408: Bob Lloyd – The Way of Life

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Hello everyone, welcome back.

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This is brother Ruben and we’ll
be listening this week to a talk

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given by brother Bob Lloyd given
in Australia.

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I’m not sure when, but it’s Part
1 of the series he gave under

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the title of The Way of Life.
And this talk is called Thank

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God for Hurdles.
And the reason I chose this talk

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was because I’m very fond of it
and have very fond memories of

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it because me and my father used
to listen to it and always quote

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it back to each other.
And he’s very easy to remember

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his quotes from by the Bobbies
and he he just has the skill of

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saying things that just stick in
your mind so you remember them

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for future reference.
And he’s very practical in this

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talk, and he speaks on how to
deal with trials and how to

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respond to them and the need for
trials.

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And he uses some great examples
that really stick in my mind and

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hopefully will stick in everyone
else’s.

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He especially speaks to me when
he talks about thanking God for

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your trials and rejoicing in
them, and even to the point of

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jumping for joy, leaping for
joys, Jesus says.

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And I find that very
challenging, but very helpful to

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think about.
So I hope you enjoy it as much

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as I have, and I’ll hand you
over to Brother Bob speaking to

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thank God for the hurdles.
Good afternoon, my beloved

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brothers and sisters of the Lord
Jesus Christ and all you young

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people and all our friends.
I can’t tell you how happy I am

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to be here with you.
I never thought I’d be back, and

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here I am again.
And I’m so thankful that you

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were kind enough to remember to
invite me.

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I have this problem.
If you invite me, I have to say

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yes.
And sometimes it disturbs my

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wife a little bit.
But if you can do something and

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God’s asking you to do it, I
believe we need to try to do it.

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So as long as God gives us the
strength, we’re going to try.

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But it’s you’re getting less
everyday as you get older.

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I can say something to you that
none of you can say.

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I left Los Angeles Wednesday
evening and I did not sin on

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Thursday because when we landed
it was Friday so I I had no

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Thursday to sin.
Unfortunately on the way back I

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get 2 Mondays so I probably wake
up for lost time.

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But it’s wonderful to think that
you can get in an airplane and a

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few hours later be with so many
people you know and love that

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you haven’t seen for such a long
time.

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I know there’s some new ones
here that we are meeting for the

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first time, and I’m looking
forward to talking to you.

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And it’s certainly wonderful to
see the faces of those that

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we’ve known and loved for over
the years.

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I see Steven Eggington down
there.

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I raced him in 1979 across a
bridge and I won because I

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cheated.
I’ve been doing that all over

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the world.
But the last time I did it, I

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was already in my 70s and they,
I, the guy beat me so bad I

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could hardly see him at the end.
But so I don’t do that anymore.

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But I maybe I could beat him
now.

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We both aged the same amount,
except I had such a big head

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start.
Well, our subject is the way of

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life.
There are two ways you can go in

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your life and you have a choice.
We can choose the way of life,

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which is our subject and live
forever.

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We can choose the way of death
and perish forever.

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Now that doesn’t sound like a
very difficult decision to make.

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Doesn’t life or death and yet I
know you’re going to realize

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this is true nearly nearly
everybody in the whole wide

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world, every year, every decade,
every century, they all choose

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death because they do not want
to take the way of life.

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And so that’s going to be our
subject.

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How can we be sure that we have
taken and are in the way of

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life?
So our studies this afternoon,

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this evening and tomorrow, God
willing, are going to try to

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help us see clearly the way and
then walk ye in it, the prophet

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Isaiah told us.
And I and I shall hear a voice

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behind me, the saying, this is
the way, walk ye in it when you

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turn to the right hand and when
you turn to the left.

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And that’s what we need to do.
We need to hear this voice of

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God which we get from our
scriptures saying, this is a

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way, a walk ye in it.
In Jeremiah’s day the Lord said

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to Jeremiah, and to this people,
ye shall say, Thus saith the

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Lord, Behold, I set before you
the way of life and the way of

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death.
Simple, right?

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Choose life.
Most people don’t, but we want

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to make sure that all of us make
the right decision and choose

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life.
Again, words you’re familiar

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with, and you might want to look
them up there in Deuteronomy

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chapter 30, because Moses is
challenging the children of

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Israel just before he dies.
And he’s an old man.

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He’s even older than I am, and
that’s pretty old.

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And he’ll, he calls them
together as you have come

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together this afternoon.
And he said, I call heaven and

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earth to witness against you
this day I have set before you

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life and death, blessing and
cursing.

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Choose life that you and your
descendants may live, and again

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you.
If you know the history of the

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children of Israel, nearly all
of them chose death out of some

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two and a half million or more
who left Egypt.

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Two of those original ones, over
20, walked across the Jordan

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into the Promised Land.
Joshua and Caleb, all the rest

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perished in the wilderness.
And so history attest to the

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fact that most people do not
choose the way of life.

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And we want you to do that now.
The term the way is a biblical

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term and we don’t use it as much
today as we used to in in years

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past.
In fact, the word appears 374

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times in the King James Version
of the Bible and many years ago

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in the Christadelphian magazine
in what they used to call the

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intelligence section.
It’s it’s really the news.

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But they would report, record
something like this.

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Our dear sister XYZ has fallen
asleep in the Lord.

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She had been in the way for over
60 years.

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Now we know what they meant, but
it sounds like she’s was

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blocking traffic for a very long
time.

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But this phrase, the way is
quite scriptural, so we’re just

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going to look at a few of them,
Solomon says.

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He is in the way of life that
keepeth instruction.

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So now there’s a little clue for
us.

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If you want to stay in the way
of life, you got to listen to

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some instructions, and
instructions we’re going to find

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are in our Bible.
And so he says, I have taught

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thee in the way of judgment and
wisdom.

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I have led thee in right paths.
The Bible was written so that we

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would know the way of wisdom and
judgment.

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It’s clear that God wants us to
avoid the wrong way.

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So Solomon says, forsake the
foolish and live and go in the

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way of understanding.
He is in the way of life that

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keepeth.
Instructions in the way of

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righteousness is life.
Righteousness keepeth him that

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is upright in the way.
The hoary head is a crown of

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glory if it be found in the way
of righteousness.

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He that is upright in the way is
the abomination of the wicked.

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You wicked people don’t like you
to be in the way of truth.

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They don’t like you took to
stand up for what’s right.

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And so Solomon actually warned
us and said there is a way as he

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was writing to a man, but the
end thereof are the ways of

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death.
So the consequences of choosing

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the wrong way is fatal to choose
the right way.

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It’s life and peace, and so it’s
easy for us to deceive

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ourselves.
And when we want to really do

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something, how often we
rationalize it.

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What we want to do is right when
we really know it isn’t so.

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Solomon warns us in the very
first chapter of his Proverbs.

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My son, walk not thou in the way
of them.

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Refrain thy foot from their
path.

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Young people have a lot of peer
pressure.

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As you get older, your peers
start dying.

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My father-in-law lived with us
till he was 102 and we had a big

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party for him of
Christadelphians on his 100th

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birthday.
And I got up and I said

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granddad, we call him
affectionately.

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Granddad has solved the peer
pressure problem.

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He didn’t have any peers.
He was 100 and nobody else in

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the room was anywhere near that.
But we do have peer pressure

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problem.
And so Psalmist saying don’t

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listen to those people who want
to tell you to do the wrong

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things.
And so we read in John chapter

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14, Jesus trying to comfort us
and he says, let not your heart

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be troubled.
You have troubles.

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I know that you can’t get a room
of people this big and not have

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people a lot of troubles.
You know the only people in the

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world had no trouble at all are
dead.

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Be glad you have a few problems.
It shows you’re alive.

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And so let not your heart be
troubled.

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You believe in God, believe also
in me.

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Then he said, where do I go?
You know, and the way, you know,

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we’re talking about the way.
They didn’t know what he was

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talking about.
Thomas was bold enough to speak

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up and ask the question.
Thomas says, Lord, we know not

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whither you’re going.
How do we know the way?

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And Jesus said, I am the way,
the truth, and the life.

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No man cometh unto the Father
but by me.

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So the right way, the only way,
is to follow Jesus, who is the

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way, the truth and the life.
And so Jesus said, my sheep hear

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my voice.
I know them, and they follow me.

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So are you following Jesus?
So our goal is to follow Jesus.

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He says if any man will serve
me, let him follow me.

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And where I am, there shall also
my servant be.

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If any man serve me, him will my
Father honor.

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And then he said, if any man
will come after me, let him deny

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himself, take up his cross and
follow me.

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Now what Jesus is saying is it’s
not going to be easy.

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He’s saying if you want to
follow Jesus, you have to pick

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up a cross and follow him.
And you know what crosses were

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for?
They were to die on.

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We don’t literally die on a
cross.

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We have to crucify our flesh.
We have to stop doing those

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things that our body tells us
that it wants to do.

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So these things have I spoken to
you that in me you might have

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peace.
He says in the world you will

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have tribulation, but cheer up.
I’ve overcome the world.

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Now, did you hear what he said?
He said you’re going to have

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trouble, big trouble.
Cheer up.

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Now that sounds like a
contradiction of terms, doesn’t

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it?
You’re going to have trouble.

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I’m full of cheer up.
And that’s what Jesus is saying.

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And that’s what we should be
trying to do because we’re going

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to talk about something in this
first class that you’ve heard

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before.
I am not going to tell you

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anything you haven’t already
heard, because if I did, it

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probably would be wrong.
You’re all better Bible Students

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than I am.
But I’m going to try to stir up

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your pure minds by way of
remembrance and try to make it

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stick.
So when I thought goes in here,

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it doesn’t go flying out there.
We’re going to try to put a hook

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in the middle and it’ll hang up
and the thoughts will stay in

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the middle as we try to present
them to you.

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And so Jesus is saying, you’re
going to have trouble.

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Cheer up.
I’ve overcome, so can you.

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And that’s why Paul, who
understood that, said I can do

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all things through Christ who
strengthens me.

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He could and you can too.
So Paul travelled among the

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ecclesias and he tried to
comfort them with similar words

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he said.
He said that he exhorted them to

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continue in the faith and that
we must, through much

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tribulation, enter into the
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So Paul is telling us, like
Jesus told us, that you’re going

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to have troubles.
Be followers of me, said Paul

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then, even as I am of Christ.
So the first lesson we want to

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learn in this class is that the
way of life is a way less

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traveled.
It’s strewn with problems and

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hurdles and potholes and detours
and you have to expect them and

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know how to conquer them because
that means to overcome.

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Now, not too many years ago you
had the Olympics here in Sydney

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and it was a very big deal for
the whole world and particularly

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for NSW and certainly for the
city of Sydney.

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Now just imagine that you were
somehow able to get tickets to

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the field and stream, field and
track of the fence and you’ve

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got in the stand and this place
is packed and I know it was

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packed.
I don’t know if any of you went,

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I’ve never been to Olympic game.
We had one in Los Angeles but I

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couldn’t get tickets.
But just imagine now we’re in

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the stands and your boy from NSW
is the runner for the high

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hurdles, representing the great
country of Australia.

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And the band is playing in the
wave, the flags are waving and,

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and we’re getting all ready for
this race and all that.

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You know, I don’t do this very
good anymore.

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But you know, they’re all
getting ready to go and there’s

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the blocks are out there for
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the guy’s got their gun.
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He said on your mark, get set,
go and said take your position

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and then Australia and run and
get down.

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You get the seat in the stock
and he looks down the road, no

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hurdles.
This is a high hurdle race and

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somebody forgot to put hurdles
in his lane and the guy thinks

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on your mark, gets that, hey,
don’t do shoot that gun, don’t

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do shit the gun.
What’s the matter?

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There’s no hurdles in my lane.
I can’t win the gold medal for

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Australia if there’s no hurdles
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I want hurdles to jump over so I
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That’s not too hard to
understand, is it?

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Can you equate that to your
life, that God is literally

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putting hurdles in your lane in
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Jesus said he that overcometh.
You can’t overcome if there’s no

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hurdles.
So the whole stadium waited

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while the groundskeepers set up
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Australian runner and then they
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And you and I are in this Race
for Life eternal and we’ve got

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hurdles in front of us and every
morning when you get up there’s

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hurdles for you to jump.
Instead of saying, oh woe is me,

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look at all those hurdles, just
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A loving God is preparing me for
something bigger and better than

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this life.
In order for me to achieve it, I

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have to overcome.
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And I can do it because I can do
all things through Christ who

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strengthens me.
Again, if you have your Bibles

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on your lap, Hebrews chapter 12
verses thoroughly familiar to

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all of you, and they’re about
the subject on which we’re now

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considering chapter 12 of
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For whom the Lord loves, He
chastens.

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You want God to love you, and
you know what’s going to happen.

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You’re going to be chasing.
If you endure chastening, God

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deals with you as with sons.
For what son is there whom the

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Father does not chasten?
But if you are without

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chastening, of which all have
become partakers, then you are

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illegitimate and not sons and
King James bastards, as you

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know.
Furthermore, we have all had

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human fathers who corrected us,
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You’re thankful when your Father
loves you enough to correct you

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and teach you the right way.
You have a Heavenly Father that

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loves you enough to correct you
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life.
Shall we not much more readily

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be in subjection to the Father
of spirits and live?

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For they indeed for a few days
chastened us as it seemed best

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to them, but He for our profit,
that we may be partakers of His

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Holiness.
Now this next verse is so

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obvious and you already knew it.
No chastening seems to be joyful

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for the present.
You can’t say, wow, this is your

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fun, having this problem, this
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Hurdles are to jump.
Yes, they are an obstacle to

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overcome.
But strengthen your hands and

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hang down in the feeble knees
and make straight paths for your

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feet.
You can do it, brothers and

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sisters.
And that’s the first lesson we

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want to drive home is if you are
going to have hurdles in your

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life.
And I want to talk about how you

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face them because you they make
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So what does Paul say?
Look, come to Romans chapter 5

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and Paul is going to tell us
about suffering.

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Romans chapter 5 being at verse
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This is from the RSV.
Therefore, since we are

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justified by faith, we have
peace with God through our Lord

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Jesus Christ.
Through Him we have obtained

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access to the grace in which we
stand, and we rejoice in our

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hope of sharing the glory of
God.

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More than that, this is Paul
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We rejoice in our sufferings.
Now are you doing that?

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Are you rejoicing in your
suffering?

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You’ve got a problem.
I just met a very nice little

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boy out in the parking lot.
He was explaining to me that he

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has some pins in his neck.
It’s not easy to rejoice when

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you have pins in your neck, but
if God has been put there by the

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medical doctors to help you, be
thankful that they’re there and

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that they’re doing their job.
So Paul says more than that we

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rejoice in our sufferings,
knowing that suffering produces

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endurance, and endurance
produces character, and

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character produces hope.
And hope does not disappoint us

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because God’s love has been
poured out into our hearts

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through the Holy Spirit which he
has given to us.

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Hope helps us to cope, and he’s
saying there we rejoice in our

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troubles.
Now Paul had a problem.

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You already know about it.
He called it a thorn in the

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flesh.
I know a lot of people know what

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it is that Paul didn’t tell us
what it was, but I’m glad you

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already know.
We had lots of different answers

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to that, and I’m willing to
listen to yours.

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But the point is, we don’t need
to know what it is.

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We just happen to know that
thorns stick and they don’t feel

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good.
And if you have a thorn in your

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flesh, you don’t like it either.
And Paul didn’t like it, and

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that’s only normal not to like
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So what did he do?
He took it to God in prayer, and

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he prayed to God once, twice,
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God, please take away this
problem, this thorn.

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It hurts God.
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Paul’s going to be in the
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He won’t have the thorn then.
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Listen, listen to this in Second
Corinthians chapter 12 again,

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you know all this, but three
times I besought the Lord about

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this, that it should leave me.
But God said to me, my grace is

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sufficient for you, for my power
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God says you’re going to have to
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Well, how would you react if God
tells you you must live with the

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problems that you have?
And he said, I will the more

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gladly boast of my weaknesses,
that the power of Christ may

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rest upon me for the sake of
Christ, which I am content with.

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For the sake of Christ, I am
content with weaknesses,

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insults, hardships, persecution,
calamities, all these problems

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I’ve got.
Thank God for hurdles.

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Thank you God for giving me
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So you have problems like Paul
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How are you reacting?
That’s our lesson we want to

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learn from this first class.
How are you going to react to

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the problems you already have
and some that you’re going to

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get that you haven’t even had
yet?

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I have people.
I just can’t take it anymore.

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Do you know that your
subconscious mind does not have

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a sense of humor?
When you talk to yourself and

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you tell yourself, I can’t take
this anymore, Your, your body,

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we will react.
You probably won’t be able to.

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Somebody sees it and he says,
oh, I’m going to get a cold.

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You order a cold, OK, you get a
cold.

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Why do we program ourselves to
fail instead of to succeed?

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Don’t ever say negative things
for yourself.

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Oh, I just can’t handle it.
You can handle it.

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If you didn’t couldn’t handle
it, God wouldn’t let you have it

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in the first place.
So you see, we can take lots

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more than we think we can take
if we just trust in God to

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provide us the strength to get
through what it is we have to go

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through.
And so James now Paul has said

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that we gladly boast in
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James chapter 1 is going to say,
consider it pure joy, my

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brothers, when you face trials
of any kind.

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You got you’re really being
tried.

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Oh boy, are you you’re full joy,
right?

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No, Well, James says yes, when
you have problems, we are to

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thank God for our troubles
because you know this is not a

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maybe thing, because you know
that the testing your faith

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develops perseverance.
Perseverance must finish its

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work so that you may be mature
and complete, not lacking

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anything.
So James is in complete

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agreement with Paul.
How do you react when you have

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problems?
Rejoice in our sufferings,

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knowing that suffering produces
endurance.

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Now, this is not normal in the
world.

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It’s totally unknown.
You’re not in the world.

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You come out from the world.
We have to be different from

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everybody else, and we do have
problems.

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But you see, God, because he
loves you, is going to make sure

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that you never have a problem
that you can’t handle.

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If you couldn’t have handled it,
God wouldn’t have let you have

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it.
And so sometimes when I’ve had a

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really big problem, I said, God,
you think I’m up to this one.

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But since I’ve got the problem,
the answer is yes, I am or you

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wouldn’t let me have it.
And so now this is I want I

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really want you to look up Luke
chapter 6.

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And this is Jesus because where
did Paul get the answer to

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rejoice in trouble?
Where did James get the answer

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to rejoice in trouble?
They learned it from Jesus

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Christ.
And so Jesus is going to answer

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this once and for all.
How do we handle our troubles on

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the way of life?
Luke chapter 6 and coming in at

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verse 20 looking at his
disciples and this is what Jesus

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he looks right at you and he
said blessed are you poor for

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yours is the Kingdom of God.
We’d love to go to weddings.

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Christian Davis go to weddings.
That’s one place you can get

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people out.
They don’t come to some other

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things.
They’ll come to a wedding.

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So big wedding in your area and
all the little children were in

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the audience and after they got
home, they decided to play play

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wedding.
So one little boy, he was going

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to be the preacher and a little
girl was playing the role of the

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bride and the little boy was
pretending he was the groom and

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the the little, the little
fellow who was doing the

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marrying, He said to the little
girl, do you take this man for a

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richer or for a poorer?
And he said, she says for

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richer.
She thought she had a choice.

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She didn’t understand what the
whole thing was.

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But but you see, that’s what we
normally do.

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We oh, we choose the rich, we
see the healthier.

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Now listen to what Jesus says.
Blessed are you who are poor,

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for yours is the Kingdom of God.
Blessed are you who hunger now,

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for you shall be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,

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for you shall.
Blessed are you when men shall

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hates you and when they exclude
you and insult you and reject

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your name as evil because of the
Son of God.

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But I don’t want people to not
like me.

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I don’t.
I don’t want people to reject

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00:27:23,600 –> 00:27:25,160
me.
See peer pressure.

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00:27:25,360 –> 00:27:28,120
You have to stand up for the
truth against your peers.

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And if they’re all going the
wrong way, you don’t go that way

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00:27:30,200 –> 00:27:31,920
just because everybody else is
going that way.

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00:27:31,920 –> 00:27:34,480
Anything that everybody else is
doing is probably wrong.

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00:27:35,320 –> 00:27:37,000
So if ever you come to your
parents and say, well,

437
00:27:37,000 –> 00:27:40,240
everybody’s going, if I was your
father, I’d say, well, that’s

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00:27:40,240 –> 00:27:43,200
why you’re not.
Anything they’re all doing is

439
00:27:43,280 –> 00:27:45,840
probably not a good thing to do
so.

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00:27:46,000 –> 00:27:49,320
And when you do that, they are
going to exclude you and insult

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00:27:49,320 –> 00:27:53,480
you and reject you.
And now we’re coming to the key

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00:27:53,480 –> 00:27:56,240
verse, verse 23.
Rejoice in that day.

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00:27:56,240 –> 00:28:04,070
And Jesus said it.
That was a dumb thing to do.

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00:28:04,070 –> 00:28:09,430
One day I just jumped.
I don’t jump as high as I used

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00:28:09,430 –> 00:28:13,430
to, but he didn’t really mean
that.

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00:28:13,430 –> 00:28:16,830
Do you think you think Jesus
really meant?

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00:28:17,920 –> 00:28:22,360
Let’s read it again, verse 23.
Rejoice in that day and leap for

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joy.
I don’t think Jesus ever said

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00:28:27,080 –> 00:28:32,080
silly talk.
I think Jesus meant that when

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00:28:32,080 –> 00:28:35,680
you have a problem, you should
leap for joy.

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Now you look at this room and
you look at the people in this

452
00:28:40,480 –> 00:28:43,080
room and you look at the
problems that all of you are

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00:28:43,080 –> 00:28:44,760
facing.
This ought to be a jumping place

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00:28:47,160 –> 00:28:51,200
because we’ve all got problems.
Now I’ve taken this verse

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00:28:51,240 –> 00:28:56,720
absolutely literal because Jesus
said to now I know I don’t leap

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00:28:56,720 –> 00:28:59,320
like I used to leap.
And and if you’re at bed fast,

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00:28:59,320 –> 00:29:00,560
you may not even be able to get
bed.

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00:29:00,560 –> 00:29:05,320
You go, you could, you could
mentally leap even though you

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00:29:05,320 –> 00:29:09,240
can’t get out of bed.
And I have to tell you a story.

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00:29:09,240 –> 00:29:13,880
We, we have a Bible class in our
home on Tuesday nights and a

461
00:29:13,880 –> 00:29:16,880
brother comes to this class who
is in the television business.

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00:29:16,880 –> 00:29:19,640
He’s a producer for a newscast,
Channel 7.

463
00:29:20,360 –> 00:29:23,200
And he has to be on duty at 5:00
in the morning.

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00:29:23,200 –> 00:29:25,720
So he has to leave the house
about four.

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00:29:26,080 –> 00:29:28,840
So, so he soon as the class is
over, he’s got to get out of

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00:29:28,840 –> 00:29:30,600
there because he’s got to get up
real early.

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00:29:31,240 –> 00:29:35,680
And we talked about Jesus
telling us to leap for joy.

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00:29:36,840 –> 00:29:41,000
And soon as the class is over,
we close with prayer and we, my

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00:29:41,000 –> 00:29:43,880
wife always has a refreshments
and everybody sits around and we

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00:29:43,880 –> 00:29:47,520
have a nice time together.
But he he said, thanks folks,

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00:29:47,520 –> 00:29:53,120
he’s on, he’s gone.
So later on, the sister, his

472
00:29:53,120 –> 00:29:55,880
wife was talking to my wife on
the phone and she said, you

473
00:29:55,880 –> 00:30:01,320
know, after we left your class,
Fred was jumping all the way

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00:30:01,320 –> 00:30:06,600
down your driveway.
He was sleeping for joy as he

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00:30:06,600 –> 00:30:12,640
left the class because Jesus
said to there’s actually

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00:30:12,640 –> 00:30:15,840
something therapeutic.
I gave this in in England at a

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00:30:15,840 –> 00:30:19,040
place called Wessex camp.
Wessex is a was a farm.

478
00:30:19,040 –> 00:30:22,160
They rent a farm and the farmer
rents them a great big field and

479
00:30:22,160 –> 00:30:26,200
they bring in a big tent called
they call them a Marquis.

480
00:30:26,520 –> 00:30:32,040
There were 750 people broke
bread in a tent that weekend and

481
00:30:32,040 –> 00:30:35,120
everybody brings their caravans
and their tents and everybody

482
00:30:35,120 –> 00:30:38,800
camps.
And on a Saturday I mentioned

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00:30:38,800 –> 00:30:42,480
this to leap for joy in the
morning session.

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00:30:43,320 –> 00:30:45,240
And then we all broke and
everybody went back to their

485
00:30:45,240 –> 00:30:48,600
caravans and tents for lunch and
we came back for the afternoon

486
00:30:48,600 –> 00:30:50,680
session.
And the sister came up to me and

487
00:30:50,680 –> 00:30:53,360
says, oh Bob, my head’s killing
me.

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00:30:53,760 –> 00:30:55,960
I said, what happened?
She said, well, I went into my

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00:30:55,960 –> 00:31:00,000
caravan and I I leapt for joy
and I hit the door.

490
00:31:01,000 –> 00:31:04,560
So when you do it, make sure you
have clearance.

491
00:31:06,600 –> 00:31:10,920
But there was a medical doctor
in the audience and I saw him

492
00:31:10,920 –> 00:31:14,960
later on that same week and he
says, you know, I went home and

493
00:31:14,960 –> 00:31:19,200
I did some research medically
about what you said.

494
00:31:19,800 –> 00:31:21,800
Was it me?
It was Jesus said it.

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00:31:22,280 –> 00:31:25,800
He says it actually has
therapeutic value.

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00:31:27,480 –> 00:31:30,440
Now, you see, we’ve read that.
How many times have you read

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00:31:30,440 –> 00:31:33,080
Leap for Joy?
And how many times have you

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00:31:33,080 –> 00:31:38,200
actually done it?
You see, Jesus meant what he

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00:31:38,200 –> 00:31:42,040
said and, and, and when you have
a problem, the fellow doing the

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00:31:42,040 –> 00:31:44,000
hurdles is going to leap.
He’s going to hit the hurdle if

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00:31:44,000 –> 00:31:47,720
he doesn’t jump.
So when you have problems,

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00:31:48,080 –> 00:31:53,080
listen to Paul, listen to Peter,
listen to James, listen to Jesus

503
00:31:53,080 –> 00:31:56,000
who say this is how you handle
problems.

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00:31:56,400 –> 00:31:59,480
You thank God for your hurdles.
You leap for joy.

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00:31:59,680 –> 00:32:02,240
You recognize that God loves you
or you wouldn’t have this

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00:32:02,240 –> 00:32:06,720
problem and so therefore he’s
helping you to overcome it.

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00:32:12,130 –> 00:32:18,650
We find as we get older we can’t
move as quickly as we used to,

508
00:32:19,170 –> 00:32:22,890
but it’s, it’s doesn’t need to
be a physical leap at all.

509
00:32:23,770 –> 00:32:27,090
It simply needs to be a mental
1.

510
00:32:27,650 –> 00:32:32,890
And so even when you are down in
bed, you still can leap for joy.

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00:32:35,050 –> 00:32:43,680
Jacob had to limp for the rest
of his life because he wrestled

512
00:32:43,680 –> 00:32:46,920
with an Angel.
That was a good limp.

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00:32:48,320 –> 00:32:53,840
He didn’t complain.
He was one of God’s chosen, and

514
00:32:53,840 –> 00:32:59,080
God left him a limp to remind
him of what had happened.

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00:32:59,960 –> 00:33:04,400
And so when you have problems,
God leaves you with reminders of

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00:33:04,400 –> 00:33:07,480
them.
Our hearing may go, our teeth

517
00:33:07,480 –> 00:33:12,200
may fall out.
We may we may, may be able to

518
00:33:12,200 –> 00:33:13,880
walk.
We have to use crutches or maybe

519
00:33:14,080 –> 00:33:16,040
in a wheelchair.
Maybe we can’t get out of bed.

520
00:33:16,840 –> 00:33:26,080
But just recognize the fact that
our problems are sent to us by a

521
00:33:26,080 –> 00:33:31,280
loving Father who’s preparing us
for bigger and better things.

522
00:33:32,000 –> 00:33:36,680
And so when Paul was called on
the way to Damascus, Ananias was

523
00:33:36,680 –> 00:33:40,640
to told told him that he must
learn those things which he must

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00:33:40,640 –> 00:33:45,520
suffer for my sake, said God to
Ananias about Paul.

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00:33:46,280 –> 00:33:52,960
And then you think about Jesus,
our Savior, our Lord, we’re told

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00:33:52,960 –> 00:33:58,720
that he had to learn obedience
by the things that he suffered.

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00:34:00,080 –> 00:34:04,080
He was the Son of God.
He never sinned.

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00:34:04,760 –> 00:34:08,520
We sometimes suffer because of a
sin that we’ve committed, and

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00:34:08,520 –> 00:34:13,040
sins do bring consequences.
But not all your problems are

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00:34:13,040 –> 00:34:16,520
caused by your sins.
Some of them are caused by God

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00:34:17,480 –> 00:34:21,400
helping you to want to be in the
Kingdom more than anything else

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00:34:21,400 –> 00:34:24,840
in all the world.
And so that dear sister who fell

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00:34:24,840 –> 00:34:32,320
asleep in the Lord after being
in the way for 60 years, she had

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00:34:32,840 –> 00:34:38,000
60 years of overcoming troubles.
Because everyone who is a

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00:34:38,000 –> 00:34:44,800
Christadelphian is going to have
problems promised by God,

536
00:34:44,920 –> 00:34:49,719
promised by Jesus.
Cheer up the world, you will

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00:34:49,719 –> 00:34:54,760
have troubles, but be of good
cheer, because I have overcome

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00:34:54,960 –> 00:34:59,240
the world.
So I want you to realize how

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00:34:59,240 –> 00:35:03,440
special you are.
You have come here because

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00:35:03,600 –> 00:35:07,120
you’ve been called.
There’s millions of people in

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00:35:07,120 –> 00:35:08,360
Sydney.
This room couldn’t hold

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00:35:08,360 –> 00:35:11,160
everybody who want to come here.
If all the people realize that

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00:35:11,160 –> 00:35:13,440
we have the answer to all their
problems, but they don’t believe

544
00:35:13,440 –> 00:35:15,280
that and they wouldn’t listen if
they came.

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00:35:15,840 –> 00:35:20,440
You have been called by God.
Jesus said no man can come to me

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00:35:20,440 –> 00:35:21,920
except the Father, which has set
me dry.

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00:35:22,080 –> 00:35:27,440
So you’re hand picked out of the
millions of people, no billions

548
00:35:27,480 –> 00:35:32,480
of people on this earth, how few
of us really know the true

549
00:35:32,480 –> 00:35:35,040
gospel message?
We know the planet purpose with

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00:35:35,040 –> 00:35:36,760
God.
We know what’s going to happen.

551
00:35:36,880 –> 00:35:43,920
We’re looking for Jesus.
We are so blessed and sometimes

552
00:35:43,920 –> 00:35:46,720
we take it for granted.
Yes, I’m a Christadelphian.

553
00:35:46,720 –> 00:35:49,440
I’ve been a Christadelphian for
more than 666 years.

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00:35:49,440 –> 00:35:53,440
Last July I was baptized.
So I’ve been in the way a long

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00:35:53,680 –> 00:36:03,080
time, and some people think I’m
in the way, but because I gave

556
00:36:03,080 –> 00:36:09,840
my life to God, He is directing
my paths in the way of life to

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00:36:09,840 –> 00:36:11,920
the Kingdom.
And I believe that with all my

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00:36:11,920 –> 00:36:14,800
heart.
And when I stray from the way,

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00:36:15,040 –> 00:36:18,920
He’s gently brings me back.
He’s guiding your feet.

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00:36:19,000 –> 00:36:23,400
You know God will guide your
feet, but you have to get up and

561
00:36:23,400 –> 00:36:27,800
shuffle them yourself.
You say, Oh yes, I want God to

562
00:36:27,800 –> 00:36:30,480
guide me, but I’m just sitting
back and taking it easy.

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00:36:31,200 –> 00:36:35,440
God can’t guide you if you don’t
try to get moving.

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00:36:35,680 –> 00:36:39,520
But once you’re going, God can
guide your feet in your way of

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00:36:39,520 –> 00:36:43,040
life.
So Jesus says you can’t even

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00:36:43,040 –> 00:36:46,080
come to me unless my Father has
drawn you.

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00:36:47,280 –> 00:36:50,720
So those of you who are in this
room, not baptized, you’re being

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00:36:50,720 –> 00:36:52,920
called.
You just haven’t said yes yet.

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00:36:53,840 –> 00:36:55,840
Some of you, it’s because you’re
too young.

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00:36:56,920 –> 00:36:58,200
For others, there’s other
reasons.

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00:36:58,200 –> 00:37:01,400
We don’t know what they are, but
they’ve allowed me to have a

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00:37:01,400 –> 00:37:04,760
special class, not tomorrow, but
a week from tomorrow for

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00:37:04,760 –> 00:37:07,160
everybody that’s not baptized.
If you’re baptized, you can’t

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00:37:07,160 –> 00:37:12,640
come because everybody in the
whole world that’s not baptized

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00:37:12,640 –> 00:37:16,040
is not baptized for a reason.
And if you’re not baptized,

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00:37:16,040 –> 00:37:18,760
there’s a reason.
And we want to find out what it

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00:37:18,760 –> 00:37:20,320
is.
See if we can help.

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00:37:20,800 –> 00:37:23,480
So if you’re not baptized,
please try to reserve that time

579
00:37:23,800 –> 00:37:26,720
a week from tomorrow in the
evening for that professional

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00:37:26,720 –> 00:37:30,200
class.
But the fact is you’ve been

581
00:37:30,200 –> 00:37:33,800
called or you wouldn’t even come
today even if you just came to

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00:37:33,800 –> 00:37:36,360
light day with with with with a
neighborhood of Christadelphia.

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00:37:36,680 –> 00:37:38,480
You’re hearing something maybe
you haven’t heard before.

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00:37:38,600 –> 00:37:41,320
Most of us, this is old stuff
you’re hearing.

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00:37:42,080 –> 00:37:48,760
But the point is we are being
called by God and it’s up to us

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00:37:49,880 –> 00:37:56,080
to say, yes, we may have to live
through life as a result of our

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00:37:56,360 –> 00:38:00,360
encounter with an Angel.
But you see, that’s all right.

588
00:38:00,760 –> 00:38:03,160
God didn’t promise us a bed of
roses.

589
00:38:03,720 –> 00:38:07,720
He Jesus said you will have
troubles, but be of good cheer.

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00:38:07,760 –> 00:38:14,400
I have overcome the world.
So God said to Jeremiah back in

591
00:38:14,400 –> 00:38:19,080
Jeremiah chapter one, just as
Jeremiah book begins, God says

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00:38:19,080 –> 00:38:28,360
to him, before I formed thee in
the belly, I knew thee before

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00:38:28,360 –> 00:38:34,280
thou alchemist forth of the
womb, I sanctified thee, and I

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00:38:34,280 –> 00:38:37,360
ordained thee a prophet unto the
nation.

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00:38:38,440 –> 00:38:40,800
So what’s that got to do with
us?

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00:38:41,600 –> 00:38:46,280
Well, God is telling Jeremiah
that before he was even

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00:38:46,480 –> 00:38:49,600
conceived, God knew all about
him.

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00:38:50,920 –> 00:38:54,680
And you know that’s true of you.
If you’ve been called, God knew

599
00:38:54,760 –> 00:38:58,080
you were going to be born when
you were born, before your

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00:38:58,080 –> 00:39:03,720
parents even met each other, you
were in God’s plan to be in the

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00:39:03,720 –> 00:39:08,560
Kingdom because he’s calling you
and he wants you in the Kingdom.

602
00:39:10,000 –> 00:39:13,200
And we have to respond by
saying, yes, thank you, Father,

603
00:39:14,120 –> 00:39:18,880
we want to be there.
We’re called to walk in the way

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00:39:18,880 –> 00:39:22,200
of life, and we have to know
what that way is.

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00:39:22,200 –> 00:39:27,120
And then we have to get up
moving and go that way.

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00:39:28,160 –> 00:39:31,760
Now Jesus warned us that the way
would not be easy.

607
00:39:32,760 –> 00:39:36,400
In Matthew 7 he says enter by
the narrow gate, for the gate is

608
00:39:36,400 –> 00:39:38,720
wide and the way is easy.
That leads to destruction.

609
00:39:39,120 –> 00:39:41,320
Those that enter in by it are
many.

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00:39:42,640 –> 00:39:44,480
You have very good roads here in
Australia.

611
00:39:44,520 –> 00:39:46,920
I’m, I’m amazed you’re wrong.
Drive on the left side of the

612
00:39:46,920 –> 00:39:52,560
road, but you have very good
roads to go on and they’re busy

613
00:39:52,920 –> 00:39:57,160
traffic everywhere.
But when you choose to go in the

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00:39:57,160 –> 00:40:02,240
way of life, you’re going to
turn off the big motorways,

615
00:40:02,760 –> 00:40:05,920
you’re going to take an off ramp
from the road where everybody

616
00:40:05,920 –> 00:40:08,800
else is going.
And you’re going to take that

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00:40:08,800 –> 00:40:16,440
long, narrow, winding uphill
road to the Kingdom, for the

618
00:40:16,440 –> 00:40:22,720
gate is narrow and the way is
hard that leads to life.

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00:40:23,680 –> 00:40:27,840
And those that find it are few
few that be the find it says the

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00:40:27,840 –> 00:40:32,840
King James.
So this these talks are about

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00:40:32,840 –> 00:40:36,640
the way of life.
And we want you this weekend to

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00:40:36,640 –> 00:40:42,400
totally rededicate yourself that
you are in the way and you’re

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00:40:42,400 –> 00:40:46,200
going to keep moving in the way.
You may have to take baby steps,

624
00:40:46,400 –> 00:40:52,120
but don’t sit down, Stay on your
feet and keep moving toward the

625
00:40:52,120 –> 00:40:54,960
Kingdom.
It’s not an easy Rd.

626
00:40:54,960 –> 00:40:56,440
God didn’t promise it would be
easy.

627
00:40:57,080 –> 00:41:00,280
He just promised that He would
help you if you would try.

628
00:41:02,320 –> 00:41:06,280
But some people won’t try.
Can you imagine going back to

629
00:41:06,280 –> 00:41:11,640
that example of the Olympics?
In the morning of the big race,

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00:41:12,600 –> 00:41:17,160
our star hurtler went to the
coach and he says, coach, I

631
00:41:17,160 –> 00:41:19,160
don’t feel good today.
You know, there are days when we

632
00:41:19,160 –> 00:41:21,440
don’t feel good.
It’s true of all of us.

633
00:41:22,040 –> 00:41:24,400
I don’t think I want to try to
ride.

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00:41:26,680 –> 00:41:30,840
You spent a lifetime getting
ready to compete for Australia

635
00:41:30,840 –> 00:41:33,440
in the Olympics and you don’t
feel good and you’re not going

636
00:41:33,440 –> 00:41:35,760
to try.
That would drive the coach

637
00:41:35,760 –> 00:41:39,360
crazy.
You get in there and do the best

638
00:41:39,360 –> 00:41:41,400
you can.
Well, I don’t feel good, coach.

639
00:41:43,360 –> 00:41:46,960
We don’t always feel good.
We don’t always have energy, we

640
00:41:46,960 –> 00:41:50,240
don’t always know exactly what
to do.

641
00:41:50,600 –> 00:41:53,240
So we ask God to help us.
He will guide your steps.

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00:41:53,640 –> 00:41:58,520
Trust in the Lord with all my
might and lean out under their

643
00:41:58,520 –> 00:42:01,400
own understanding and all your
ways.

644
00:42:01,400 –> 00:42:06,760
Acknowledge Him, that’s God, and
He will direct your paths, but

645
00:42:06,760 –> 00:42:08,960
He won’t direct it if you won’t
try.

646
00:42:10,360 –> 00:42:15,680
And so we who are baptized have
already made that commitment.

647
00:42:15,800 –> 00:42:18,840
On the day of our baptism, we
gave our life to the Lord.

648
00:42:19,720 –> 00:42:23,400
Now, unfortunately, all of us
have fallen back, taking steps

649
00:42:23,400 –> 00:42:27,200
in the wrong direction since our
baptism, because none of us are

650
00:42:27,200 –> 00:42:30,120
perfect.
But aren’t you thankful for

651
00:42:30,120 –> 00:42:32,920
forgiveness?
Because if it weren’t for

652
00:42:32,920 –> 00:42:38,160
forgiveness, none of us could be
saved.

653
00:42:40,080 –> 00:42:45,200
And so, brothers and sisters,
you are now in the way of life.

654
00:42:46,280 –> 00:42:51,400
You who are not baptized, you
now know about the way of life.

655
00:42:51,960 –> 00:42:55,280
And you know it’s the only right
way.

656
00:42:55,640 –> 00:42:59,680
There’s lots of wrong ways, but
there’s only one right way.

657
00:43:00,480 –> 00:43:06,760
And God is inviting you to
participate and offering you the

658
00:43:06,760 –> 00:43:11,840
greatest reward that’s ever been
offered to human beings, to live

659
00:43:11,840 –> 00:43:15,360
and reign on this earth with the
Lord Jesus Christ forever.

660
00:43:16,760 –> 00:43:23,080
And people say no, if, if we
could just paint for the people.

661
00:43:23,080 –> 00:43:27,120
We’re trying to teach the truth
to the picture of the goal of

662
00:43:27,120 –> 00:43:30,480
the Kingdom.
We would be drawn to it.

663
00:43:30,480 –> 00:43:33,160
It’s a wild horses couldn’t keep
you out of the way.

664
00:43:33,160 –> 00:43:35,960
Let me get baptized.
What we’re fighting in the

665
00:43:35,960 –> 00:43:42,200
mission field and it’s it’s sad
in a way that we have to go so

666
00:43:42,200 –> 00:43:44,760
far.
It’s God is working and he’s

667
00:43:44,760 –> 00:43:47,960
bring calling people out of the
Gentiles for his name in all

668
00:43:47,960 –> 00:43:51,640
these countries where there were
no Christadelphians a few years

669
00:43:51,640 –> 00:43:53,880
ago.
And now there’s lots of

670
00:43:53,880 –> 00:43:56,840
Christadelphians in India, in
China.

671
00:43:57,040 –> 00:44:00,840
My grandson has been a
missionary in China for the last

672
00:44:00,840 –> 00:44:02,400
year.
He went over there and learned

673
00:44:02,400 –> 00:44:05,920
Mandarin and he was doing
actually doing translating in

674
00:44:05,920 –> 00:44:11,520
Mandarin in China and, and just
a young boy, but he’s on fire

675
00:44:11,520 –> 00:44:15,320
for the truth.
But you see when you talk to

676
00:44:15,320 –> 00:44:18,800
your neighbors about this.
Oh, what’s the telly?

677
00:44:18,800 –> 00:44:21,720
I’m going to the ball game.
We’re we’re having a card party

678
00:44:21,720 –> 00:44:22,680
tonight.
We’re doing this.

679
00:44:22,680 –> 00:44:27,080
We’re doing everybody in the
world around you probably is

680
00:44:27,080 –> 00:44:31,320
crowding God out of their life
and they’ve chosen the way of

681
00:44:31,320 –> 00:44:35,520
death and they’re going to get
what they chose.

682
00:44:36,560 –> 00:44:41,200
I know that you have labor
unions in Australia, we have

683
00:44:41,200 –> 00:44:44,360
them in America.
And the people who belong to a

684
00:44:44,360 –> 00:44:48,880
union often times go on strike
and they get little signs and

685
00:44:48,880 –> 00:44:52,400
they walk up and down picketing.
They want more money.

686
00:44:53,320 –> 00:44:57,280
Well, now you have earned
something and you’re going to

687
00:44:57,280 –> 00:45:01,000
get it.
And you don’t have to pick it to

688
00:45:01,000 –> 00:45:03,440
get it.
You’re you earned it.

689
00:45:04,600 –> 00:45:12,840
You’re going to get it.
The wages of sin is death, and

690
00:45:12,840 –> 00:45:15,800
nobody has ever gotten out of
this life alive.

691
00:45:17,400 –> 00:45:21,960
Nobody ever got out of this
life, not even the Lord Jesus

692
00:45:21,960 –> 00:45:26,880
Christ.
But he did not sin, so the grave

693
00:45:26,880 –> 00:45:30,680
could not hold Him.
And because of Christ and His

694
00:45:31,440 –> 00:45:37,600
sacrifice for us, if we commit
our life to Him, the grave will

695
00:45:37,600 –> 00:45:41,480
not hold us either.
So whether we live, we live unto

696
00:45:41,480 –> 00:45:42,800
the Lord.
Whether we die, we die to the

697
00:45:42,800 –> 00:45:44,360
Lord.
Whether we live or die, we are

698
00:45:44,360 –> 00:45:49,320
the Lords and we are in the way
of life, and we’re thankful to

699
00:45:49,320 –> 00:45:51,920
be in that way.
We’re thankful that we’ve come

700
00:45:51,920 –> 00:45:54,640
together this afternoon to talk
about this way.

701
00:45:54,640 –> 00:45:59,200
We have two more classes today
and then some more tomorrow, but

702
00:45:59,200 –> 00:46:03,560
I just want to thank you for
inviting me to come and share

703
00:46:03,560 –> 00:46:05,920
thoughts with you.
I realize it’s not something

704
00:46:05,920 –> 00:46:09,840
you’ve never heard before, but I
hope that it will drive home

705
00:46:10,600 –> 00:46:14,360
this reaffirmation in your mind.
This is the right thing.

706
00:46:14,360 –> 00:46:16,240
And I am going to resist
temptation.

707
00:46:16,400 –> 00:46:18,840
I am going to give my life the
Lord.

708
00:46:18,840 –> 00:46:21,800
I’m going to be able to say no
to the problems, and I’m going

709
00:46:21,800 –> 00:46:25,440
to be able to accept the
problems that I have and rejoice

710
00:46:25,440 –> 00:46:28,160
that God loves me enough to give
me these problems.

711
00:46:29,560 –> 00:46:35,880
So be willing to turn off the
Broadway to the narrow way that

712
00:46:35,880 –> 00:46:42,080
leads to life eternal.
God promises to wipe away all

713
00:46:42,080 –> 00:46:48,640
tears from our eyes.
God gave us tear ducts on

714
00:46:48,640 –> 00:46:50,520
purpose, but in the Kingdom we
won’t need them.

715
00:46:52,120 –> 00:46:57,000
But Jesus wept, it’s OK to weep
when you’re having problems, but

716
00:46:57,000 –> 00:47:01,000
then you have to get a hold of
yourself and say, yes, but I, I

717
00:47:01,000 –> 00:47:03,840
had this problem because God,
you’re testing me and you’re

718
00:47:03,840 –> 00:47:06,000
preparing me for something
better and, and, and I can

719
00:47:06,000 –> 00:47:08,440
handle it.
Don’t say you can’t, because you

720
00:47:08,440 –> 00:47:12,040
can, because the time is coming.
There should be no more death.

721
00:47:12,040 –> 00:47:15,280
Neither sorrow nor crying.
Either shall be any more pain.

722
00:47:15,440 –> 00:47:18,440
Can you imagine that?
Almost all of us experience

723
00:47:18,440 –> 00:47:21,400
pain.
Some of us are in pain all the

724
00:47:21,400 –> 00:47:23,160
time.
Pain is very debilitating.

725
00:47:23,600 –> 00:47:27,120
It’s very hard to keep a stiff
upper lip when you’re hurting

726
00:47:27,120 –> 00:47:29,280
all over.
And that’s true of some of you

727
00:47:29,280 –> 00:47:30,720
in this audience.
You’re hurting.

728
00:47:31,800 –> 00:47:35,760
Thank God for your hurdles.
God is allowing this hurt.

729
00:47:36,040 –> 00:47:39,120
If you can get medical care that
will help you do it, do it.

730
00:47:39,520 –> 00:47:44,280
It’s not wrong, but what you
have and you cannot change

731
00:47:44,280 –> 00:47:50,200
except and thank God for it.
And so we can bring our first

732
00:47:50,200 –> 00:47:52,840
class to a close and you’re
going to be giving a little

733
00:47:52,840 –> 00:47:56,880
handout and the brethren, we’re
going to be passing those out

734
00:47:56,880 –> 00:47:59,960
now.
And I got one in my pocket, but

735
00:47:59,960 –> 00:48:03,560
I don’t want to deal with it.
It’s are they ready to go now?

736
00:48:05,960 –> 00:48:07,520
When you see it, you won’t know
what it is.

737
00:48:07,520 –> 00:48:13,640
So I got to explain it to you.
It’s unpronounceable.

738
00:48:15,160 –> 00:48:18,920
I’d like to tell you it’s my
business card, but it doesn’t

739
00:48:18,920 –> 00:48:20,560
have a phone number.
So there’s no way you can

740
00:48:20,560 –> 00:48:26,800
contact me if you’re anymore can
pass out from the back and we

741
00:48:29,200 –> 00:48:35,720
we’re going real soon.
I I want you to put this up card

742
00:48:35,720 –> 00:48:41,000
in your pocket because I want
you to look at it and be

743
00:48:41,000 –> 00:48:46,920
reminded of what is telling you
and what is telling you that’s

744
00:48:46,920 –> 00:48:49,400
an acronym of a bunch of
letters.

745
00:48:49,880 –> 00:48:53,440
Thank you very much.
And I don’t know if you know

746
00:48:53,440 –> 00:48:59,320
what they are, but now you will
because I carry these cards with

747
00:48:59,320 –> 00:49:01,400
me.
And when somebody, when I do

748
00:49:01,400 –> 00:49:05,440
something wrong, not if because
I do do things wrong, people do

749
00:49:05,440 –> 00:49:08,760
make the mistakes I do.
And I’ll just hand them one of

750
00:49:08,760 –> 00:49:10,600
my cards.
Yeah.

751
00:49:10,600 –> 00:49:15,840
Tell you what, it helps.
Even if your boss is jumping on

752
00:49:15,840 –> 00:49:18,480
you because you did something
wrong, just hand him one of your

753
00:49:18,480 –> 00:49:21,200
cards.
You can make thousands of these

754
00:49:21,200 –> 00:49:24,320
are easy to make.
And it stands for this.

755
00:49:25,360 –> 00:49:30,640
Please be patient with me.
God is not finished with me yet.

756
00:49:33,080 –> 00:49:35,600
And that’s the good news about
our way of life.

757
00:49:36,760 –> 00:49:38,600
God is not finished with you
yet.

758
00:49:40,000 –> 00:49:42,320
He’s got big plans for you and
His Kingdom.

759
00:49:43,240 –> 00:49:47,000
He’s called you to be steadfast
and unmovable.

760
00:49:47,000 –> 00:49:50,840
I’m always about in His work.
He wants you to hang in there

761
00:49:51,520 –> 00:49:55,040
and jump those hurdles and stop
complaining about them.

762
00:49:55,920 –> 00:49:57,840
The children of Israel were
always complaining.

763
00:49:57,840 –> 00:49:59,720
They even complained about the
food.

764
00:50:00,080 –> 00:50:03,120
They ate angels food and
complained about it.

765
00:50:05,560 –> 00:50:13,240
Be thankful that God loves you
enough children #1 called you #2

766
00:50:13,880 –> 00:50:16,600
giving you some troubles, some
hurdles.

767
00:50:16,600 –> 00:50:20,280
Be of good cheer, said Jesus in
the world.

768
00:50:20,760 –> 00:50:25,720
You’re going to have troubles,
but I have overcome the world,

769
00:50:25,720 –> 00:50:30,560
said Jesus.
And the good news is, you can

770
00:50:30,560 –> 00:50:46,830
too.
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771
00:50:46,830 –> 00:50:48,430
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772
00:50:49,270 –> 00:50:51,710
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773
00:50:51,710 –> 00:50:54,070
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00:50:54,070 –> 00:50:55,830
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