn that really fits

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this topic.
So I want to read it through.

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And then let’s keep that in our
mind as we sing it when we close

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our meeting today, says Lord,
Our Parting.

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Do thou brighten radiant
blessing on us shed that says

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help us to leave here
encouraged, let thy.

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Word our lamp enlighten all the
path that lies ahead.

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God’s word is is what keeps the
dark at Bay and verse 2GO.

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Before to guide and cheer us,
rouse our spirit.

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And speed the race.
Help us to be joyful.

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And to not wallow in doubt or
shame, may we feel Thy presence

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near us right Keep keep you on
the forefront of our minds,

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strengthened by Thy heavenly
grace.

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Help us to trust in your Gift of
Grace verse.

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Three, there’s faith and hope
within us, burning gird our

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loins with purpose, strong.
Zion words our faces.

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Turning, marching.
As thy chosen throng.

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We will not be moved.
We are.

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Focused towards the Kingdom with
that joy set before.

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Us in One Direction, verse four,
when the morning star shall

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waken gentile lands from darkest
night, may dawn find us true and

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unshaken, fit to share its
glorious light.

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When Christ returns and brings
light to this Dark World.

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May we experience that with joy
and.

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Not doubt, the Apostle Paul
tells.

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Us in Second Corinthians verse 9
verse 15 Second Corinthians 9

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verse 15 Thanks be unto God for
his unspeakable gift.

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