295: Cam Beeler – The Parable of the Talents (Matt 25)

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This week’s talk is a Sunday
School class given at the San

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Diego Ecclesia just last Sunday
May 5th of this year.

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My brother Cam Beeler.
I was really thankful to get

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this suggestion from a member of
that Ecclesia that was in the

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audience and I guess to be clear
about my bias I’m a huge fan of

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Cam a friend of his we we we
check in with each other

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throughout the year and so I was
obviously I was excited to

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listen to the class and and I’m
excited to share it.

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But though I am fairly biased
being a just having a

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relationship with Cam, but I do
think it’s a very good study on

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kind of Matthew 25 and the
parable of talents.

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He touches on a lot of different
subjects, so it does kind of he

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kind of takes a couple trips
down different paths.

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But there is a main focus on
kind of our role and how we

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should respond to what has been
given to us.

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And he has a kind of an
interpretation of Matthew 25,

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which I hadn’t considered before
that I thought was helpful.

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I also think Cam has a unique
way of talking in a a really

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American accent.
I was thinking for, you know,

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the majority of our listeners
are not from North America.

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So I think it makes for a good
podcast as well.

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And he has a lot of great kind
of 1 liners in here that even if

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you don’t follow kind of the
organization of what he’s

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saying, I still think it’s a an
easy listen and should be a a

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good, a good, good episode.
So I was excited to to share it.

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So here is Cam Beeler on the
parable of the talents.

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But I want to start with kind of
a a thought.

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I want to, I want to collect
some observations about our

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role.
Now, last week I did part of

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this.
This is like a 5A5 series course

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that I’ve all crunchled up
until, you know, 22 Sundays.

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And it may look like that.
Last week we talked about God’s

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master plan.
Anybody want to pop off what

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what God’s master plan is from
the Habakkuk verse, Earth should

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be filled with the knowledge,
the glory of the Lord as the

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waters cover the sea.
And that is a very nicely

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encapsulated statement that has
a broader expression.

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And the broader expression is
that what God is doing?

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You know, because the glory of
the Lord’s expressed in Exodus

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33 and 34, when when Moses asked
God to reveal his way.

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What God is doing is he’s
developing a community of people

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who will be his family, who
operate with each other with

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compassion and graciousness,
slow to anger, you know,

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patience and abounding in love
with one another, right.

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And we see that when when you
see that and you elaborate on

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that plan in that way and you
say, well, what does that look

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like, right?
Because I think it’s, you know,

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it’s like any, any map of the
destination.

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If you want to get to the
destination, you got to know

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what the destination is.
And God has in in little pieces

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and with riddles and with
metaphors and with the, you

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know, the history that’s been
laid out is continuing to show

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us what it looks like both.
For Kingdom expression and the

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breaking of Kingdom expression,
right?

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So that we can take any part of
the Bible, any story, any

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account and we can link it back
to what God is doing and say OK

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that makes sense here, God is
showing a contrast, right?

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The sin in the garden is a
contrast with what God is

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developing.
And yet God didn’t uses that in

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disciplining of his children to
develop the actual expression of

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Kingdom living, of correction,
of redemption back to you know

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what I would say I call
alignment with God’s plan.

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And today we’re going to talk
about a couple of those things.

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But I I like to start with that
visual.

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What is the visual?
Well here’s one visual which I

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haven’t shared yet.
Imagine a great day.

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It’s a Sunday.
It’s the the the, you know, the

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the meeting was great.
The the, you know the Sunday

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school was mediocre maybe, but
the egg store was fantastic.

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And you you know that everybody
goes home and you got the kids

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around the table and there’s
happy chatter and the kids

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aren’t fighting over who gets
the extra chicken wing.

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You know, they’re they’re all,
you know, everybody is happy

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with what they’re getting.
I just may be a fantasy world.

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You’ve got lots of kids, but
that’s the point, right?

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Mom and Dad are around the
table.

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The kids are around the table.
Everybody’s laughing,

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everybody’s happy.
Everybody’s working with each

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other, and they’re behaving.
And it’s just a moment where

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you’re like, I want to take a
picture in time because this is

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beautiful.
It’s beautiful when a family

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works well together.
And that’s no accident.

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We didn’t evolve to this state
to appreciate the beauty of that

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kind of outcome.
We were given that we were

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engineered to know that that’s
beautiful because our father

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values that.
And I’m not talking about the

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Chicken Lee, right?
I’m talking about the love of a

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family for each other around the
table, working together,

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enjoying each other’s company.
And God adds a couple of things

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to that, right?
And we can think when we’re

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younger that, oh, these are the
commands we got to follow.

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We got to obey these things in
this.

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But what God is doing for us is
providing the pieces that, when

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applied in our lives, help our
lives work, help our

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relationships work right without
those things, without without

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the insight into what God is
giving us.

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And in providing to us as
guidance for survival in life

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and in the right way, we just
become animals, fighting for our

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own interests.
And that has a completely

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different reality, right?
So I love the picture of a

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family around the table.
I mean it’s it’s also why we

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Jesus.
This is not in my notes, but

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Jesus is talking at one time.
He’s at dinner with a a Pharisee

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who’s invited him in, right?
And they’re all there.

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And Jesus tells him you would
receive extra blessing if you

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would invite other people,
people who couldn’t pay you back

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around the table, right?
But here’s an interesting thing.

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Who’s around the table?
Our family, Our friends, right?

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And Jesus is like, widen the
Nets, invite more than just

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people who will return the favor
to you, right?

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Extend your blessing and you
will be blessed for it.

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And and this is kind of what
we’re being told is the Kingdom

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of God is not my family.
My family’s bigger than my

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children, right?
My ecclesia by definition is my

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family.
There are people I don’t even

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know yet that will be part of
our ecclesia tomorrow and some

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of them will be because we
broaden the net.

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We don’t know who our family is
yet.

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It isn’t finished.
And often times what was

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happening with the Pharisees and
Jesus was commenting to this is

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you’ve self constrained.
Your blessings will abound if

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you’ll broaden the net, extend
it to people who can’t return

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the blessing to you.
And I find it actually beautiful

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because the next conversation is
now there’s a crowd of people in

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the room with them as they’re
having the conversation and he’s

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still at dinner.
So apparently the Pharisee was

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like, that’s a good idea, but I
love that visual.

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The one of the things I find for
me and I find that things that

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are true for me are often true
for other people, is that I tend

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to over complicate things.
I tend to see, I mean I I I see

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the spider web of scripture,
things that all connect and then

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I’m like, well how do I clarify
that?

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And then I live in that kind of
complexity sometimes.

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And then every now and again
there’s a vision of simplicity.

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What God is inviting us to do
and ask us to do is not

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complicated.
There can be difficulties, there

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can be complications.
But but the core of what He’s

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inviting us to do is not
complicated.

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Developing A broader family from
the people that he is calling

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right to operate in a way that
is beautiful.

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Now on an individual basis, we
can be called a specific things

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that are difficult.
Jesus isn’t the only person

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who’s had a difficult ministry,
but he’s he’s probably the one

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with the most difficult
ministry.

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Would you agree?
Right.

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OK, good.
I like to see this.

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And if you don’t agree, that’s
fine.

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Come talk to me later, ’cause
you probably know something I

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don’t know.
You know, and and everybody

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knows something.
I don’t know many things.

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So I get to learn all the time.
And that’s awesome.

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So now I’m going to bring this
around and I want to bring this

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around a little bit different,
but it but it’s going to feed in

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today.
We’re going to talk about given

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enough time, Matthew 25, there’s
a parable and I find the parable

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is very instructive and it’s the
parable of the talent.

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So we’re going to talk about
that.

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I’m going to talk about our
roles, and specifically I’m

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going to talk about the roles
that we’re called into now this.

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Now we could talk about the
different kind of role that each

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person had.
I think we touched on that a

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little last week, and I may
touch on that again.

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But I want to talk about the
hats that God has labeled for

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us, the roles that God has
called us into as believers.

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And we’re going to think about
elevating our notion of our

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privilege in the Lord.
Now that’s a loaded word these

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days.
I don’t mean it necessarily in

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loaded fashion, although there’s
some truth to that.

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And then we’re going to go from
there and talk about Sabbath.

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So I know it sounds like a lot
our privileged Sabbath and

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Matthew 25 parable of the
talents.

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Hopefully we’ll get past the
first part.

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Sometimes I struggle to get
through lots of content.

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OK, so here we are.
Now I want to do this.

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I’m going to do this all day
because these things drive me

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nuts and I can’t see with
anyway.

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Think about whether these things
are something that resonate with

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you and do actually come out of
the scripture for each of you.

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You are all servants of the
Master.

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Think to yourself, is that true
or not?

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We desire to all be friends of
the Son, the friends of Jesus.

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And if we’re friends of Jesus,
that makes us friends of God.

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We’re called to be ambassadors
of the ministry of

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reconciliation, Ambassadors of
Jesus. 2nd Corinthians 5 And

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that says that if you’re
ambassadors of Jesus, that

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you’re that the God has called
us to be the very righteousness

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of God.
That’s what he says.

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The scriptures say we’re sons
and daughters, and it calls us

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also the children.
It says that we are the very

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people of God because he called
us, we are holy and we’re told

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that as he is holy, so we should
be holy.

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In another verse it says as he
is perfect, so we should be

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perfect.
I mean, think about that kind of

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instruction when you get up in
the morning, are you thinking,

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OK, today’s my day for
perfection and I don’t.

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And yet here it is.
I said, children of God, do you

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think of yourself as royalty?
I mean, the full implication of

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being children of God.
OK, so is God a king?

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I mean, I didn’t even say it,
right.

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What did I miss?
Yeah, the word a God isn’t a

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king, right?
God is the king, the king, and

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the scriptures say it in time
and Time and Time.

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The Lord of Lords Adonai, the
King of Kings, Malek, right?

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He’s above all others, and yet
we’re called his children.

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And what is a child of the king?
Common or royal?

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OK, that I’ve got.
I’ve got really loud voices

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right here.
I love the loud voices, but I

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expect more Common or royal?
Royal.

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Do you wake up in the morning
thinking I’m royalty?

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I don’t mean from the
entitlement standpoint.

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Jesus made the comment to the
apostles, right?

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The Gentiles Lord it over each
other.

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I’m going to demonstrate an
example for you as your master.

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I will be your.
I will demonstrate service and

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if I’m going to serve you and
I’m your master, common or

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royal.
Now Jesus was a man, was a

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person, just like you and I are
dealt with the same struggles,

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the same hardships, all of these
things, the same temptations.

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And yet was without sin.
OK, feel free to volunteer,

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especially if I leave that semi
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He was without sin, OK?
And God raised Jesus gave him

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the name above all other names.
What name is above all other

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names?
Nope, Nope.

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Thank you for doing that though.
That’s a great lead in That’s

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exactly how we think, right?
We read that we know.

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We call him Jesus.
We see that Jesus was given the

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name above all other names.
Jesus’s name was Yeshua, right?

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That doesn’t change anything.
That was what he was called in

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his day.
He was raised and given a new

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name.
So I presume that the new name

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he was given was not Yeshua.
He was given a new name.

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He was given the name that is
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The clue for this would be in
Jeremiah 23 says there will be

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one who will be taken out of the
branch of David, right?

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He will redeem his people and he
shall be called and in English

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it says the Lord my
righteousness.

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Now interestingly enough, if you
back into the Hebrew it doesn’t

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say Lord, it isn’t that an I.
It’s Yahweh, it says, and his

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name shall be called Yahweh.
Zadiq.

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The name above all are the names
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line of David.
Now whose name is Yahweh?

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God.
It’s interesting not part of the

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class, but interesting that in
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said.
It’s talking about Jerusalem and

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it says it shall also be called
Yahweh, my Zadiq.

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Now Zaddiq is the word that’s in
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Melchizedek.
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the name of God and Zaddiq and
that’s what he shall be called,

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calling to Jesus and calling to
Jerusalem.

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And the reason I say that about
Jerusalem is because when you

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get to Revelation 3, verse 11, I
believe it is.

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It says to he who overcomes I
shall make to be a pillar in the

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temple of my Lord shall never be
removed, and he shall be given a

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new name.
He will be given the name, the

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new name of Jesus.
He’ll be given the new name of

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Jerusalem, and he’ll be given
the new name, the name of our

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Father of God.
Those three things, you can

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check it.
It’s in Revelation 3.

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So those things, those things
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And whether it’s literal,
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interesting because Jesus now is
sitting on what?

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What is Jesus sitting on?
There’s like 7 references of

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this and New Testament God’s
right hand on the throne.

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If you’re sitting on the throne,
you are a king, right?

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Because if you’re not a king,
you do not sit on the throne.

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Does it make sense?
King doesn’t like well, who’s

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going to somebody?
You.

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You come sit on my throne?
No, not if you want to survive,

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right?
Jesus Sitting on the throne of

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the King makes Jesus the King
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Whether it’s a literal throne or
a metaphoric throne or both, it

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infers an understanding of what
Jesus is doing in his role

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today.
Now what’s interesting is in

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Revelation 321, Jesus says to
the one who overcomes I will

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give the right to sit on my
throne with me as I sat on my

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father’s throne, right with him.
Now here’s an interesting thing.

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If we sit on Jesus’s throne, if
we’re being invited up, we’re

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already called the children of
God, which makes us royalty.

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If we’re if we’re invited by
Jesus to sit on his throne with

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him, that makes us kings, is
that is that too far a reach

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right.
So now if you’ve got a

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conversation that we’ve been
called to be ambassadors, we’ve

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been called to be ministers,
we’ve been called to be kings

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and we’ll be kings with Jesus
out of Jerusalem.

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And Jesus, right, is the high
priest in the order of

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Melchizedek, who is king priest
in Jerusalem Salem, right?

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And Jesus is the high priest in
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But an order contains people
that makes us what Melchizedek

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and priests connect the dots,
right?

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It’s like we’ve given all of the
information.

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It’s just leading us to an
understanding that what we’ve

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been called right is profound.
Do you wake up and think of

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yourself as being an expression
of a of righteousness and an

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expression of peace to be seen
by others?

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Because that’s what priests do.
They express something right

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from God to others.
Mediators as it were.

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And these are the things that we
have as roles that are cast upon

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us.
We don’t meet them perfectly.

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I certainly don’t.
But it’s hard to meet the

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purpose of your creation if you
don’t start by acknowledging and

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understanding and and under and
appreciating what we’re invited

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into.
And then what I think is the

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Amazing Grace that we’re being
shown.

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Because while we’re called into
the role, we often don’t even

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think about it.
And we certainly can easily

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misrepresent the world we’re in
because we’re called because God

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doesn’t predicate.
He doesn’t say, look, this is

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the role I want you to be in,
and once you get it right, then

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we’ll then we’ll label you
right.

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He starts by inviting us into it
and as soon as we embrace him,

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which I believe happens in
baptism, that those labels

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apply, we just haven’t figured
it out and grown into them,

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right.
We don’t fully appreciate what

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we’re called to, and God’s
dealing with us in mercy and

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grace as we discover.
But he does want us to discover

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it.
Now.

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One of the things I talked about
last week, and I’m going to say

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it again, is the friendship
aspect.

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We can live.
I mean, Jesus is talking about

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his apostles at one point in
time, starting at John 14.

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And he’s like, you know, you did
what I told you to do and and

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and your servants in the house.
But I’ve shared with you

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everything, right?
Everything that’s important.

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And now you understand what
God’s will in the house is.

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And now you are no longer
servants because now you

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understand what God’s purpose
and plan is.

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You’ve become what friends,
right?

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This is the one friend
conversation right now that you

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understand what’s what’s being
done in the house.

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You’ve become friends.
And he goes, and he elaborates

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even one more.
He says, if you do what I

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command, then you are my
friends.

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And he says and I command you to
love one another.

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So let’s do that.
So anyway, that’s that’s one of

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the things I think is
interesting is what God is doing

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is he’s, you know, we’ve got
these stages of spiritual

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development in our lives, and it
starts out with little children

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where we’re being cared for by
whoever the manager of the house

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is kind of concept.
And that’s a Galatians 4

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discussion.
But we’re also kind of servants.

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We’re trying to figure out how
to be obedient to the

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instruction God has given us.
But at some point, we, you know,

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we’re being invited to grow to
the point where we don’t need to

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just follow the commands.
We actually need to figure out

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what God is seeking to do so
that we can apply ourselves

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towards His purpose.
In other words, we understand

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God’s plan and we understand how
we fit in it, and we know how to

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participate actively and
voluntarily in the plan of God.

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That’s what friends do.
We love what He’s doing, and we

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want to be a part of it, and we
figure out how to fit in.

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We can be servants doing what
we’re told, or we can be friends

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figuring out how to further it,
right?

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And that’s what Jesus is telling
him.

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You know what you need to know
now?

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You will no longer be called my
servants.

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You will be called my friends,
and I find that to be an

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invitation for each and every
one of us, right?

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God will continue to work with
us in mercy and compassion and

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graciousness and kindness as
servants.

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But He’s inviting us to grow up
in his family and become friends

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and active participation, active
participation of the plan.

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Now to me that gets even more
scary because I’m like, So what

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am I supposed to do?
Am I like, you know, David built

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a temple.
Why did he build a temple?

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You know, that’s a pretty big
undertaking.

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You know, is this talking like
I’ve got to start, you know,

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saving money and and talking
about a seven-year plan so that

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I can do one thing and I and I
think not.

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I think the scripture actually
indicates to us it’s we tend to

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complicate it, but God actually
isn’t.

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Act asking, asking for
complicated.

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Now I’ll say this, being a
participant in the plan of God

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is in and of itself fairly
straightforward, and I’m going

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to give some practical comment
commentary in a second.

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God may ask you to do something
profoundly difficult, right?

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And I think that exercise is one
of spiritual development and

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generally for people that have
specific roles that actually

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have profounding, you know,
profound implications and ripple

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effect.
And that can be any any one of

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us and every one of us at
different places and times in

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our lives.
But the day-to-day, being a

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servant of God has one thing
that I think is different and

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it’s an exercise of vision, both
understanding what he’s looking

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for and and and and I actually
do the literal vision thing.

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I think I did this last week as
well.

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I actually look up and think,
OK, a family that loves each

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other is what you’re driving to
develop on the earth.

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I’m not saying trying or seeking
because God doesn’t try.

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He does.
And I can participate now.

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And what is something simple I
can do, OK?

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And it could be the way I
interact.

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It could be a conversation I
have.

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It could be inviting people to
lunch.

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It could be, you know, seeing
someone that needs a little bit

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of food and helping them and and
saying, and I just want you to

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know that the kingdom’s coming
and when it comes you won’t be

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captive to the difficulties you
have.

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It’s keeping an eye on what God
is doing and what you’re doing.

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Because when you do it, it’s
like, you know, everybody with

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children raises a family, and
everybody that raises a family

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loves their children mostly,
right?

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But not everybody raises their
family with an eye to the

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Kingdom of God coming and the
children being in the Kingdom

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and then operating with their
children in a way that manifests

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the love and compassion and
gracious and mercy, mercy and

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kindness.
You may see the same behaviors

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from different families, but
one’s motivated by a view of

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what the Kingdom is and the
other one’s motivated because

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that’s just how they interact.
It makes all the difference in

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the world.
When you look to God’s plan and

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to God to determine how you’re
going to act, the motive

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matters.
The motive matters.

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All right.
So I said I was going to talk

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about Sabbath, and believe it or
not, Sabbath fits in.

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And I’m going to start with the
conversation on what what

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exactly is Sabbath?
I mean, there’s going to be a

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lot of possible answers.
What is Sabbath?

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Rest.
OK.

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Rest from what?
Rest from work.

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Rest from providing for
yourself.

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OK, That’s good.
Where do we see where do we?

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OK.
I didn’t say it.

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We see it first in creation.
All right.

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And what happens that that calls
it Sabbath?

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What is what is it that that
makes it a Sabbath in creation,

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in Genesis two really anybody.
It actually says what about God

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that he he rested right rested
from all his creation.

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Now here’s an interesting thing.
Jesus does some stuff on the on

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the Sabbath, right?
And the Pharisees come, come

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after him.
You know, there’s six days a

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week You could be healing.
People don’t do it on the

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Sabbath, which I find funny.
And Jesus makes a comment,

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right?
He supports his work on the

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Sabbath by saying, well, he
does.

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I’m getting to that one, getting
all ahead of me.

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Owen says.
The Sabbath was not made for

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man.
No, no, that’s not it.

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Did I say it wrong?
I did say it wrong, didn’t I?

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Man?
Man was not made for the

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Sabbath.
The Sabbath was made for man and

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the Lord and the and the Son of
man is Lord of the Sabbath.

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The other thing he says, which I
find quite interesting, is my

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father is still at work, so I
must work.

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There’s an interesting one under
the Sabbath.

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And yet you get all the way up
to Hebrews 4.

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And when he talks about the
Sabbath, the author of Hebrews

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right, He talks about the
Sabbath rest.

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And he said God rested from all
his work.

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And he said, and we also wait in
eager anticipation of the

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Sabbath that’s coming, right?
So that we also will rest for

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more work, which puts the
Sabbath in the future.

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So interesting, isn’t it?
So what is the observation of

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the Sabbath?
What is the Sabbath of the

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future?
What do we call that?

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That is exactly right.
We call it the Kingdom.

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So the Kingdom age we’re looking
for is the Sabbath rest?

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Well, we’ll be resting from our
work, but will we be sitting on

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a cloud somewhere with a harp
not doing anything?

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Is that the visual?
What?

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What are we going to be doing?
How long do we say the Sabbath

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rest on the earth is
classically, Yeah, there’s no

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risk in this when you guys know
what this is.

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How long do we say it’s going to
be?

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1000 years?
Thousand years?

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Sabbath rest.
I’m OK if it’s 1001.

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If it’s 10,000, it’s 20,000.
But the evidence of the

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scripture, there’s one or two
verses that say 1000 years.

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So I’m going to go with 1000
years.

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What are we going to do on the
earth?

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What happens at the end of the
thousand years?

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God is All in all, which means
there’s no longer any what on

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the earth.
There’s no more sin.

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And when there’s no more sin,
there’s no more.

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There’s no more struggle,
there’s no more death.

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We’re told in Revelation 21 the
old, old order of things has

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passed away, that you know, the
mourning and crying, those

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things are gone.
The God will dwell with man.

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We start in the creation with
God dwelling with man.

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We end at the completion of the
creation, with God dwelling with

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man.
So it seems to me that for 1000

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years we start with an earth
that’s full of corruption and we

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end with an earth that has none.
So I think there’s a lot of work

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going on for 1000 years because
we’re purifying mankind in the

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earth for 1000 years, and that
purification is the elimination

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of sin and death, right?
One person at a time.

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So it’s interesting because what
does Jesus do on the Sabbath?

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He did miracles.
But what did his miracles do,

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right?
What about the man who was lame?

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00:32:04,480 –> 00:32:07,480
He’s healed, right?
What did he say?

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I could say and he did that on
the Sabbath, right?

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But, he said, I could say your
sins have forgiven you.

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Stand up and walk or be healed.
Take up your map.

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Go home.
And so you know and.

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For your benefit, be healed,
pick up your, you know, pick up

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00:32:29,680 –> 00:32:31,880
your map, go home.
What did he do?

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00:32:32,160 –> 00:32:35,880
What is that?
It’s like he it’s like he stops

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the, you know, stops the video
for a second, looks at us and

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00:32:39,040 –> 00:32:44,440
says are you paying attention?
Because this is a.

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Sabbath Act now What days did
Jesus heal on?

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All of them.
Matter of fact.

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That’s the whole thing with.
The Pharisees, You have six days

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a week.
You heal on.

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Leave the Sabbath alone and
Jesus is like you, missing the

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point.
The Sabbath is.

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An observation of the Kingdom
that’s coming when you will

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cease to be filling your bank
account for your own purposes,

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and you’ll be committed to
furthering God’s Kingdom on the

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earth.
And purifying.

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And bringing healing and
demonstrating love and

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gentleness.
Jesus looked at the lepers and

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you could see the compassion
come out.

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What is the one thing you do not
do with lepers?

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Hutcham What did he do?
Jesus saw beyond.

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The skin lesions to the heart of
the people who were suffering

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00:33:47,800 –> 00:33:51,040
the consequence of mortality
which he shared.

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It’s like he saw.
Himself in them.

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The reason it’s difficult for us
to help people, oftentimes I

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speak from my own experience who
are in dire circumstances is

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because it’s it’s fearful to
actually connect with somebody

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who could be a reflection of my
own reality.

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It’s hard to do.
Because as long as they’re an

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object, I don’t have to connect
with the fact that me too Jesus

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saw mortality, the struggle of
carnality, the expression of

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00:34:30,600 –> 00:34:34,040
that in skin lesions on these
people who were suffering and

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00:34:34,040 –> 00:34:37,760
recognized His shared state with
them.

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And I think that compels him
even further into obedience to

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God and sacrifice for for the
redemptive benefit to all of

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mankind.
OK, not a lot of time.

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00:34:54,920 –> 00:34:57,800
But the key thing I want to
leave with you on the Sabbath

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00:34:57,800 –> 00:35:02,720
conversation, because I do want
to get to the the parable of the

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00:35:02,720 –> 00:35:05,880
talents quickly and it’s going
to leave you more questions than

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00:35:05,880 –> 00:35:08,840
answers.
Maybe, but is the idea of

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Sabbath everything Jesus did was
an expression of the Kingdom on

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00:35:13,360 –> 00:35:16,960
earth, the Sabbath.
The reason he did the same thing

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00:35:16,960 –> 00:35:20,720
on the Sabbath he did every
other day was because every day

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00:35:20,920 –> 00:35:23,720
he was showing people what the
Kingdom is going to look like.

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00:35:25,240 –> 00:35:28,160
He was inviting.
People to see the Kingdom.

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And that’s why the Scripture
actually tells us when Jesus

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comments on the Kingdom is nigh
unto you because he wasn’t

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00:35:35,640 –> 00:35:38,440
waiting for the Kingdom to come
in 2000 years.

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00:35:39,640 –> 00:35:42,880
He was living an expression of
what the Kingdom is.

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00:35:43,200 –> 00:35:47,600
By demonstrating God’s
compassion and God’s mercy, His

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00:35:47,600 –> 00:35:52,200
abounding love, His forgiveness,
even over wickedness, rebellion,

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00:35:52,200 –> 00:35:57,760
and sin as expressed in Exodus
34, he was demonstrating what

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00:35:57,760 –> 00:36:02,200
that looks like in real life.
Right?

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00:36:02,960 –> 00:36:05,000
And the beauty of that
demonstration.

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Because Jesus didn’t come and do
it for us.

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He came as an example to us.
Leading the way.

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For people who believe and our
people of faith is it were

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00:36:17,560 –> 00:36:21,600
intended to step into the role
of expressing the Kingdom in our

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00:36:21,600 –> 00:36:26,240
lives as well.
It’s one thing to know it.

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00:36:26,640 –> 00:36:30,320
It’s another thing to apply it.
Right and he.

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00:36:30,320 –> 00:36:34,360
Wanted us to get beyond the
disciple conversation, to get

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into the son expression, to get
into the friend expression, to

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get into the ambassador
expression.

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These are doers of the word,
right?

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00:36:45,800 –> 00:36:48,040
And we can’t do that if we don’t
understand it correctly.

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So it’s incredibly, incredibly
important to understand it so

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that we can figure out how to
apply it in our own lives.

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And that’s what Jesus did.
He applied, He applied his

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service with his disciples as
apostles and people all around,

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and as such was an expression of
the Kingdom age.

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Now I love the fact that He made
the comment that he was an

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expression that the Kingdom is
nigh unto you, not after he was

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00:37:20,480 –> 00:37:23,000
resurrected, but before he was
resurrected.

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And these little details matter
because before he was

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resurrected, he was mortal, and
he struggled with carnal

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00:37:30,480 –> 00:37:34,040
thinking and temptation, the
hardship and trials that we

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00:37:34,040 –> 00:37:36,920
struggle with.
And it was in that state before

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00:37:36,920 –> 00:37:40,880
his perfection.
At the redemption, at the hand.

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00:37:40,880 –> 00:37:45,880
Of God that he was able to say,
You have seen the Kingdom, it is

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00:37:45,880 –> 00:37:49,160
nigh upon you.
Because you don’t have to be.

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00:37:49,160 –> 00:37:53,480
Perfect and complete.
To be an expression.

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Of what God is doing to be a
participant of what God is

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00:37:57,080 –> 00:37:59,040
doing.
Matthew 25.

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I think it starts at verse 14.
Is a conversation.

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And I’m going to summarize this
because I can’t read it in 5

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00:38:07,680 –> 00:38:09,320
minutes.
There’s a summarization

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00:38:09,320 –> 00:38:12,760
summarization of this master
who’s going away.

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00:38:13,080 –> 00:38:15,920
I believe this is Jesus
referring to himself in the

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parable and he’s got 3 servants
and they have or they all are

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00:38:21,200 –> 00:38:23,080
going to be given a number of
talents.

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00:38:23,080 –> 00:38:26,840
Now there’s an unfortunate
coincidence in English language

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that talent means skill.
Now he does say that one of the

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one of the servants is going to
be given 5 talents, one’s going

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00:38:36,080 –> 00:38:38,680
to be given 2 talents, one’s
going to be given one talent

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00:38:38,880 –> 00:38:41,760
according to their abilities.
And at first, it seems like a

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00:38:41,760 –> 00:38:45,520
worldly type of conversation
that you’ve got different people

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00:38:45,520 –> 00:38:49,080
in different roles that have
different skills, right?

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00:38:49,480 –> 00:38:53,200
And the guy that’s really
talented, you like my pun there

599
00:38:53,400 –> 00:38:56,440
gets more and the guy that has
least talent has less.

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But here’s the interesting thing
about the parable is it’s a

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00:38:59,960 –> 00:39:01,720
parable.
It’s intended to be

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00:39:01,720 –> 00:39:05,520
spiritualized and connected to
spiritual concepts, not worldly

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00:39:05,520 –> 00:39:07,800
concepts.
Because often times Jesus’s

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00:39:07,800 –> 00:39:11,520
parables don’t actually work in
the material world.

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00:39:12,120 –> 00:39:15,280
They’re inverse right?
They’re delivering a spiritual

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00:39:15,280 –> 00:39:16,880
message.
They’re not intended to be

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00:39:17,120 –> 00:39:19,400
leveraged to explain how
business works.

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So as I was looking at this and
looking at the words, it

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occurred to me because it showed
it in the Greek text that the

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00:39:28,880 –> 00:39:33,360
talent is actually a unit of
measure and the talent would be

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00:39:33,360 –> 00:39:39,000
the equivalent of like somewhere
between 58 and 62 lbs.

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00:39:41,200 –> 00:39:46,240
Of either.
Silver or gold in that day the.

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00:39:46,240 –> 00:39:48,680
50 if if.
You took the smaller number and

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00:39:48,680 –> 00:39:51,160
made it silver.
It would be equivalent to the

615
00:39:51,160 –> 00:39:55,720
common workers wages for 20
years approximately.

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So that’s a basically the
effective working lifespan of a

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person.
And it’s like God saying.

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I’m going to.
Pay or I’m going to.

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Purchase your ServiceNow What’s
also interesting is the parable

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00:40:12,720 –> 00:40:16,000
makes the point.
Later on I and I, and it clued

621
00:40:16,000 –> 00:40:18,440
me into what what is being said
in the parable.

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When when God is well, when the
Master returns and measures.

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I said God when Jesus returns
and measures when when the

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00:40:24,680 –> 00:40:29,840
Master returns and measures.
The guy with five had five more.

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00:40:30,840 –> 00:40:34,400
The guy with two had two more,
and the guy with one had buried

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it.
So you’re familiar with the

627
00:40:35,960 –> 00:40:38,240
parable.
And then this statement is that

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00:40:38,240 –> 00:40:41,520
even what you don’t have will be
taken away from you.

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And I took a closer look and I
was like, wait a minute, He

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didn’t give them talents, right?
He didn’t give them talents.

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He put them.
He put his talents in trust with

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them.
They never had their own

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00:40:57,600 –> 00:40:59,520
talents.
They only ever had his.

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00:41:00,160 –> 00:41:01,320
That’s interesting.
How?

635
00:41:01,320 –> 00:41:05,440
How do we spiritualize that?
And then?

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00:41:05,920 –> 00:41:08,760
Initially, still stuck on the
talent conversation.

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00:41:08,760 –> 00:41:11,280
There’s some who’ve got more,
there’s some who’ve got less.

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00:41:11,720 –> 00:41:14,400
And then I began to realize the
spiritual message isn’t that

639
00:41:15,560 –> 00:41:18,200
isn’t there.
There is a conversation to to to

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00:41:18,200 –> 00:41:21,520
the one who much is given much
is, you know, as much as

641
00:41:21,520 –> 00:41:25,360
expected.
But I don’t think that’s the

642
00:41:25,360 –> 00:41:27,400
meat of of the conversation
here.

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00:41:27,920 –> 00:41:32,720
It’s actually different because
what does the one with five come

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00:41:32,720 –> 00:41:36,040
back with?
Five.

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00:41:36,040 –> 00:41:37,440
What does the one with two?
Come back with.

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00:41:38,760 –> 00:41:42,200
So the one with five.
Doubled and the one with two

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00:41:43,560 –> 00:41:46,840
doubled And I thought, huh,
that’s interesting.

648
00:41:46,840 –> 00:41:50,360
What is doubling?
What is a scriptural?

649
00:41:50,360 –> 00:41:52,280
Conversation when you see
doubling.

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00:41:53,880 –> 00:41:56,360
And.
If you give me one and I double

651
00:41:56,360 –> 00:41:59,040
it, or two and I double it, or
three and I double it, or four

652
00:41:59,040 –> 00:42:01,520
and I double it, what happens?
If you give me 7, what will

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00:42:01,520 –> 00:42:04,320
happen?
Right, the skill of a.

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00:42:04,320 –> 00:42:07,600
Person that invests what they
have, right?

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00:42:07,680 –> 00:42:12,240
So the emphasis here is not on
the skill and ability of the

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00:42:12,240 –> 00:42:16,840
individual, it’s on the outcome.
And then I looked at one other

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00:42:16,840 –> 00:42:19,400
little feature, and it was what
the master asked.

658
00:42:20,280 –> 00:42:21,840
What?
He didn’t ask, really, he

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00:42:21,840 –> 00:42:25,520
commanded.
He commanded that I’m going to.

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00:42:25,520 –> 00:42:29,640
Put something in your trust and
I want you to use it.

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00:42:31,760 –> 00:42:33,800
He didn’t say I want.
You to double it?

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00:42:35,040 –> 00:42:37,360
He didn’t say I expect to
return.

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00:42:38,280 –> 00:42:41,760
He didn’t say anything.
There was no qualification, no

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expectation.
Except I’m putting something in

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00:42:44,880 –> 00:42:48,200
your hands and I want you to use
it.

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00:42:49,320 –> 00:42:53,000
Do something with it.
And the one who had five did

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00:42:53,000 –> 00:42:55,520
something with it and got five
more, and the one who had two

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00:42:55,520 –> 00:42:57,280
did something with it and got
two more.

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00:42:57,640 –> 00:43:04,320
They were both doubled.
And I find there to be an.

670
00:43:04,320 –> 00:43:09,520
Interesting message because
Jesus is Jesus has another.

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00:43:11,080 –> 00:43:12,280
Terrible conversation.
That’s.

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00:43:12,280 –> 00:43:15,960
Very similar to the talent one a
few days later.

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00:43:16,160 –> 00:43:19,240
So this is really heavy on his
mind and he’s trying to tell his

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00:43:19,240 –> 00:43:24,000
apostles this message that gets
recorded for you and for me.

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00:43:25,800 –> 00:43:29,960
It’s like Jesus, I think is
still active.

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00:43:31,160 –> 00:43:33,160
I believe Jesus is.
On the throne of God, the

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00:43:33,160 –> 00:43:36,400
scriptures seem to indicate as
much and I believe Jesus is

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00:43:36,400 –> 00:43:40,440
active now as a gift to Jesus.
This is my premise, my

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00:43:40,600 –> 00:43:43,680
suspicion.
God as a gift to Jesus because

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00:43:43,680 –> 00:43:47,800
he stood in obedience and
perfection, elevated him, gave

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00:43:47,800 –> 00:43:50,200
him the name above all of the
names which implies power and

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00:43:50,200 –> 00:43:53,560
authority.
And Jesus is now ruling right

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00:43:53,560 –> 00:43:58,000
now on this, you know, over our
earth and involved with us as

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00:43:58,000 –> 00:44:00,440
well.
And Jesus’s message is, I’m

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00:44:00,440 –> 00:44:03,000
going to send you and I’m going
to put in your care.

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00:44:05,240 –> 00:44:07,960
I’m going to put in your.
Care something that’s specific

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00:44:07,960 –> 00:44:10,480
to you, and I want you to use
it.

688
00:44:11,680 –> 00:44:14,960
And here’s the interesting
thing, everyone that uses it

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00:44:14,960 –> 00:44:16,760
gets doubled.
Now.

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00:44:16,760 –> 00:44:19,760
It’s interesting when you
understand spiritual talk that

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00:44:19,760 –> 00:44:23,680
doubling has to do with first
born inheritance.

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00:44:25,400 –> 00:44:28,320
If you don’t use what I’ve.
Given you even what isn’t yours

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00:44:28,320 –> 00:44:33,440
will be taken from you, but if
you use what I’ve given you, you

694
00:44:33,440 –> 00:44:37,120
will be doubled.
That’s that’s spiritual.

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00:44:37,120 –> 00:44:40,000
Code speak for you will be a
first born.

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00:44:40,880 –> 00:44:43,560
I will give you the inheritance
of the first born.

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00:44:44,400 –> 00:44:48,120
All I’m asking is that you apply
what you’ve been given.

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00:44:48,320 –> 00:44:50,680
It’s interesting.
This message fits in so many

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00:44:50,680 –> 00:44:52,080
ways.
Like the Paul Apollos

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00:44:52,080 –> 00:44:54,720
conversation, you know, we’re
not building a foundation.

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00:44:54,720 –> 00:44:57,720
Foundation’s already there.
Some build with gold, some build

702
00:44:57,720 –> 00:45:00,960
with silver, some build with
stone, some build with hay and

703
00:45:00,960 –> 00:45:05,120
stubble.
But everyone who builds will be

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00:45:05,120 –> 00:45:12,080
saved without regard to the
outcome because we say something

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00:45:12,080 –> 00:45:13,440
else.
It’s also true.

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00:45:13,720 –> 00:45:16,640
Ours is to plant the seed, not
to make it.

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00:45:17,920 –> 00:45:21,480
Grow Who makes it?
Grow God.

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00:45:21,600 –> 00:45:25,800
It’s not in our control.
Actually, When we believe, when

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00:45:25,800 –> 00:45:29,680
we become convinced that the
product is the result of our

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00:45:29,680 –> 00:45:32,800
work, whose seat are we sitting
in?

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00:45:34,000 –> 00:45:37,480
God told us he’s.
The one that makes it grow.

712
00:45:38,280 –> 00:45:40,680
And even in the conversation
that Paul has about the

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00:45:40,680 –> 00:45:43,640
foundation, what he’s really
saying is don’t worry about the

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00:45:43,640 –> 00:45:47,280
product.
What Jesus says to the.

715
00:45:47,680 –> 00:45:49,960
To the apostles about the
talents is.

716
00:45:49,960 –> 00:45:54,680
I’m not telling you what the
outcome is from your.

717
00:45:54,680 –> 00:45:56,880
Work.
What I’m inviting you to do is

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00:45:56,880 –> 00:46:00,440
use what I’ve given you.
And if you use what I’ve.

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00:46:00,440 –> 00:46:03,040
Given you, I’m going to double
you.

720
00:46:03,960 –> 00:46:07,000
And I love this message because
it doesn’t need to be

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00:46:07,000 –> 00:46:09,080
sophisticated.
It doesn’t need to be

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00:46:09,080 –> 00:46:11,760
complicated.
We do need to look at what God

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00:46:11,760 –> 00:46:14,520
is seeking to do on this earth,
and we need to find our place in

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00:46:14,520 –> 00:46:19,280
it.
And then we need as friends, as

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00:46:19,280 –> 00:46:24,360
family to say, how can I
contribute to making what God is

726
00:46:25,080 –> 00:46:27,520
doing in his creation with
people?

727
00:46:27,680 –> 00:46:31,160
How can I participate in that?
Because participating in the

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00:46:31,160 –> 00:46:36,080
plan of God is using what we’ve
been given that has.

729
00:46:36,080 –> 00:46:40,560
The promise of first.
Born attached to it.

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00:46:40,880 –> 00:46:45,840
And God is faithful and Jesus is
faithful, right?

731
00:46:45,840 –> 00:46:50,440
They’re not measuring the
outcome, They’re measuring our

732
00:46:50,440 –> 00:46:52,560
heartfelt desire and
application.

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00:46:53,120 –> 00:46:56,680
That’s it.
Now, doesn’t that take all the

734
00:46:56,680 –> 00:46:59,680
pressure off ’cause, even if you
don’t know?

735
00:46:59,680 –> 00:47:01,360
Exactly what you’re.
Supposed to be doing.

736
00:47:01,480 –> 00:47:03,920
It’s like I had a football coach
I hate to end on a football

737
00:47:03,920 –> 00:47:06,400
metaphor.
Who said?

738
00:47:06,400 –> 00:47:07,880
If you find yourself on the
line.

739
00:47:07,880 –> 00:47:11,400
And you realize that that you
know that the it’s the ball is

740
00:47:11,400 –> 00:47:13,720
about to be snapped and you
realize that you don’t know what

741
00:47:13,720 –> 00:47:16,960
the play is, he said.
When the ball is snapped, jump

742
00:47:16,960 –> 00:47:20,120
up, scream, shout, you know, hit
somebody, do something.

743
00:47:20,120 –> 00:47:22,440
But don’t just stand there,
right?

744
00:47:22,440 –> 00:47:25,040
If you don’t know exactly what
your role is, that’s fine.

745
00:47:25,400 –> 00:47:27,640
Jump up, scream and shout.
Do something.

746
00:47:28,200 –> 00:47:31,960
Participate, remembering what
God is doing in in our community

747
00:47:31,960 –> 00:47:37,040
and being participant in that.
You’ll be led to your right

748
00:47:37,040 –> 00:47:41,280
role.
You’ll be blessed.

749
00:47:41,880 –> 00:47:45,040
For your voluntary active
participation, applying what God

750
00:47:45,040 –> 00:47:49,520
has given you to participate in
His plan, and that’s my

751
00:47:49,520 –> 00:47:53,680
encouragement to you, we have a
wonderful God.

752
00:47:53,680 –> 00:47:57,880
He’s incredibly faithful.
He’s not asking us to produce

753
00:47:57,880 –> 00:47:59,840
the outcome.
He’s asking us to apply what

754
00:47:59,840 –> 00:48:04,280
we’ve been given, to participate
in his plan of building a family

755
00:48:04,600 –> 00:48:07,920
that works and operates together
in a beautiful way,

756
00:48:08,480 –> 00:48:11,560
demonstrating compassion,
kindness, graciousness,

757
00:48:12,360 –> 00:48:15,920
forgiving each other, bearing
with each other’s grievances.

758
00:48:16,480 –> 00:48:19,840
You know, working with each
other gently and kindly.

759
00:48:21,840 –> 00:48:25,880
Doing that is expressing and
being participant and God’s plan

760
00:48:26,080 –> 00:48:30,280
and being an expression of the
Kingdom of God on earth right

761
00:48:31,000 –> 00:48:33,040
now.
Thank you for your attention.

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00:48:50,910 –> 00:48:52,790
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