Bob Lloyd – Class 1: Thank God for Hurdles

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It’s now with great pleasure
that we invite our brother, Bob

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Ford to speak to us to the
subject.

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Thank God for hurdles brother
Bob.

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Good afternoon, my beloved,
Brothers and Sisters of the

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Lord, Jesus Christ.
And all you young people and all

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our friends, I can’t tell you
how happy I am to be here with

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you.
I never thought I’d be back.

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And here I am again, and I’m so
thankful that you were kind

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enough to remember to invite me.
I have this problem.

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If you invite me, I have to say
yes and sometimes it disturbs my

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wife a little bit, but If you
can do something God’s asking

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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 sure getting less every
day as you get older.

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I can say something to you that
none of you can say, I left Los

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Angeles, Wednesday evening.
And I did not sin on Thursday.

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Because when we landed, it was
Friday.

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So I had no Thursday to sin
unfortunately on the way back.

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I get to Mondays, so I probably
will make up for lost time, but

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

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hours later be with so many
people.

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You know, and love that you
haven’t seen for such a long

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time.
I know there’s some new ones

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here that we are meeting for the
first time and I’m looking

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forward to talking to you and
it’s certainly wonderful to see

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the faces of those.
That we’ve known and loved for

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over the years.
I see Stephen Edgington down

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there.
I raced him in 1979 across a

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bridge, and I won because I
cheated, I’ve been doing that

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all over the world, but the last
time I did it, I was already in

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my 70s and they the guy beat me
so bad.

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I could hardly see him at the
end but so I don’t do that

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anymore.
But I, maybe I could beat him.

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Now, we both age the same amount
except I had such a big head

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start.
Well, our subject gives the way

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of life.
There are two ways you can go in

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your life.
And you have a choice.

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We can choose the way of life,
which is our subject and live

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forever.
We can choose a way of death.

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And perish forever.
Now that doesn’t sound like a

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very difficult decision to make
dozen.

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Life or death.
And yet, I know you’re going to

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realize this is true.
Nearly nearly everybody in the

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whole wide world.
Every year, every decade, every

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Century they all choose death
because they do not want to take

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the way of life.
And so that’s going to be our

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subject.
How can we be sure that we have

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taken and are in the way of
life?

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So our studies is sass afternoon
this evening and tomorrow, God

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willing are going to try to help
us see clearly the way and then

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walk ye in it.
The prophet Isaiah told us and

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Thine Eyes shall hear a voice
behind me.

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These saying this is the way
walk ye in it.

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When you 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 the

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way walk.
Ye in it in Jeremiah’s day, the

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Lord said to Jeremiah and to
this people ye shall say.

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Thus saith the Lord behold I set
before you the way of life and

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the way of death.
Simple right choose life, most

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people don’t but we want to make
sure that all of us make the

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right decision and choose life.
Again words you’re familiar with

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and you might want to look them
up there and Deuteronomy chapter

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30, because Moses is challenging
the children of Israel just

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before he dies.
And he’s an old man, he’s even

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older than I am and that’s
pretty old and he’ll he calls

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them together as you have come
together this afternoon and he

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said, I call Heaven and Earth to
witness against you this day.

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I have set before you life.
And death blessing and cursing.

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Choose life that you and your
descendants may live.

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And again you if you know the
history of the children of

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Israel nearly all of them chose
death out of some two and a half

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million or more, who left Egypt
to of those original ones.

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Over 20, walked across the
Jordan, into the promised land,

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Joshua and Caleb.
All the rest, perished in the

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wilderness, And so, history
attests to the fact that most

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people do not choose the way of
life, and we want you to do

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that.
Now the term the way is a

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

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in years past.
In fact, the word pairs 374

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

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in the christadelphians
magazine.

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And what they used to call the
intelligence section.

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It’s, it’s really the news, but
they would report Court

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something like this.
Our dear sister X, Y Zed, has

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fallen asleep.
In the Lord, she had been in the

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way for over 60 years.
Now we know what they meant, but

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it sounds like she’s was a
blocking traffic for a very long

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time.
But this phrase the way is quite

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scriptural.
So we’re just going to look at a

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few of them.
Solomon says, he is in the way

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of life that keepeth
instruction.

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So now there’s a little clue for
us if you want to stay in the

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way of life.
You got to listen to some

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instructions.
Instructions are going to find

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her 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 the 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 righteousness is life,

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righteousness, keepeth him.
That is upright in the way.

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The hoary head is a Crown of
Glory, if it be found in the way

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of righteousness.
He, that is upright in the way.

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Is abomination of the wicked.
You Wicked people don’t like you

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to be in the way of Truth.
They don’t like you to stand up

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for, what’s right?
And so Solomon, actually, warned

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us and says, there is a way that
seemeth, right unto a man, But

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the end thereof are the ways of
death.

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So the consequences of choosing
the wrong way, is fatal to

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choose the right way, is life
and peace.

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And so it’s easy for us to
deceive ourselves and what we

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want to really do something, how
often we rationalize their, what

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

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So 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 refrain thy foot from

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their path.
Young people.

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Have a lot of peer pressure as
you get older, your peers, start

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dying, my father-in-law, lived
with us till he was 102 and we

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had a big party for him of
christadelphians on his 100th.

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Birthday and I got up and I
said, Grandad, we call him

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affectionately Granddad has
solved the peer pressure

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problem.
He didn’t have any peers, he was

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100 and nobody else in the room
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But we do have pure pressure
problem and so saw missing.

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Don’t 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.

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This big and not have people a
lot of troubles.

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You know, the only people in the
world had no trouble at all, are

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dead.
Be glad you have a few problems

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that shows you’re alive.
And so let not your heart be

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troubled, you believe in God
believe.

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Also in me, then he said whether
I go, you know, and the way, you

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know, 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 Palmer
says, Lord, we know not whither.

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You’re going, how do we know the
way?

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

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No man cometh unto the father,
but by me, so the right way, the

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only way is to follow Jesus.
Who is the way the truth and the

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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 and where I am

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there shall also my servant be
if any man serve me him will my

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father honor And then he said,
If any man will come after me

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let him deny himself, take up
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Now what Jesus is saying is it’s
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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.
We don’t literally died on a

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cross, we have to crucify our
flesh.

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We have to stop doing those
things that our body tells us

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that it wants to do.
So these things have I spoken

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unto you that in me you may have
peace.

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He says in the world you will
have tribulation just but cheer

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up.
I’ve overcome the world.

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Did you hear what he said?
He’s a you’re going to have

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trouble.
Big trouble, shura.

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That sounds like a contradiction
of terms, doesn’t it?

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You’re going to have trouble and
food to cheer up and that’s what

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Jesus is saying.
And that’s what we should be

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trying to do because we’re going
to talk about something in this

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first class that you’ve heard
before.

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I am not going to tell you
anything, you haven’t already

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heard because if I did it
probably would be wrong.

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You’re all better Bible students
than I am.

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But I’m going to try to stir up
your pure Minds by way of

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remembrance and try to make it
stick.

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So that when I thought goes in
here, it doesn’t go flying out

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there.
We’re going to try to put In the

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

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as we try to present them to
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And so Jesus is saying you’re
going to have trouble cheer up,

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I’ve overcome so, can you And
that’s why Paul who understood

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that said I can do all things
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Who strengthens me?
He could and you can too.

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So Paul traveled among the
Ecclesia has and he tried to

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comfort them with similar words.
He said he said that he’d

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exhorted them to continue in the
faith and that we must through

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much tribulation enter into the
kingdom of God.

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So Paul is telling us like Jesus
told us that you’re going to

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have troubles, be followers of
me, said Paul them, even as I am

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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 hurdles, and

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potholes and detours.
And you have to expect them and

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know how to conquer them.
Because that’s Means to overcome

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now.
Not too many years ago.

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You had the Olympics here in
Sydney and it was a very big

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deal for the whole world and
particularly for New South Wales

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and certainly for the city of
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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 the fence and you’ve got

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in the stand.
And this place is packed and I

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

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I had never been to Olympic
game.

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We had one Los Angeles but I
couldn’t get tickets but just

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imagine.
Now we’re in the stands and your

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boy from New South Wales is the
runner for the high hurdles

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representing the great country
of Australia and the band is

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playing in the waves of flags
are waving and we’re getting all

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ready for this race and all
that, you know, I don’t do this

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very good anymore but they’re
all getting ready to go and this

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is the blocks are out there for
them to put their feet in.

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And the guys got the God, he’s
going to sounds a gun.

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He said on your mark, get set,
go and take your position and

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they also stopped and he looks
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No hurdles.
This is a high hurdle race and

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somebody forgot to put hurdles
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And the guy says on your mark,
get set.

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And you don’t know if you take
got no proof Jessica, what’s the

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matter?
There’s no, I can’t win the gold

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medal for Australia if there’s
no hurdles to jump over.

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I want her dolls.
To jump over so I can win.

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That’s not too hard to
understand, is it?

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Can you quit that to your life?
That God is literally putting

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hurdles in your lane in your
life, so you can overcome Jesus

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said he that overcometh.
You can’t overcome if there’s no

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hurdles So, the Hope Stadium
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Well, the groundskeepers setup
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Australian Runner and then they
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And you.
And I Or in this race for life.

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Eternal.
And we got hurdles in front of

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us every morning when you get
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There’s hurdles for you to jump
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Oh look at all those hurdles.
Just say thank God for hurtles a

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loving.
God is preparing me for

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something bigger and better than
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In order for me to achieve it, I
have to overcome and so every

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hurdle is to jump.
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all things through Christ, who
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Again, if you have your Bibles
on your lap, Hebrews chapter, 12

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verses thoroughly familiar, to
all of you and about the subject

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on which we’re now considering
chapter 12 of Hebrews coming in

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at verse 6 for whom.
The Lord loves he chastens.

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You want God to love you.
And you know what’s going to

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happen, you’re going to be
chasing.

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If you endure chastening God
deals with you, as with sons for

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what son is, there whom the
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But if you are without chasing
of which all have become

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partakers then you are
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And King James says bastards, as
you know, furthermore we have

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all had human fathers who
corrected us and we paid them

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respect your thankful when your
father loves you enough to

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correct you and teach you the
right way.

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You have a heavenly father, that
loves you enough to correct.

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You and guide you in the way of
life, shall we?

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Not much more readily?
In subjection to the father of

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spirits and live for they indeed
for a few days chastened us as

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it seemed best to them, but he
for our profit that we may be

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partakers of his holiness.
Now, this next verse is, so

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obvious.
And you already knew it.

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No.
Chastening seems to be joyful

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for the present.
You can save.

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Wow, this is sure fun.
Having this trial.

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This problem hurdles are to
jump.

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Yes, they are an obstacle to
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But strengthen your hands of
hang down and the feeble knees

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and make straight paths for your
feet, you can do it, brothers

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and sisters and that’s the first
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that you are going to have
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And I’m want to talk about how
you face them because they make

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or they break us.
So what does Paul say, look,

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I’ve come to Romans chapter 5
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about suffering.
Romans chapter 5 and being at

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verse 1.
This is from the RSV, therefore

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since we are justified by faith,
we have peace with God through

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our Lord, Jesus Christ through
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We have obtain success to the
crease in which we stand and we

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rejoiced in our hope of sharing,
the glory of God, more than

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that, this is Paul talking.
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Now are you doing that?
Are you rejoicing in your

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suffering?
You’ve got a problem.

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I just met a very nice little
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He was explained to me that he
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It’s not easy to rejoice when
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But if God has been put there by
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be thankful that they’re there
and that they’re doing their

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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 character

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produces hope and hope does not
disappoint us because God’s love

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has been poured out into our
hearts through the Holy Spirit

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which is given to us.
Hope helps us to cope.

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He’s saying there we rejoice in
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Now, Paul had a problem, you are
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He called it a thorn in the
flesh.

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I know a lot of people know what
it is.

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Paul didn’t tell us what it was,
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We had lots of different answers
to that and I’m willing to

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listen to yours but point is we
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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.
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And that’s only normal, not to
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So what did he do?
He took it to God in prayer and

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he prayed to Once twice three
times God, please take away.

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This problem is Thorn and it
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And God said no to Paul, Paul’s
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He won’t have the thorn then he
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Listen, listen to this.
In 2nd Corinthians chapter 12

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

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about this.
That it should lead me.

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But God said unto me, my grace
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For my power is made, perfect in
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God says, you’re going to have
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Well, how would you react?
If God tells you, you must live

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with the 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’m content with weaknesses in

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insults, hardships, persecution
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I’ve got thank God for hurdles.
Thank you, God, for giving me

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these problems.
So you have problems like Paul

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did How are you reacting?
That’s our lesson.

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We want to learn from this first
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How are you going to react to
the problems you already have

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and some that you’re going to
get that?

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You haven’t even had yet.
I have people.

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I just can’t take it anymore.
Do you know that your

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subconscious mind does not have
a sense of humor?

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When you talk to yourself and
you tell yourself, I can’t take

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this anymore.
Your your body we’re

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overreacting.
You probably won’t be able to

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sew My Season.
These oh, I’m going to get a

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cold, you order a Coke.
Okay, you get a call.

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Why do we program our sales to
fail instead of to succeed?

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Don’t ever say negative things
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No I just can’t have it.
You can’t handle it.

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

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the first place so you see we
can take lots more.

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We think we can take if we just
trust in God to provide us the

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strength to get through what it
is, we have to go through and so

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James.
Now Paul has said that we gladly

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boast and weaknesses James
chapter one is going to say

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consider it pure joy.
My brothers when You Face Trials

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of many kinds you got to really
being tracked.

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Oh boy.
Are you your full Joy, right?

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No.
Well, James is Is.

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Yes, when you have problems, we
are to thank God for our

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troubles because, you know, this
is not a maybe thing because,

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you know, that the testing of
your faith, develops,

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perseverance, perseverance, must
finish its work.

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So that you may be mature and
complete not lacking anything.

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So James is in complete
agreement with Paul.

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How do you react when you have
problems rejoice in our

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sufferings, knowing that
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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 but you see God because

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he loves you.
It’s going to make sure that you

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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 but

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

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wouldn’t let me have it.
And so now this is I 1 I really

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want you to look up Luke chapter
6 and this is G because we’re

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did Paul get the answer to
rejoice in trouble.

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Where did James get the answer
to Rejoice the gym?

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They learned it from Jesus
Christ.

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And so Jesus is going to answer
this once and for all, how do we

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handle our troubles on the way
of life, and Luke chapter 6, and

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coming in, at verse 20, looking
at his disciples, and this is

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what Jesus he looks, right at
you and he said, blessed are you

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who are poor for yours is the
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We’d love to go to weddings
christadelphians, go to

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weddings, that’s one place you
can get people out.

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They don’t come to some other
things that 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

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decided to play play wedding.
So one little boy, he was going

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to be the preacher and a little
girl, was playing the jolt role

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of the bride.
And the little boy was

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pretending, he was the groom and
the little fellow who was doing

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the Mary.
He said to the little girl, do

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you take this man for a richer
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He said she said for richer.
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She didn’t understand what the
whole thing was, but, but you

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see, that’s what we normally do.
We do?

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We choose Rich, we see who the
healthier now.

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Listen to what Jesus says,
blessed.

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Are you who are poor?
For yours is the kingdom of God.

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Blessed are you who hunger now?
For you shall be satisfied.

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Blessed.
Are you who weep now for?

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You shall blessed.
Are you when men shall hate you

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and when they exclude you
insult, you and reject your name

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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 me.

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See, peer pressure.
You have to stand up for the

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truth against your peers and if
they’re all going the wrong way,

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you don’t go that way.
Just because everybody else is

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going, though, anything that
everybody else is doing is

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probably right?
So if ever you come to your

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parents as everybody’s going, if
I was your father, I’d say one

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that’s why you’re not anything.
They’re all doing is probably

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not a good thing to do so and
when you do that, they are going

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to exclude, you and insult, you
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And now we’re coming to the key
verse verse 23 rejoice in that

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day.
And Jesus said you That was a

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dumb thing to do, one.
I just jumped, I don’t jump as

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high as I used to.
But he didn’t really mean that.

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You think you think Jesus really
met?

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Let’s read it again.
Verse 23, rejoice in that day,

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and leap for joy.
I don’t think Jesus ever said,

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silly talk.
I Think Jesus meant that when

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you have a problem, you should
leap for Joy.

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

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and you look at the problems
that all of you are facing, this

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ought to be a jumping place.
Because we’ve all got problems.

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Now, I have taken this verse
absolutely literal.

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Because Jesus said to now, I
know I don’t bleep, like, I used

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to leave and if your bed fast,
you may not even be argued, but

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you go You could you could
mentally leap even though you

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can’t get out of bed.
And I have to tell you a story.

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We have a Bible class in our
home on Tuesday nights, and a

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brother comes to this class who
is in the television business,

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he’s a producer for newscast
Channel 7, and he has to be on

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duty at five in the morning.
So he has to leave the house

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about four.
So, so, he soon as the class is

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over, he’s got to get out of
there because he’s got to get up

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real early and we talked about
Jesus telling us to leap for

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joy.
And soon as the class was over,

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we close with prayer.
And we my wife always has a

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refreshments and everybody sits
around and we have a nice time

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00:27:49,000 –> 00:27:51,900
together but he said thanks
folks.

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He’s on.
He’s gone.

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So later on this sister, his
wife was talking to my wife on

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the phone and she said, you
know, after we left your class

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00:28:04,100 –> 00:28:08,400
Fred was jumping all the way
down your driveway, he was

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00:28:08,400 –> 00:28:15,500
leaping for joy as he left the
class because Jesus said to

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There’s actually something
therapeutic him.

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I gave this an in England at a
place called Wessex Camp.

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00:28:21,800 –> 00:28:25,000
Wessex is a was a farm.
They rent a farm in the farmer.

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Rinse them, A Great Big Field
and they bring in a big tent

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00:28:28,100 –> 00:28:32,100
called they call him.
Now, Marquis there were 750,

445
00:28:32,100 –> 00:28:36,900
people broke bread in a tent
that weekend and everybody

446
00:28:36,900 –> 00:28:40,200
brings their Caravans and their
tents and everybody camps.

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And on the Saturday I mentioned
this to leap for joy in the

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morning.
Russian and then we all broke,

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00:28:48,600 –> 00:28:51,800
everybody went back to their
Caravans and tents for lunch and

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we came back for the afternoon
session and the sister came up

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00:28:54,800 –> 00:28:57,800
to me and says, hello, Bob my
head’s killing me.

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I said what happened?
She’s well, I went into my

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00:29:00,300 –> 00:29:04,700
Caravan and I left for joy and I
hit the door here.

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So when you do it, make sure you
have clearance but there was a

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medical doctor in the audience.
And I saw him later on that same

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week and he says, you know, I
went home and I did some

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research, medically about what
you said, was a me.

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It was Jesus said it, he says
that it actually has therapeutic

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00:29:29,500 –> 00:29:33,600
value.
Now you see, we read that.

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How many times have you read
leap for joy.

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And how many times have you
actually done it?

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00:29:40,000 –> 00:29:43,200
You see, Jesus meant what he
said.

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And when you have a problem, the
father, doing the hurdles of

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gotta leap, he’s got to hit the
hurdle.

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If he doesn’t jump, So, when you
have problems, listen to Paul,

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00:29:53,700 –> 00:29:56,400
listen to Peter, listen to
James.

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00:29:56,400 –> 00:30:00,400
Listen to Jesus, who say, this
is how you handle problems.

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00:30:00,800 –> 00:30:04,900
You thank God for your hurdles.
You leap for Joy, you recognize

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that God loves you, or you
wouldn’t have this problem.

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And so therefore he’s helping
you to overcome it.

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Oui.
Find as we get older.

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We can’t move as quickly as we
used to, but it’s, it doesn’t

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00:30:25,200 –> 00:30:27,500
need to be a physical leap at
all.

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Simply needs to be a mental one.
And so, even when you are down

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00:30:34,300 –> 00:30:37,500
in bed, you still can leap for
joy.

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Jacob.
Had to limp.

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For the rest of his life.
Because you wrestled with an

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Angel.
That was a good limp.

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00:30:52,700 –> 00:30:58,200
He didn’t complain.
He was one of God’s chosen it

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00:30:58,200 –> 00:31:05,000
God left him a limp to remind
him of what had happened and so

481
00:31:05,000 –> 00:31:08,000
when you have problems God,
sometimes leaves you with

482
00:31:08,000 –> 00:31:12,900
reminders of them are hearing,
may go, our teeth may fall out,

483
00:31:13,300 –> 00:31:17,300
we met met me.
Make me may be able to walk that

484
00:31:17,300 –> 00:31:20,000
to use crutches, or maybe in a
wheelchair, maybe can’t get out

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00:31:20,008 –> 00:31:24,600
of bed, but just recognize the
fact.

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That our problems are sent to us
by a loving father who’s

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00:31:32,900 –> 00:31:35,700
preparing us for bigger and
better things.

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00:31:36,500 –> 00:31:40,900
And so when Paul was called on
the way to Damascus and asked

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00:31:40,900 –> 00:31:44,700
was to told told him that he
must learn those things, which

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he must suffer for my sake, said
God to ananias about Paul. and

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00:31:50,900 –> 00:31:57,500
then, you think about Jesus, Our
Savior, our Lord We’re told that

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00:31:57,500 –> 00:32:03,300
he had learned obedience.
By the things that he suffered.

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00:32:04,500 –> 00:32:08,700
He was the son of God, he never
sinned.

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00:32:09,200 –> 00:32:13,300
We sometimes suffer because of a
sin we have committed and sins,

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00:32:13,300 –> 00:32:17,500
do bring consequences.
But not all your problems are

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00:32:17,500 –> 00:32:21,000
caused by your sins.
Some of them are caused by God,

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00:32:22,000 –> 00:32:25,800
helping you to want to be in the
Kingdom, more than anything else

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00:32:25,800 –> 00:32:28,900
in all the world.
And so that dear sister, who

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00:32:28,900 –> 00:32:35,000
fell asleep in the Lord, after
being in the way for 60 years,

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00:32:36,100 –> 00:32:42,200
She had 60 years of overcoming
troubles, because everyone who

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00:32:42,200 –> 00:32:45,800
is a Christian delphian is going
to have problems.

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00:32:47,900 –> 00:32:53,900
Promised by God, promised by
Jesus, cheer up the world, you

503
00:32:53,900 –> 00:32:58,400
will have troubles but be of
good cheer because I have

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00:32:58,400 –> 00:33:03,700
overcome the world.
So, I want you to realize how

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00:33:03,700 –> 00:33:07,900
special you are.
You have come here because

506
00:33:08,000 –> 00:33:11,900
you’ve been called there’s
millions of people in Sydney

507
00:33:11,900 –> 00:33:13,800
this room couldn’t hold
everybody want to come here for

508
00:33:13,800 –> 00:33:15,600
your girl.
If all the people realize that

509
00:33:15,600 –> 00:33:17,900
we have the answer to all their
problems but they don’t believe

510
00:33:17,900 –> 00:33:21,100
that and they wouldn’t listen.
If they came, you have been

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00:33:21,100 –> 00:33:24,800
called by God.
Jesus said no man can come to me

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00:33:24,800 –> 00:33:26,400
except the Father, which hath
sent me dry.

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00:33:26,500 –> 00:33:31,900
So your hand picked out of the
millions of people know billions

514
00:33:31,900 –> 00:33:37,000
of people on this Earth, how few
of us really know the true

515
00:33:37,000 –> 00:33:39,300
gospel message.
We know the planet preference

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00:33:39,300 –> 00:33:41,300
with God.
We know what’s going to happen.

517
00:33:41,300 –> 00:33:46,300
We’re looking for Jesus.
We are so blessed.

518
00:33:47,600 –> 00:33:49,700
And sometimes we take it for
granted.

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00:33:50,100 –> 00:33:52,300
Yes, I’m a Christian delphian.
I’ve been a Christian for more

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00:33:52,300 –> 00:33:57,200
than 6. 66 years.
Last July I was baptized So I’ve

521
00:33:57,200 –> 00:34:05,200
been in the whale, some people
think I’m in the way. but,

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00:34:06,600 –> 00:34:12,800
Because I gave my life to God.
He is, directing my paths in the

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00:34:12,800 –> 00:34:16,400
way of life to the kingdom.
And I believe that with all my

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00:34:16,400 –> 00:34:21,000
heart, and when I Stray, From
the way, he’s gently brings me

525
00:34:21,000 –> 00:34:23,400
back.
He’s guiding your feet.

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00:34:23,400 –> 00:34:27,800
You don’t God, will guide your
feet, but you have to get up and

527
00:34:27,800 –> 00:34:32,199
shuffle them yourself.
You say oh yes I want God to

528
00:34:32,207 –> 00:34:34,900
guide me but I’m just sitting
back and taking it easy.

529
00:34:35,699 –> 00:34:40,600
God can’t guide you if you don’t
try to get moving, but once

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00:34:40,600 –> 00:34:44,300
you’re going, God can guide your
feet and the way of life.

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00:34:44,300 –> 00:34:50,000
So, Jesus says, you can’t even
come to me, unless my father has

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00:34:50,000 –> 00:34:54,800
drawn you So those of you who
are in this room, not baptized

533
00:34:54,800 –> 00:34:58,800
you’re being called you just
haven’t said yes yet some of you

534
00:34:58,800 –> 00:35:01,800
it’s because you’re too young
for others.

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00:35:01,800 –> 00:35:04,900
There’s other reasons we don’t
know what they are but they’ve

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00:35:04,900 –> 00:35:08,200
allowed me to have a special
class not tomorrow but a week

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00:35:08,200 –> 00:35:10,600
from tomorrow for everybody
that’s not baptized.

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00:35:10,600 –> 00:35:15,300
If you’re baptized you can’t
come Because everybody in the

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00:35:15,300 –> 00:35:19,400
whole world that’s not baptized
is not baptized for a reason and

540
00:35:19,400 –> 00:35:22,900
if you’re not baptized, there’s
a reason and we want to find out

541
00:35:22,900 –> 00:35:26,300
what it is see if we can help.
So if you’re not baptized,

542
00:35:26,300 –> 00:35:29,300
please try to reserve that time
a week from tomorrow in the

543
00:35:29,308 –> 00:35:34,600
evening for that special class.
But the fact is you’ve been

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00:35:34,600 –> 00:35:36,100
calling you won’t even come
today.

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00:35:37,200 –> 00:35:40,100
Even if you just came to light
day with with a neighbor, who’s

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00:35:40,100 –> 00:35:41,900
a Christian Alfea?
You’re hearing something, maybe

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00:35:41,900 –> 00:35:45,100
you haven’t heard before.
Most of us, this is old stuff,

548
00:35:45,100 –> 00:35:49,100
your hearing.
But the point is, we are being

549
00:35:49,100 –> 00:35:53,200
called by God.
And it’s up to us.

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00:35:54,300 –> 00:36:00,500
To say yes we may have to limp
through life as a result of our

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00:36:00,800 –> 00:36:05,100
encounter with an angel, but you
see that’s all right.

552
00:36:05,200 –> 00:36:07,600
God didn’t promise us a Bed of
Roses.

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00:36:08,100 –> 00:36:12,200
He Jesus said you will have
troubles but be of good cheer.

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00:36:12,200 –> 00:36:18,800
I have overcome the world.
So God said to Jeremiah back in,

555
00:36:18,800 –> 00:36:22,500
Jeremiah chapter 1, just as
Jeremiah book begins.

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00:36:22,900 –> 00:36:29,900
God says to him before I formed
thee in the belly, I knew thee.

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00:36:32,400 –> 00:36:35,000
Before thou camest forth out of
the womb.

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00:36:35,700 –> 00:36:41,800
I Sanctified thee and I ordained
thee a prophet unto the Nations.

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00:36:42,900 –> 00:36:45,200
So what’s that got to do with
us?

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00:36:46,000 –> 00:36:50,800
Well, God is telling Jeremiah
that before he was even

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00:36:50,900 –> 00:36:54,100
conceived, God knew all about
him.

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00:36:55,400 –> 00:36:59,200
And you know that’s true of you.
If you’ve been called, God knew

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00:36:59,200 –> 00:37:02,500
you were going to be born.
When you were born before your

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00:37:02,500 –> 00:37:08,100
parents, even met each other.
You were in God’s plan to be in

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00:37:08,100 –> 00:37:12,400
the Kingdom because he’s calling
you and he wants you in the

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00:37:12,400 –> 00:37:15,900
Kingdom.
And we have to respond by

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00:37:15,900 –> 00:37:20,200
saying, yes, thank you Father,
we want to be there.

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00:37:21,700 –> 00:37:25,700
We’re called to walk in the way
of life, and we have to know

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00:37:25,700 –> 00:37:28,100
what that way is.
And then we have to get up

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00:37:28,100 –> 00:37:34,900
moving, and go that way.
Now, Jesus warned us that the

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00:37:34,900 –> 00:37:39,000
way would not be easy in.
Matthew 7 is enter by the narrow

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00:37:39,000 –> 00:37:42,400
gate for the gate is wide and
the way is easy that leads to

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00:37:42,400 –> 00:37:45,200
destruction.
Those that enter in by it are

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00:37:45,200 –> 00:37:48,900
many, you have very good roads
here in Australia.

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00:37:48,900 –> 00:37:52,300
I’m amazed you’ve wronged drive
on the left side of the But you

576
00:37:52,300 –> 00:37:57,900
have very good roads to go on.
And they’re busy traffic

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00:37:57,900 –> 00:38:01,600
everywhere.
But when you choose to go in the

578
00:38:01,600 –> 00:38:06,700
way of life, you’re going to
turn off the big motorways,

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00:38:07,300 –> 00:38:10,600
going to take an off-ramp from
the road, where everybody else

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00:38:10,600 –> 00:38:13,200
is going.
And you’re going to take that

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00:38:13,200 –> 00:38:19,500
long narrow winding up hill road
to the kingdom.

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00:38:20,600 –> 00:38:26,500
For the gate is narrow.
And the way is hard that leads

583
00:38:26,500 –> 00:38:29,600
to life and those who find it
are.

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00:38:29,600 –> 00:38:33,100
Few few that be the finances of
King James.

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00:38:34,300 –> 00:38:39,400
So this these talks are about
the way of life, and we want you

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00:38:39,400 –> 00:38:44,900
this weekend to totally
rededicate yourself, that you

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00:38:44,900 –> 00:38:49,000
are in the way and you’re going
to keep moving in the way you

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00:38:49,000 –> 00:38:52,900
may have to take baby steps, but
don’t sit down.

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00:38:53,700 –> 00:38:57,200
Stay on your feet and keep
moving toward the kingdom.

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00:38:58,300 –> 00:39:00,500
It’s not an easy Road, God
didn’t promise, it would be

591
00:39:00,500 –> 00:39:03,200
easy, he just promised that he
would help you.

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00:39:03,600 –> 00:39:08,200
If you Try.
But some people won’t try.

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00:39:09,600 –> 00:39:12,500
Get imagine going back to that
example of the Olympics.

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00:39:13,800 –> 00:39:18,700
And the morning of the big race,
our star hurdler, went to the

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00:39:18,800 –> 00:39:22,700
coaches as coach.
I don’t feel good today, you

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00:39:22,700 –> 00:39:24,600
know, there are days when we
don’t feel good.

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00:39:24,800 –> 00:39:28,300
It’s true of all of us.
I don’t think I want to try to

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00:39:28,300 –> 00:39:32,600
ride.
He spent a lifetime getting

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00:39:32,600 –> 00:39:36,600
ready to compete for Australia
in the Olympics and you don’t

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00:39:36,600 –> 00:39:38,600
feel good and you’re not going
to try.

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00:39:39,000 –> 00:39:41,100
That would drive the coach
crazy.

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00:39:42,500 –> 00:39:44,400
You get in there and do the best
you can?

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00:39:44,400 –> 00:39:49,900
Well, I don’t feel good coach.
We don’t always feel good, we

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00:39:49,900 –> 00:39:53,700
don’t always have energy.
We don’t always know exactly

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00:39:53,700 –> 00:39:56,600
what to do.
So we ask God to help us, he

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00:39:56,600 –> 00:40:02,100
will guide your steps, trust in
the Lord, with all my might, and

607
00:40:02,100 –> 00:40:05,800
lean not unto thine own
understanding, and all your ways

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00:40:05,800 –> 00:40:10,000
acknowledge Him as God, and he
will direct your paths.

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00:40:11,000 –> 00:40:13,500
But he won’t direct them if you
won’t try.

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00:40:14,800 –> 00:40:20,400
And so we who are baptized have
already made that commitment the

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00:40:20,400 –> 00:40:23,400
day of our baptism, we gave our
life to the Lord.

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00:40:24,100 –> 00:40:27,900
Now unfortunately, all of us
have fallen back taken steps in

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00:40:27,900 –> 00:40:31,600
the wrong direction since our
baptism because none of us are

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00:40:31,600 –> 00:40:34,500
perfect.
But aren’t you thankful for

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00:40:34,500 –> 00:40:37,300
forgiveness?
Because if it weren’t for

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00:40:37,300 –> 00:40:42,800
forgiveness, None of us could be
saved.

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00:40:44,500 –> 00:40:49,700
And so Brethren and sisters.
You are now in the way of life.

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00:40:50,700 –> 00:40:55,300
You who are not baptized.
You now know about the way of

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00:40:55,300 –> 00:40:59,700
life and, you know, it’s the
only right way.

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00:41:00,100 –> 00:41:05,100
There’s lots of wrong ways, but
there’s only one, right way and

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00:41:05,100 –> 00:41:11,000
God is inviting you.
To participate and offering you

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00:41:11,000 –> 00:41:15,900
the greatest reward that’s ever
been offered to human beings to

623
00:41:15,900 –> 00:41:18,100
live and Reign on this Earth
with the Lord.

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00:41:18,100 –> 00:41:25,800
Jesus Christ forever.
People say no. if we could just

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00:41:26,100 –> 00:41:30,100
paint for the people who are
trying to teach the truth to the

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00:41:30,100 –> 00:41:34,700
picture of the goal of the
Kingdom, We would be drawn to

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00:41:34,700 –> 00:41:35,800
it.
It’s a wild horses.

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00:41:35,800 –> 00:41:36,800
Couldn’t keep you out of the
way.

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Let me get baptized what we’re
finding in the mission field and

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00:41:42,500 –> 00:41:47,200
it’s sad in a way.
That we have to go so far.

631
00:41:47,200 –> 00:41:50,400
It’s God is working and he’s
bringing calling people out of

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00:41:50,400 –> 00:41:53,800
the Gentiles, for his name, in
all these countries, where there

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00:41:53,800 –> 00:41:56,400
were no christadelphians a few
years ago.

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00:41:56,800 –> 00:42:00,200
And now there’s lots of
christadelphians in India.

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00:42:00,300 –> 00:42:04,600
In China, my grandson has been a
missionary in China.

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00:42:04,600 –> 00:42:08,000
For the last year, he went over
there and learn Mandarin and he

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00:42:08,000 –> 00:42:12,000
was doing actually doing
translating in Mandarin in China

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00:42:12,800 –> 00:42:16,700
and just a young boy.
But he’s on fire for the truth.

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00:42:17,900 –> 00:42:21,400
but, you see, when you talk to
your neighbors about this, oh,

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00:42:22,400 –> 00:42:24,500
Watch the Telly.
I’m going to the Ball Game.

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00:42:24,800 –> 00:42:27,100
We’re having a card party
tonight, we’re doing this

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window.
Everybody in the world around.

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You probably is crowding.
God out of their life and

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they’ve chosen the way of death
and they’re going to get what

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they chose.
I know that you have labor

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unions and Australia We have
them in America and the people

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who belong to a union often
times, go on strike and they get

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little signs and they walk up
and down picketing, they want

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more money.
One out, you have learned

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something and you’re going to
get it and you don’t have to

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00:43:03,900 –> 00:43:08,000
pick it to get it.
You’re you earned it.

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You’re going to get it.
The wages of sin is death.

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And nobody has ever gotten out
of this life alive.

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Nobody ever got out of this
life, not even the Lord Jesus

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Christ, but he did not sin.
So the grave could not hold him

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00:43:33,400 –> 00:43:37,400
and because of Christ and his
sacrifice for us.

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If we commit our life to him,
the grave will not hold us

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either.
So, whether we live, we live

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unto the Lord, whether we die,
we die unto the Lord.

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Whether we live or die.
We are the Lord’s and we are in

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the way of life, and we’re
thankful to be in that way.

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And we’re thankful that we’ve
come together this afternoon to

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talk about this way.
We have two more classes today

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and then some more tomorrow But
I just want to thank you for

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inviting me to come and share
Thoughts with you.

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I realize it’s not something
you’ve never heard before, but I

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hope that he will drive home.
This re Reformation in your

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mind, this is the right thing
and I am going to resist

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temptation.
I am going to give my life to

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the Lord.
I’m going to be able to say no

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to the problems.
And I’m going to be able to

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accept the problems that I have
and rejoice.

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That God loves me enough to give
me these problems. so, be

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willing to turn off the Broadway
to the narrow way that leads to

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life eternal God promises to
wipe away all tears.

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From our eyes.
God gave us tear ducts on

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purpose, but in the Kingdom, we
won’t need them.

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But Jesus wept.
It’s okay to weep when you’re

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having problems, but then you
have to get ahold of yourself

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and say yes, but I had this
problem because God, you’re

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testing me.
You’re preparing me for

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something better and I can
handle it.

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Don’t say you can’t because you
can, because the time is coming

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with there, should be no more
death, neither sorrow nor crying

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neither shall there be any more
pain.

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Can you imagine that?
Almost all of us experience

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pain.
Some of us are in pain.

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All the time pain is very
debilitating.

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It’s free.
Hard to keep a stiff upper lip

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00:45:30,800 –> 00:45:33,700
when you’re hurting all over.
And that’s true of some of you

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00:45:33,700 –> 00:45:37,200
in this audience, you’re
hurting, thank God for your

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00:45:37,200 –> 00:45:40,300
hurdles.
God is allowing this hurt.

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If you can get medical care,
that will help you do it, do it,

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it’s not wrong, but what you
have and you cannot change

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00:45:48,800 –> 00:45:54,700
except and thank God for it.
And so we could bring our first

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class to a close and you’re
going to be given a little

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00:45:57,300 –> 00:46:00,400
handout.
And the Brethren were going to

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be passing those out now and
I’ve got one in my pocket but I

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00:46:04,408 –> 00:46:07,700
don’t want to do with it.
It’s well, they ready to go

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down.
When you see it you won’t know

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00:46:11,400 –> 00:46:13,300
what it is.
So I got to explain it to you.

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It’s unpronounceable.
I like to tell you, it’s my

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00:46:20,500 –> 00:46:23,800
business card.
But it doesn’t have a phone

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00:46:23,800 –> 00:46:25,800
number so you can still way you
can contact me.

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It’s your anymore can pass out
from the back and we we were

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00:46:33,700 –> 00:46:40,100
going real slow.
I want you to put this up card

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in your pocket.
Because I want you to look at

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it.
And be reminded of what it’s

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telling you.
And what is telling you that’s

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00:46:51,300 –> 00:46:53,800
an acronym of a bunch of
letters.

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Thank you very much.
And I don’t know if you know

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what they are, but now you will.
Because I carry these cards with

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00:47:03,800 –> 00:47:05,800
me.
And when somebody, when I do

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something wrong, not if because
I do do things wrong, he people

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00:47:09,600 –> 00:47:14,000
do make things takes, I do and I
just had him one of my cards

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00:47:15,000 –> 00:47:20,000
tell you what it helps.
Even if you have boss is jumping

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00:47:20,000 –> 00:47:22,700
on you because you did something
wrong, just hand him, one of

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00:47:22,707 –> 00:47:25,400
your cards, you can make
thousands of.

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These are easy to make.
In stands for this.

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Please be patient with me.
God is not finished with me yet.

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And that’s the good news about
our way of life.

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God is not finished with you
yet.

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He’s got big plans for you and
his kingdom.

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He’s called you to be steadfast
and immovable, always abounding

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00:47:52,100 –> 00:47:55,300
his work.
He wants you to hang in there

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00:47:56,000 –> 00:47:59,500
and jump those hurdles and stop
complaining about them.

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00:48:00,300 –> 00:48:02,600
The children of Israel were
always complaining even

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00:48:02,600 –> 00:48:06,900
complained about the food, they
ate Angels food, and complained

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00:48:06,900 –> 00:48:12,600
about it.
Be thankful that God loves you

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00:48:12,600 –> 00:48:15,500
enough to another one called
you?

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Number two, given you some
troubles, some hurdles be of

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00:48:21,400 –> 00:48:24,900
good.
Cheer said Jesus in the world,

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you’re going to have troubles.
But I have overcome the world

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said Jesus. and the good news
is, You can too.