287: Jeff Gelineau – An Acceptable Alternative

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Welcome to Good Chris Selfie and
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I’m Levi.
And I’m Chris.

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We post a new episode at the
start of each week with the

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short intro beforehand to kind
of set the stage for the talk

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you’re about to listen to.
And now?

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Let’s talk more about this
week’s talk.

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This week’s class is the 4th
class of four classes given by

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brother Jeff Jelineau, my dad at
the Belmont study today in 1998.

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Now, so Belmont is now called
San Francisco Peninsula.

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They moved and I really enjoyed
this class.

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Obviously I have a huge bias
here listening to my dad, but I

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found it really interesting that
this is him as a young man.

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He’s younger in this class when
he’s presenting this class than

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I am now and I very much enjoyed
this class.

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I think it’s a concept knowing
my dad and knowing what he’s

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kind of passionate about, that
it’s something he’s been

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thinking about and caring about
for a long time.

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Basically, that there are ideals
and then we fall short of

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ideals, which is, you know, sin
or we make actual mistakes, but

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then there are acceptable
compromises.

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That the acceptable alternative
is what the study day is called,

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and all four of the classes are
about that.

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That sometimes we can get
confused, as are the ideals.

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Like now the acceptable
alternative is now the ideal,

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forgetting that we’re only using
this kind of construct to deal

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with our own failure and
inability to consistently reach

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the ideal anyways.
He applies it in this class to a

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Collegial life specifically, but
this class was definitely the

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best one to share because he
recaps the concept as a whole

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and then reviews the first three
classes and you know, and and

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those have different
applications.

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So family and work on and on.
Yeah.

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I was very encouraged by this
class.

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Again, it is.
I obviously have a strong bias.

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Dad’s been on the show before in
episode 50.

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I think I posted that one as
well.

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But this one is so much, it was
very interesting for me because

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in episode 50 it’s that was 15
years ago.

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But I I remember him obviously
very well at that time kind of

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who he was as a as a as a man or
whatever and but this I don’t I

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don’t feel like I knew this
person.

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I was 10 when he gave this class
and you know so anyways it’s

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just a it it was just very
interesting to listen to.

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But I do think it’s for me but I
think it’ll be interesting for

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anyone to listen to which is,
which is why we’re sharing it.

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There is obviously a problem
with the audio.

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Basically, his voice was never
as high as it is in this in this

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class.
So there’s something in the

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recording and how the recording
was saved as a tape over time

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that changed the audio.
It’s very, very easy to

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understand.
You’re not going to have a

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problem listening to it.
I just think it’s worth stating

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for the record that his voice
never sounded exactly like this.

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You’ll see in just a minute.
So here is Jeff Jelineau the

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acceptable.
We’ve talked about some pretty

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strong topics this morning.
I really wanted to get us to

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open our eyes and get us to
think and address some serious

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issues.
And without the open minds and

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loving hearts, some of these
things can’t be said.

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So I won’t review again the
three options.

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The clearly wrong choice that’s
sinful, easiest, and leads to

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death.
The clearly right choice that’s

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righteous, hard, and leads to
life.

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And I won’t talk again into the
third time review that

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acceptable alternative that is
is neither but very complicated.

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I won’t stress again with our
our purpose and our goal to

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remind us about the differences
between the two and cue us in on

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how to look for one and and the
rumor that complicate

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complications are the hallmark
of alternatives and compromises.

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But I will remind us to remember
to strive for higher ground,

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push yourself to make better and
and stronger choices.

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In the Lord, we spent some time
looking at our home life.

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I encouraged us to remember that
there’s always better choices we

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can make doesn’t mind some time
talking about work and reminded

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us to realize the situation
we’re in.

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It’s the imperfections and the
complications that come with

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just having to be at work and to
set a clear moral compass.

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You know daily and and be a a
beacon of of right actions in

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your in your work.
And this last class, we’re going

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to look at ecclesial life.
Now surely there can’t be any

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moral compromises in ecclesial
life, right?

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Surely we haven’t accepted
anything other than the ideal in

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our ecclesia life.
Unfortunately, I’d say yes.

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I would feel guts enough to
stand up front and say that I

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think organized religion, almost
by definition, accepts less than

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the ideal.
First, let’s just take a look at

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this memorial service, the the
center and soul of our ecclesial

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life.
Turn over to Hebrews chapter 10

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and we’ll do the easy one first.
The Wrong Choice,

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Hebrews chapter 10, verses 24
and 25 And let us consider how

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we may spur one another on
toward love and good works.

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

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habit of doing.
Let us encourage one another,

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and all the more as you see the
day approaching clearly.

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Obviously the wrong choice is
for us to abandon our

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relationship with God, for us to
to give up on meeting together,

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to say phooey on them.
It’s just not worth it.

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They’re all such bunged up
people.

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I just don’t even want to deal
with them anymore.

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And I got so many other
problems, like other things

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they’re going to do.
And the golf courses are more

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empty on Sunday mornings than
they are on Saturday mornings,

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and I just don’t want to meet
together.

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Clearly that’s wrong, to abandon
your relationship to to not

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remember the sacrifice of our
Lord.

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The clearly right choice is,
well, Jesus, Paul recounts.

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It recounts what Jesus says
there in First Corinthians 11.

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Read again Paul’s reckoning of
that Last Supper, 1st

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Corinthians 11, starting at
verse 25.

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And the same way after supper he
took the cup, saying, This cup

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is the new covenant.
My blood do this whenever you

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drink it, and rememberness of
me.

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For whenever you drink this
bread, eat this bread, and drink

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this cup, you proclaim the
Lord’s death until He comes.

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Our our fellowship together.
Our memorial meal was intended

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to extend into our personal
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That was the idea behind the
Last Supper was a meal the first

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Christians shared together,
eating and talking, encouraging

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one another, praying for one
another, exhorting one another,

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uplifting one another as often
as they got together.

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I think the the ideal what’s
clearly right is, is breaking

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bread daily, not relegating it
to a certain day of the week,

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not restricting it to a symbolic
sip of wine and and pinch of

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cracker.
A daily remembrance of our

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Lord’s sacrifice around a meal
of fellowship would clearly be

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the right choice.
We have accepted an alternative

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that in and of itself is not
right or or wrong.

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It’s just an alternative
alternative, meeting together

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once a week on Sundays, taking
the bread and the wine together.

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But it is important that we
remember that.

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It’s important that we realize
that that we understand that

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whenever you accept an
alternative, it brings with it

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certain complications.
Accepting alternative often

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doesn’t provide the rich level
of of reward and satisfaction

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that comes from doing what’s
clearly right.

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We may find that in our own
memorial service, the fellowship

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that we share may be stilted.
It may may not grow as strong as

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it possibly could if we invested
more time, more energy, a more

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intimate connection with one
another, into our relationship,

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into our memorial service, into
our church service.

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I’m not trying to condemn what
we do.

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I’m just trying to make sure
that we’re all aware of what

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we’ve done and we haven’t just
fallen into this as the default

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position.
We have to be aware of the

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consequences and the
complications that arise because

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they alternatively be accepted
so we can hopefully face the

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challenges and and and meet them
successfully.

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It would require a a huge amount
of faith to act to do as the

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first Christians.
Take a look at Acts 2.

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Take a a peek back at what their
life was like.

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Let’s read from Acts Two,
Chapter 4, verse 42, Acts 242.

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They devoted themselves to the
Apostles teaching and to the

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fellowship, devoted themselves
to fellowship, to the breaking

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of bread, and to prayer.
Everyone was filled with awe,

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and many wonders and miraculous
signs were done by the apostles.

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All the believers were together
and had everything in common.

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Selling their possessions and
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They gave to anyone as he had
need every day, every day they

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continued to meet together in
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They broke bread in their homes
and they ate together with glad

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and sincere hearts, praising God
and enjoying the favor of all

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the people.
And the Lord added to their

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number daily, to those who are
being saved.

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I don’t know about you, but that
would require quite a leap on

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our part.
Just half these things.

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Just, you know, the effort
required to meet together daily

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and to and to open up and to
share what’s bothering us and

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what’s in our hearts.
To to pray for one another, to

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say nothing about selling
everything we have and having

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everything in common.
Whoa, that’s like way beyond

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where we’re even headed.
But the rewards, Rewards would

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be significantly greater.
Does this sound like a nice

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place?
A place where you’d like to be?

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We have glad and sincere hearts.
Your days are full of praise to

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God.
We’ve we’ve accepted this

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alternative.
We’ve decided that it would be

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easiest and most organized if we
just, you know, met together.

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On Sunday.
First day of the week.

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We had an exhortation, 3 hymns,
4 prayers.

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It was in the same order every
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Just be easier, easier,
organized, wouldn’t take too

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much time out of us.
And it’s not wrong.

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It’s absolutely not wrong.
The wrong thing would be for us

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to ignore it, for us to to not
take part of it.

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But it’s not as good as it could
be.

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Another area I think that we’ve
accepted alternatives because of

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it we’re involved in an
organized religion is

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fellowship.
It would be clearly wrong to

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pretend that we’re in fellowship
with everyone and and share the

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Lord’s table with others
regardless of what they believe.

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Just hey, go on in, break bread
together.

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It would be great.
It would be wonderful if our

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relationships were so small and
so intimate that we could sit

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down with everyone that we ever
have contact with and we could

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personally discuss their
beliefs.

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We can work out agreements
between US and we could, we

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could fellowship them.
This would be clearly right.

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Oh, no one could find fault in
that.

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Well, some people could, but
we’re not going to talk about

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them.
But the the consequences of

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being a member of a worldwide
community caused us to accept an

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alternative of issuing a
statement of faith and basing

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our fellowship on others
acceptance of that statement.

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It’s not wrong.
It’s clearly not wrong.

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But but obviously this method,
like all acceptable

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alternatives, is going to bring
with it complications.

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I’m sure you people here in
Belmont are intimately familiar

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with the complications of of a
statement of faith, and it’s

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going to bring with it a a a
level of of fulfillment and

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satisfaction that is probably
not as great as a more intimate

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and personal relationship with
individuals.

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And then a part of fellowship
that strikes me.

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And an area where we’ve accepted
an alternative in our ecclesial

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life is disfellowship, the
clearly wrong choice?

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I mean it’s scriptural.
It would be to ignore the UN

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Christ like actions and
lifestyles of people around us

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and allow them to continue to
their ultimate destruction.

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There’s there’s there’s several
verses telling us we shouldn’t

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do that.
Take a look at Ezekiel chapter

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three, We see the duties and
responsibilities of the

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Watchmen.
Ezekiel chapter 3.

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Starting at verse 17 Son of Man,
I have made you a watchman for

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the House of Israel.
So hear the word I speak and

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give them warning from me when I
say to a wicked man, You will

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surely die, and you do not warn
him or speak out to dissuade him

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from his evil ways in order to
save his life.

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That wicked man will die for his
sin and I will hold you

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accountable for his blood.
But if you do warn the wicked

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man and he does not turn from
his wickedness or from his evil

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ways, he will die for his sin.
But you will have saved yourself

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And clearly we we have a
responsibility.

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We can’t just allow the person
to to continue in a an uncrice

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like way knowing that their path
is is is leading them to death

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and not say anything about it.
I love the the verse in Jude.

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You want to turn with me to Jude
verse 22 and 23?

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Jude 22.
Be merciful to those who doubt.

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Snatch others from the fire and
save them to others.

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Show mercy without fear, mixed
with fear, hating even the

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clothing stained by corrupted
flesh.

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Snatch them from the fire so we
have a responsibility there.

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The right thing is clear, and
let’s turn to 2nd Thessalonians,

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Chapter 3, 2nd Thessalonians,
Chapter 3, Setting of verse 6.

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In the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ, we command you,

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brothers, to keep away from
every brother who is idle and

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does not live according to the
teaching you receive from us.

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For you yourselves know how you
ought to follow our example.

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We were not idle when we were
with you.

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I command you, brother, and to
withdraw the King.

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James says from every brother
that walketh disorderly.

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So we know what the right thing
to do is.

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We know what the wrong thing to
do is.

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Where we fail, I think, is in
the the cold out workings of an

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organized religion.
The concept here is that the

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fellowship we’ve been enjoying
with our brother or sister is so

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precious and so valuable that
life without this fellowship

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would be almost unbearable for
the offender.

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So again in this in this in this
ideal world where we’ve we’ve

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not accepted alternatives and
and the and the fellowship we

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share is is precious and sweet
and and it’s and it’s so

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integral to our lives that we
all depend on it and and and

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require it And then if this
person is offending and we

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withdraw that fellowship they
would they would feel such a

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loss if we were to draw withdraw
from them it would be

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inspiration and motivation for
them to change and to turn from

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their evil ways and to come back
and that that concept is very

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very simple but the reality is
that the brother or sister has

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often already slipped between
the cracks we’re not really

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enjoying.
A relationship with them that we

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should be They’ve already fallen
away and in reality we end up

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just sending them a letter
telling them they’re no longer

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able to break bread with us
until they resolve their

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problems.
That’s it’s not wrong.

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I’m not saying it’s wrong, I’m
saying it’s it’s a it’s a weak

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alternative and an acceptable
alternative.

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We’ve accepted that woefully
fall short of the ideal.

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And that’s kind of indicative, I
think, of acceptable

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alternatives.
They fall short of the ideal

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that maybe our thoughts when we
were younger, we’re better, and

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maybe all the youthful idealism
that filled us when we when we

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were directed by, you know,
higher principles.

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We lived a life based on faith
and obedience.

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I mean that was better.
Maybe accepting all this grey

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and we’re in living in all this
grey is what’s causing our

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problems.
So the three options clearly,

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wrong, clearly right, Acceptable
alternative.

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I would give you three other
words.

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Idealism, cynicism, devoid of of
of of faith, devoid of a life of

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principles.
Giving up on the existence of

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God in the middle is maybe
pragmatism, a life based on

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principles but altered to fit
reality in a life that’s not

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quite as sweet.
That really is the problem with

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acceptable alternatives.
They by definition fall short of

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the ideal, and Our Calling in
Christ is to the ideal.

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Our Calling in Christ is to take
the highest Rd.

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Let’s read from Matthew chapter
5, Matthew 5, verse 38.

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You’ve heard that it was said
eye for eye and tooth for tooth.

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But I tell you, do not resist an
evil person.

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If someone strikes you on the
right cheek, turn to him the

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other also.
And if someone wants to sue you

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and take your tunic, let them
have your cloak as well.

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Someone forces you to go a mile.
Go with them two miles.

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Give to the one who asks you,
and do not turn away from the

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one who wants to borrow from
you.

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If someone hits you, someone
strikes you on the right cheek.

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You have three choices.
The clearly wrong choice is to

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strike them back.
Your next choice is just to walk

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away.
I’m afraid what happens is we

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think that’s about the extent of
it.

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I’m a good person.
I’m a Christian.

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If you strike me, I’m not going
to hit you back.

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I’m just going to turn and walk
away.

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That is the acceptable
alternative.

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Let’s not get confused here.
Jesus says the clearly right

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choice is to give him the other
cheek.

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Also, if you sue me, if you sue
me for $1000, I’m not going to

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sue you back.
I’m a righteous person.

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I’m a Christadelphian.
I don’t sue.

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I’m just going to pay you the
$1000 and walk away and never

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have any more dealings with you
again, right?

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That’s the right thing to do.
That’s the alternative that

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we’ve accepted.
Christ says the right thing to

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do is to pay you the $1000 and
give you 1000 more.

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Give you my cloak and my coat.
If you try to force me into

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walking a mile of you, the wrong
thing would be for me to say,

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are you crazy?
Get out of here.

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The the acceptable alternative
is just for me to say, OK, I’ll

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go ahead, I’ll do it.
I’ll walk a mile.

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The right thing is to go too.
I mean that.

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That’s Christ’s whole point.
Christ’s whole point is don’t

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settle, don’t accept.
Push on.

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Go higher.
Do more than what’s asked of

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you, Give more than what’s
required of you.

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And these are all quite
reasonable alternatives, right?

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It’s very reasonable to do
what’s expected of you.

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These are very realistic
responses.

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They’re very pragmatic.
Hey, can you soon be for $1000?

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You can have the $1000.
OK, I’m not going to fight it,

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but Christ wants more.
There’s an amazing verse in

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Ephesians chapter 4.
Take a look at Ephesians chapter

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4.
It’s a little one.

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You got to catch it before it
goes over here.

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Ephesians chapter 4, verse 28.
He who has been stealing must

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steal no longer but must work
doing something useful with his

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own hands that he may have
something to share with those in

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need.
Now the clearly wrong thing is

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to steal.
So stop stealing.

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That would be right, wouldn’t
it?

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No, that would simply be the
acceptable alternative.

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What we’re called to do is to go
to work, to make something with

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our own hands that we can give
to the person that needs.

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So the thief not only has to
stop stealing, but the thief has

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to give to the poor.
He has to earn some money and

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give it away.
That same thing is required of

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us.
We can’t just not do what’s

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wrong,
we have to do right.

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I use the analogy of being in a
river and clearly the wrong

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thing to do when a river is
drown, right?

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So clearly the wrong thing to do
is say, hey, it looks like fun

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down there and go down and
drowned.

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It’s that’s death.
There’s no hope there

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whatsoever.
The alternative to that is to

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tread water, right?
We say to ourselves, we’re

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keeping our head above water.
How you doing today?

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Oh, I’m keeping my head above
water, as if that’s some kind of

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goal.
The whole point is to get

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somewhere, to progress, to get
to the shore, to get to the

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Kingdom.
If we’re ever actually going to

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get closer to shore, we have to
start moving.

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Just because we stopped stealing
doesn’t mean we’re doing

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anything right.
If we continue to accept the

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Gray as the right, well, don’t
you forget how to swim.

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We’ll forget that there is a
right.

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There’s this story you’ve all
heard about the boiling frog.

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Put a frog in a pot of boiling
water, it says, I’m not getting

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in here and it jumps out.
Put a frog in a pot of cold

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water.
Turn the heat on.

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Frog swims around.
He’s all happy.

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But pretty soon the water heats
up.

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Frog boils to death.
That’s what scares me about my

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life is the is the water just
getting hotter and hotter and

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I’m happily swimming along?
We’ve got to take time.

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You’ve got to step back and look
and say, OK, is what I’m doing

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right, or have I just accepted
an alternative?

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We need to examine our lives and
don’t settle for less than what

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God wants us to be.
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