Anthony Whitehorn – Class 3: Transformation: How Can I?

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This is the 2006 Palm Springs.
Bible school brother, Anthony

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white horns.
Topic is be transformed.

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The title for his third class is
transformation.

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How can I well good morning
brothers and sisters that’s

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great I can just keep on saying
that and yeah it’s lovely.

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Thank you it’s really good.
I’m gonna take you home with me.

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You’re great.
Since morning, we’re looking at

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transformation.
How can I?

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And that just have a little bit
of a resume a, as to what we

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considered so far this week on
the first day is you remember,

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we looked at transformation?
What is it?

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And we recognize that
transformation is a change in

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internal change, but a
fundamental change from the

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caterpillar to the butterfly.
It’s not a conformation, it’s

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not the change in outwardly
things.

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What good is interest is how
we’re changing inside.

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And the question is, Have we
changed from the time of our

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baptism to.
Now are we different people?

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And that’s the challenge and
day, two, we looked at why we

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should change.
And why should we?

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Because I’ve got it today.
We’re full.

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Hey, we’re full for this tape.
This is a glass of holding up.

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We’re full of are naturally and
our responsibility is to

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displace.
That are How with the fruit of

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the spirit?
So naturally, we are full of the

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nature of man and our
responsibility is to displace it

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with the fruit of the spirit.
And now today is you can see how

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can we do that.
That is a real challenge, isn’t

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it runs?
So what it is relative, why we

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need to do it, but how how can
we go through this process of

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transformation?
God has given us a each with a

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period of time on this Earth
with the responsibility to

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transform and so in the next and
I promise it will be 40 minutes.

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I went on a long time yesterday,
I never do that, I really got

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carried away, I’m sorry.
Free until today.

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We’re going to the next 40
minutes to look at how can I

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transform?
I want to start off by telling

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you a little story about
something that happened to me.

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It was around about or 15 years
ago now and I was out with my

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boss in the car in London and I
was driving along.

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He was sitting next to me and we
came up to some traffic lights,

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you calm traffic lights.
You’re good good.

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It’s like terms of.
I need a translator at you,

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don’t I?
So we came up.

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Traffic lights and I came and I
stopped in front of me was a

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motorbike and motorbikes
stopped.

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And I stopped talking to my boss
in the car and I looked up and a

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guy in the motorbike I lost it.
I looked at my boss, I looked

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again at the guy on the bike.
I’m thinking, oh my dear, and it

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was like struggling on this
fight.

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We better go help him to get out
the car ran over, pulled up the

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bike and pull him up and he was
all a bit shaken.

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And I said, are you all right?
He said yeah, yeah.

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So what’s going on?
And he said you’re not going to

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believe this.
It is absolutely true.

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So you’re not going to believe
this he said, but today is the

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first day that I’ve ridden my
motorbike without the side.

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I’d car that is certainly true
that and I think itself and its

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times going on, think toss-up I
bet I bet that guy has now

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learned that when he stopped
he’s got to put his foot down

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but there’s a lesson there isn’t
there?

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And the lesson is This is that
we’ve got to learn different

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activities.
Because we’ve been riding along

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with a sidecar and now we’ve got
to actually stretch out and put

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our foot down and that’s what
we’re going to be doing this

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morning.
We’re going to be thinking about

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learning to do different
activities.

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And there are two certain tools
to assist us in this process of

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transformation.
I have like over Tuesday

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afternoon syndrome and the
reason I call it the Tuesday

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afternoon syndrome is because
choose the afternoon isn’t

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halfway through the week and
it’s still a little bit too

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early on in the week and the
weekend is a little bit far away

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both sides.
So Tuesday afternoon up a little

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bit.
And the challenge for me on

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Tuesday afternoon is to try and
think spiritually because I

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don’t have those injections,
quite some Wrigley on the

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Tuesday afternoon as I’ve had
perhaps at the weekend.

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And I need some of those tools
to assist me to try and be much

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more like, Jesus on a Tuesday
afternoon, and that’s what we’re

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gonna try and think about
therefore, in this

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transformation.
And how can I, I want you to

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think about the situation, the
US Olympic Committee.

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What they have done is they’ve
looked at everybody in the whole

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of the US.
And what they have done is

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they’ve taken all that all
Canada and they what they have

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done is the Olympic Committee of
your country have actually bed

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in all the body mass details,
all the muscular structure, all

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the bone composition of
absolutely everybody in your

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country.
And the phone rings in your

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house and you go over and you
pick up the phone and it is the

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US Olympic Committee or your
country’s Olympic Committee and

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they open up.
And they tell you that they’ve

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analyzed all the data that there
is on everybody in your country.

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And you, you have actually been
chosen from all this data to

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bring home the gold medal in the
marathon in the next Olympic

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Games.
Yes.

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You think have you got the right
number to know?

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We’ve got the right number but
it’s absurd with analyze.

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Absolutely everything.
You put the phone down, you

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thinking, well, that’s actually
quite incredible.

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And you sort of have this
Vision, don’t you have of

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running through the Finish Line?
Everybody cheering going back to

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your hometown and being taken
around them on it and an open

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Deck bar, some people waving at
you and cheering, and that is

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all fantastic stuff for you.
Amazingly, the whole purpose of

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your life in the next two years
is to focus on on that marathon

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in the next two years.
And then you think again, you

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think hold on one moment.
I can’t run a marathon even if I

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really, really tried.
I can’t run a marathon.

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And that’s the challenge.
The challenges is that to run a

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marathon.
You’ve got a train.

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Not merely try.
And that’s what we have got to

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do in.
Our marathon is trained, not

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just try, it says this in in
Timothy, let me read it to you.

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It says have nothing to do with
Godless myths, and old wives,

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tales, rather, train yourself to
be Godly.

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And that’s what we are here to
do in terms of our

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transformation.
It is a process of training and

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that’s why I chose today’s
readings of 1 Corinthians 9

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which just turn it to it with
me, please.

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Because we are athletes.
We may not feel like athletes

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sometimes, but we are athletes
in a race and 1 Corinthians 9.

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Says this.
And I’m going to become The New

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International Version, if I may
because it picks out a word

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there, which I want to use
verse. 24 says, do not know that

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in a race, all the runners run
but only one gets the prize run

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in such a way as to get the
prize, everyone who competes in

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the game’s goes into strict
training, they do it to get a

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crown crown that will not last
but we do it to get a crown that

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will last forever.
That’s what we do.

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We go into strict training.
Ting, this life of

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transformation is about
training.

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They were referring to hear
about the isthmian games.

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The isthmian games was similar
to the Olympic Games and around

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this region at that time in Asia
Minor and what would happen is

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that the competitors had to go
into 10 months worth of

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training.
And if they didn’t go into

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those, 10 months worth of
training, they were actually

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disqualified.
You had to train in order to

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even qualify for the isthmian
games and that’s the you and me

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as well.
We are in a period of training.

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But what are we training?
Because I tell you what, that’s

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what we need to have this vision
of as well for the training, I

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would suggest that you do for a
marathon is slightly different

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from the training that you do
for a, a pie-eating contest.

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For instance, they are
completely different.

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And what are we training for?
We are training to be more like

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Jesus.
We are fulfilling the purpose

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for which we were made.
So transformation is not merely

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about trying, it’s about
training.

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And the Latin word for training
is disciplina.

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And from that word we get the
word disciplines so training

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requires a set of disciplines.
Now I think that the word

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disciplines has some very
unfortunate connotations because

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disciplines we think of being
very rigid and very mechanical

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but that’s because we focus on
the disciplines themselves as

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opposed to focusing on the
purpose itself.

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So we need to think about the
purpose for which we are

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training and have some
disciplines trained ourselves

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into doing certain things that
will help us transform because

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it’s not just by really gritting
our teeth that we’re going to

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transform.
We’re going to have to train as

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well.
But spiritual transformation.

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Just remember is not about what
we do.

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It’s about why we do it.
That’s the inner change.

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Okay, but I want to ask you this
question, who’s in control of

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that training, who is in control
of your training, and your

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transformation in that training?
As I look at Philippians, And

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book of Philippians and we’ll be
looking at chapter 2.

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And let’s look at verse 12.
Wherefore my beloved.

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As you have always obeyed, not
as in my presence only but now

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much more in my absence work out
your salvation with fear and

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trembling are, is down to us,
isn’t it?

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So it says, work out your
salvation with fear and

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trembling No.
It’s not visit State work.

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For your salvation doesn’t say
work at your salvation.

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It says, work out your salvation
and then actually literally

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means finish complete your
salvation how humbly with fear

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and trembling you see it’s not
you who necessarily does it

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because so often we quote verse
12 and we ignore verse 13 for

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it.
Is God.

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Which worketh in you both to
Will and to do of his good

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pleasure.
He is the Potter.

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We are the clay.
We just make ourselves available

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for him to work in us.
It is not us who worked at our

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Salvation, we just complete it.
It is, God working in us to

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transform us.
What does it say in Romans, let

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me just read this to you in
Romans verse 10 8:10.

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I read it to you.
It says this.

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And if Christ be in you, the
body is dead because of sin.

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But the spirit is life, because
of righteousness for, as many as

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are led by the spirit of God,
they are the sons of God, the

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spirit of God works in us to
enable the fruit of the spirit

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to be shown.
And it is our responsibility to

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allow the It to work in US.
You see?

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Transformation is the work of
God.

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And we allow God, invite God ask
God to come and work in us to

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work out our Salvation humbly
with fear and trembling.

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So how does that work?
I liken it to the contrast

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between a motor boat and a
Sailing Boat.

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With a motorboat, what you do is
when you turn the rudder, the

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turn, the wheels and it when you
turn the wheel, the boat goes in

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that direction.
When you put your foot on the

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accelerator or whatever you do
the boat, I don’t hear do about

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you move.
The accelerator, the boat goes

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faster.
It’s all very rich, completely

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responsive.
You’re completely in control.

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That’s not how it is.
I would suggest with our

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transformation, I would like an
hour transformation to be like a

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Sailing Boat.
It is our responsibility to

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Hoist.
The sails is our responsibility

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to steer.
The rudder is our responsibility

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to trim the sails, but we are
totally dependent on the Wind.

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We can discipline ourselves to
spiritual practices but we

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cannot engineer them.
Now, that’s quite a challenge.

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Isn’t it?
For when you think about it, the

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experienced sailor.
What does he do?

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The experienced sailor?
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knows, and he can look at the
sky and he’s been out there a

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lot, and he’s done it a lot, and
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And he knows exactly which
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come from.
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trimmed properly and the rudder
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direction.
That’s our responsibility.

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And then it is God who works in
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to his good pleasure.
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we should be looking for those
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acting and working in our lives.
I would suggest Moses when he

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was walking along.
It says, beautiful words is as

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he’s walking along in the
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looking after his
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He turned a side, it says
beautiful phrase, he turned

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aside.
How often do you think that he

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saw a bush smoldering?
How is the definitely quite a

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quite a few times?
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aside.
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remarkable now that happens.
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regularly and we have a
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For God is at work in our lives.
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transformed.
We must be responsive to see God

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working in our lives.
The disciples.

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That we are and we are actors
out of disciplines should create

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opportunities in our attitudes,
and our motives, for God to

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work, and here are just two
tools that I would like to

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consider.
We look at just two tools that

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this morning that we can use in
our training routine and that

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sort of helps us trim the sails,
and steer the rudder to enable

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the wind.
To blow.

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The first is this one, when I
get home every evening, I get

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home.
Say hi to Sally.

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Here’s kids, and think, and I
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The first thing I do, is I go to
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I click through the post and the
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and there’s and the ones that
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They don’t want to stop at and I
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Are you going to talk to me?
I’m reading this.

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Can’t see me all day, isn’t it?
It is so fascinating, reading

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letters, particularly the
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Why?
Because their personal to you,

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And so is this one.
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personally to you to me.
God is communicating directly to

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me.
It’s a personal letter to me

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about him.
And it’s a wonderful wonderful

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book.
And the more that I discover

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aspects of God in this book from
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about that yesterday that agape,
love is head and heart, it’s not

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just head and it’s not just hard
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I understand him, the more I
love him, the more I realize

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that I want to have a
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that’s what Christianity is.
Of course, it’s a relationship.

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I I was running a workshop at a
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have in the UK called holder
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Some of you may have heard of
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It’s advertising Crystal Kim,
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there and I was, it was on the
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seven churches.
And I wanted at, once you’ve

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gone through the letters, I just
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what letter would use us, right
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letter to the christadelphians.
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And I wanted us to personalize a
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First thing you do is write down
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condoned for.
We will be well done, you are

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really good.
I ran this Workshop 9 times in

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total. and on every single
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9 workshops said that the thing
that Jesus would write to the

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christadelphians about saying,
well, done is that we are a

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people of the book and we are
it’s a wonderful gift that we

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have.
And this Fellowship that we have

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is marvelous in that we focus on
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And we would be congratulated,
anybody come as for that.

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Recognizing the beauty of the
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The question here is, why do we
do Bible study?

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Why do we use this tool?
This discipline of looking at

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the scriptures?
Is it because we want to get

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100% in the Heavenly entrance
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You see, I don’t think it is.
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scriptures is about the renewing
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Not the acquisition information.
It’s about changing the mind.

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Not changing the brain.
And I am the same.

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I do the same thing.
I have a lot of treatments for

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those people who know their
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really good, but the key for you
and me, is, are we putting it

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into practice?
And that’s what, that’s what

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Jesus looked at.
I tell you what the Pharisees

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actually knew their law really
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But the amazing thing is, is
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criticize, the Pharisees for
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And they had many of them.
But he certainly criticize them

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for their wrong way of life.
Would you tell me to Timothy

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chapter 3?
It’s a really well-known

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Passage.
And it’s a challenge actually

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this one 2, Timothy chapter 3
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For all scripture is
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So, let me do all scripture is
given by inspiration of God, and

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is profitable for Doctrine for
reproof for correction for

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instruction in righteousness.
It goes on that.

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The man of God may be perfect
thoroughly furnished unto all

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good works.
This is a that he can be really

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well-informed.
He says we read our scriptures.

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Why?
So that we can be thoroughly

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equipped for every good work.
It is no good.

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Just to accumulate the knowledge
if we’re not going to put it

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into practice because that way
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We’ve just accumulated
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So when we read our scriptures
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goodness, naturally comes out
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We are displacing the natural
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GK Chesterton was a famous
Christian writer, and he was

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interviewed once and they asked
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You, you are on a desert island.
And you are on this desert

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island and you mr.
Jefferson who is a Christian?

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You can have any book.
You like any book at all?

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Yeah, No Holds Barred here.
Any book you like you’re on this

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desert island.
It’s a bit our now he’s going to

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choose and the obvious isn’t it?
And GK testing thought for a

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while he turned around and said,
you know, the book that I would

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like if I was on this desert
island is Thomas his guide to

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practical Shipbuilding.
You see, he was chaplain desert

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island.
He didn’t want to be informed.

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He didn’t want to be
entertained.

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He wanted to be saved.
As I say, you hear me.

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We are on an island.
And this book here is equipping

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us for every good work.
Not accumulating knowledge.

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It is a practical.
A dynamic book.

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And that’s the challenge for you
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So when we take on all this
information, how is it changing

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my life?
How is it changing my motives?

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Not, how much am I learning?
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to me through the Bible.
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That’s the first tool.
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God is training and talking to
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I, we may may be known as a
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I suggest that I’m not
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Prayer.
I pray a lot when things aren’t

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going very well.
My prayer times, go like that in

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times of crisis.
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really rely on my own strength
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really discovered the real power
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What does James say?
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a righteous man, availeth much
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This we are.
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If you remember, I said in my
first talk is being put right

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with God.
We’ve come from wrath down there

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to Grace up here.
So we have been put right with

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God.
We have been Justified with God,

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the effectual fervent prayer of
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And I don’t do that.
How powerful is prayer.

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Don’t look it now, but in
Revelation, chapter 8 is a

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master of the situation.
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And I miss it.
I missed it until quite

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recently.
I was reading it and I was quite

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surprised.
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comes forward and offers in the
golden censer incense of the

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prayers of the Saints.
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in Revelation, 8 there follows
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Earth. as if it were a response
to all the Press, what’s the

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lesson there?
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firstly?
Heaven comes to a standstill

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when we pray.
That’s quite nice thing to think

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about, isn’t it?
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we pray. my children, I love my
children, desperately And when

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they ask me things and four
things, I want to give it, give

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it to them without spoiling
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I want to give them things and
there are many parents in here

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in this room here today and I
know you’re the same That you

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want to give things to your
children when they ask you for

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things because you love them.
I think I know God has given us

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a families in order to
understand more, the

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relationship that we have with
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I understand much more about God
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And that’s the beauty of
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understand.
God better, I have personally

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found by virtue of that.
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us things when we ask for asking
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So, what are some points on
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The first point is, this parrot,
prayer is powerful brother.

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Bob, he came to Bible school,
didn’t you?

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Bob must be about three years
ago in in the UK.

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As I said, we don’t have many
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I think was, was one of the
bout, the three that we have and

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Bob came to speak there and Bob,
you must have talked about

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prayer that Bible.
I know you did I wasn’t there.

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But Sally my wife went.
The reason I know this is

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because both handed out a little
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It could be done this with you,
I’m sure.

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Sure.
Yeah, he has as me.

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Yeah.
He just he just begun to take

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the same stuff but until you and
I just need carpet and he handed

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out a prayer list with 12
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And what you had to do at that
brother School is right down

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1250.
Going to pray about.

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I didn’t know this was going on
because I wasn’t at the Bible

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School a year later, I couldn’t
find my Barbara’s.

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I picked up Sally’s.
I opened it up and this piece of

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paper fell out.
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And there were 12 names on
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And I read them.
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staggered because something had
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those people, which is quite
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That is the power of Prayer. and
I don’t think that I have

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properly understood that all
realize that So that’s my first

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point on prayer.
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The very first prayer that is
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I think was probably offered by
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he was talking to God.
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do that.
How about God, how about if

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there were 50 people?
Okay.

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So God 50.
Yeah, it I’ll accept 50.

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So God, how about if 40 people
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If 40 people work?
We’re okay?

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Would you say 40 people?
Yes, it got up.

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I’d say 40.
Okay.

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Well, how about, how about 30
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How about if there were 30
people got would you say 30?

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Yes, it’s gonna take 30.
What about 20?

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Good would you say 20 people in
Sodom and Gomorrah so it’s 20

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good people.
Yes ago I’ll say 20.

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Got it would just 10 people in
Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Would you say 10 people?
Yes, ago, I’d say 10 people.

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If there were 10 people could
people have I’d say the whole

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city.
He negotiated with God.

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But he believed that his power
is prayer, was powerful and made

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a difference.
And he knew God.

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He wasn’t irreverent.
He was humbly.

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Talking to God and he knew his
position.

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But I put it to you, in his
personal prayer in his personal

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prayer.
He was in a way in persent, but

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he was persistent and he was
very natural.

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And I don’t want you to
misunderstand some of those

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things, but that’s what God
wants.

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I think that God wants us to be
persistent.

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He absolutely wants us to be
natural.

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And this is our personal prayers
personally.

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I find it very hard actually to
give a public prayer.

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Think that’s a really difficult
thing to do in my personal

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prayers.
He wants me to talk to him.

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In a very close relationship.
Just like Abraham did.

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So that’s my second point on
prayer that I’ve learned from

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the scriptures.
And my third Point, what do we

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pray for?
What should we pray for my

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prayers?
Are a whole long list of asking.

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As a little bit of a thank you
in there.

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And sometimes I must admit, I
don’t wanna get into the

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discipline of saying.
I’m just going to give a

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thank-you prayer.
I give the thank you prayer.

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A little bit later either.
Then I’ll have to be asking

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prayer after that.
So it is something that we get

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into.
It’s a discipline in the way

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that we pray, but there’s always
a gap as well.

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Whatever prayer that I pray.
Personally.

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On my own, there’s always a gap
between what I’m supposed to

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pray for and what I’m actually
thinking.

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You might have the same
sometimes my mind does wander

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off.
I’m not very good.

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And I thought about this and I
prayed about it and I sort of

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come to this conclusion, that
actually, perhaps I should be

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praying for what is on my mind.
Nehemiah did when he stood

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before the king.
He just offered that quick

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00:34:37,699 –> 00:34:41,500
prayer.
Because that was what was on his

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mind.
Moses, did he wants a proper job

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00:34:44,400 –> 00:34:47,900
description?
Even in lie, jadid, evening lie,

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didn’t like people calling him
names.

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I came.
He was going bald.

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I have some some understanding
of that.

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So pray, what is on your mind?
And that’s my third point lay

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before him.
What is in us?

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Not what ought to be in us.
It’s a personal thing.

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It’s a relationship.
A personal relationship with

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God.
And my fourth, and final point

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on prayer, is this one prayer is
all about speaking, isn’t it?

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No, prayer is all about
listening.

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It absolutely throughout the
Scriptures.

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It seems true to me.
But God will always always

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answer prayer.
He will always say either.

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Yes.
No, or wait.

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Those are always what God will
say.

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He will never ever ignore us.
But how does God answer those

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prayers?
Well, he asked the prayers like

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this.
He answers our prayers for us to

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be listening.
My son James when he was

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studying for his exams, he was
struggling with his chemistry.

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Now, my brother-in-law is a
chemistry teacher and I said to

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him, I said to James James, why
don’t you go and phone Uncle?

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00:36:29,600 –> 00:36:35,100
Malcolm your uncle, who’s this
chemistry teacher and and he’ll

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00:36:35,100 –> 00:36:38,700
help you and James said, I don’t
want to go and find him.

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So, why not?
The reason is he doesn’t give me

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00:36:43,600 –> 00:36:46,600
the answer, he is keeping ask me
more questions.

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As a good teacher, isn’t it?
For those of you who are

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teachers, you know, he’s keeping
asking that questions.

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Actually what he is, a great
teacher.

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When we ask him questions, he
asked questions back of us.

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And that way we learn So prayer
is about listening.

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And seeing God, active in our
lives.

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So what have we learned this
morning in how, what tools can

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wheeler, can we use
transformation?

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00:37:26,300 –> 00:37:30,200
How can we transform practically
in our everyday life?

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00:37:30,200 –> 00:37:33,600
We depreciated what it was.
What is transformation we

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00:37:33,600 –> 00:37:36,300
appreciated.
As to why we should do it, the

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00:37:36,300 –> 00:37:39,500
displacement Theory.
So how can we do it?

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00:37:43,800 –> 00:37:47,300
God, does the changing we do the
training?

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00:37:48,900 –> 00:37:53,700
we set our sails, we trim the
sails, we move the rudder, he

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00:37:53,700 –> 00:37:57,800
blows the wind And we get into
training, that’s our

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00:37:57,800 –> 00:38:01,700
responsibility to do the
training, to read the

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scriptures, and to offer the
prayers.

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00:38:08,200 –> 00:38:12,700
The Bible is a practical
training manual.

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00:38:15,000 –> 00:38:19,500
It is a life-changing not a
brain changing manual.

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00:38:22,500 –> 00:38:26,300
For it, is there to enable us to
do.

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00:38:26,300 –> 00:38:30,000
Good works, not to accumulate
knowledge.

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00:38:33,200 –> 00:38:37,900
Prayer is a powerful method of
listening to God.

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I always thought the prayer was
about speaking prayer is about

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00:38:44,300 –> 00:38:48,300
listening.
Finally.

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00:38:49,500 –> 00:38:52,300
God will change and transform
us.

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00:38:53,500 –> 00:38:59,800
By continually asking us very
pertinent questions in our

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lives.
And that’s the wonderful life

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00:39:04,400 –> 00:39:10,100
that we have in the Lord that he
cares about us, because he wants

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00:39:10,100 –> 00:39:15,000
to have an everlasting
relationship with us, and he is

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transforming us.
As long as we allow him.