Bob Lloyd – Class 1: Which Way To Go

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This is Idlewild 1982, our third
period class taught by brother.

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Robert Lloyd from Glendale
California is General, subject

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is Paul’s letter to the
Philippians and a title of his

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first class is which way to go.
My dear Brethren young brothers

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and sisters and young, people
don’t want to leave the sisters

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out.
It’s a great privilege.

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To be able to come among you and
address you.

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We’ve been coming to this Bible
school since 1955, brother will

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for Ali told us, a very cute
story this morning about the

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three river boat captains and we
had the same wonder that he had.

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You not only knew that I hit all
the sandbars and rocks in the

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river, but a lot of you were
with me when I did it, but we’re

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very happy.
Be the be here and share the

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thoughts of Philippians with
you.

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Before we do that though, we
have an obligation to perform.

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we have just recently returned
from Australia and everywhere we

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were, we were given Specific
Instructions by the Recording,

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brother, we were in Melbourne
and the conference chairman

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asked us to convey the love of
all the brothers and sisters at

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the conference, some, 1,200
rather than sisters there to

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you.
When they find out, we were

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going to be here.
We went to Hobart, which is

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brother, Steven Taylor and
Polly.

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Taylor’s Ecclesia, we stayed in
their home when we were in

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Hobart their recording brother.
And presiding brother on the

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last night, specifically asked
us to convey their love to the

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brothers and sisters when we got
Idlewild, we went out to Perth

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and they’re recording.
Brother asked us to do that.

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We got to Adelaide, and they
asked us to do that.

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We got to Sydney and they asked
us to do that.

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We with the Newcastle and they
asked us to do that.

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So my first responsibility is to
give you the love and greetings

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of the brothers and sisters from
almost everywhere in Australia.

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Would you like?
To know a secret.

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Would you like to know the
secret of true happiness?

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Would you like to meet the
person who will tell you the

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secret of true happiness?
Would you like to know the one

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who told him about the secret
for true happiness?

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Then let’s go together.
To the book that God wrote.

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Two.
Learn the secret of true

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happiness, because we’re going
to get to know the man.

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Who will tell us the secret of
true happiness.

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And the one who told him the
secret and the secret is

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revealed.
In the book of Philippians and

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the one who’s going to tell us
the secret of true happiness.

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As our beloved Apostle, Paul,
and the one who told Paul The

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Secret of true happiness is the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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This is a wonderful letter that
we have to consider together

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this letter to the Philippians,
aren’t you?

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Glad that Paul was put in jail,
aren’t you thrilled that they

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took Paul and imprisoned him in
Rome?

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Doesn’t that fill you with joy?
You say, how can you be happy

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about a thing like that?
Well, I am, I’m really glad that

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Paul was put in jail.
If you look at the little

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Epistles, which John wrote, he
says, in them having many things

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to write unto you.
I would not write with paper and

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ink.
I trust a coming to you and

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speak face-to-face that our joy
may be full, but John wasn’t in

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jail.
So he went to them and all the

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things, we wish he would have
told us.

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I told some but he went and told
him in person which was better

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for them, but not so good for
us.

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And then in this third epistle,
he says, I had many things to

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write but I will not with ink
and Pen write unto thee, but I

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trust, I shall shortly.
See thee and we shall speak

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face-to-face, but poor Paul can
do that.

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Not at this time, he’s in jail.
He doesn’t even know when he’s

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going to get out or even if he
is going to get out, he believes

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that he will Paul believed that
he would be delivered Paul

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thought positively Paul hope to
see them again, but he couldn’t

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go then he was chained to a
Roman soldier 24 hours a day,

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chained to a Roman soldier, not
the same Soldier.

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The soldiers.
Got a relief, Paul, never got a

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relief.
Soldiers, would come and say

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okay, it’s my turn unlock Paul’s
change.

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Then the next time I’d be
chained up to Paul and he’s got

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a new man to be changed to.
But everybody here has changed

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to heard about Jesus.
And so, Paul says himself in

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Philippians incisions,
Philippians chapter 1 and verse

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12.
He says your things?

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What you think are bad?
There really are good. 1:12.

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But I would you should
understand Brethren that the

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things which happened unto me
have happened, rather under the

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furtherance of the Gospel.
So we ought to be glad that Paul

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was in jail because it was
working up for the benefit of

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lots of people.
Not necessarily Paul.

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Yes, it was working out for
Paul.

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Well, you wouldn’t think so, if
you were Paul, I don’t think I

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would.
I mean, if I was in jail in Rome

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and I hadn’t done anything,
wrong member, Peter says, if you

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do something wrong and you get
punished for it, well, you got

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to come.
You can’t rejoice in that.

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But when you do everything,
right, and you’re punished for

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well, now, you can take
praising, you can be thankful

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for God, how can you be thankful
for that?

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Or because he says that the
things that have happened to me,

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they’re actually working out for
good.

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And he was in jail when he said
that.

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And so he really believed what
he said when he wrote to the

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Romans and he said that all
things Not some things.

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Not sometimes.
All things all the time work

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together for good to for
everybody in the world, know,

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just us.
Just those who are the called,

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according to his purpose, only
to that, select group of people

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in this world, do all things
work together for good.

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But do you believe it?
You know, the words I haven’t

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taught you anything, you don’t
know, you’ve heard all that

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before our brother Larry beutel
in his prayer this morning.

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Pray that the words that we
would hear what have an effect

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upon our life.
That’s the key.

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These aren’t words to read these
aren’t words to say, these are

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words and live.
Paul was living out what he

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said.
All things work together for

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good to those who love God to
those, who are the called.

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According to his purpose, even
what you think are bad things

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they’re good things because
they’re working out for your

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salvation.
And that’s the most wonderful

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thing that could ever happen to
you or me.

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So don’t worry if things aren’t
going the way you would like

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Paul didn’t want to be in jail,
he hated it.

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He wanted to be out preaching.
He wanted to be free to go and

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see these occasions and speak to
them face-to-face, like John was

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doing But you see how much
benefit has come to us because

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they locked up Paul.
We would maybe never have had

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this little letter to the
Philippians.

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If it hadn’t been that Paul went
to jail.

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This letter is called
Philippians because it was

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written to people who lived in
Philippi.

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The city of Philippi.
I got his name from still up to

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Second who was the father of
Alexander, the Great.

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When Alexander the when Philip
the second seized the throne it

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was 359 years b.c. and Macedonia
the area which he took over at

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that point was just a small area
about the size of the state of

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Vermont or Maryland.
And it was a small segment of a

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large region, which we know as
Thrace now.

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Still up the second enlarge this
town, he improved it and he

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named it after himself.
Just like David said, people

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would do people name things
after themselves.

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They want to be famous Philip, I
is gone.

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It’s in ruins.
Our brother Mansfield this

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morning and his talk told us
about the ruins of the city of

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Corinth that he’s walked in the
City of Philippi is in equally

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poor repair.
Even Ephesus had switch has

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glorious.
Ruins are still ruins, but so,

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so who talks about Philip II
today?

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The only reason Phillipi is
important.

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The only reason most of us have
ever heard of fill up high, is

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because Paul wrote a letter to
them, not because of anything

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that happened there.
Other than what we have recorded

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in our Bible.
Fill up.

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The second says I want to be
famous.

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I’m going to name this.
City after me, and he didn’t

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make it famous at all.
It was Paul really that.

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Did it even for the world today?
Now, this city was situated 10

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miles from the Gulf of neapolis,
northwest of the island of face

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Us in the Aegean Sea.
Paul would have considered a

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city to his nor let you know
everything we relate to.

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What’s from us.
I’m talking to some of the

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brothers and sisters, young
people here from Detroit, and I

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say you easterners, and they
don’t consider themselves

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easterners because they say,
hey, we’re in the midwest.

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What to us, they’re East.
You see if you’re in Detroit and

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you think New York is east and I
asked and if you’re in New York

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you think England is east and so
it’s all depends on where you

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are.
Is the weather thing is Or south

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or east, or west to you.
And so, this area was North to

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Paul because he lived in Tarsus
which was south of this area two

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centuries after The city of
Philippi was conquered by Philip

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the second.
It was divided into four

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political districts, the area
and the famous Roman general

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Amelia’s Palace Gets the credit
for the decisive Victory, near

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Mount Olympus on the western
shore of the Gulf of Salonika in

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the year of 168 BC.
By this time, the gold mines are

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Philip.
I see there was gold and there’s

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gold in them, thar Hills, it
was, we know and we talked about

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the Gold Rush of California and
the gold.

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How is all gone?
While there was gold in them,

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thar Hills back in Philippi and
Philip dug it all out.

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So, This time, the city has
declined is like some of the

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Gold Rush cities of California,
which are just ghost towns.

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Hadn’t gotten quite that bad.
But it was not a very prominent

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City anymore.
And then in the year, 146, BC

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Macedonia became one of the six
provinces governed by Rome.

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And, as a result of this, the
city was enlarged and became

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more important, again, it became
a battle place for him.

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Important battle that took place
in 42 BC between Brutus and

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Cassius Defenders of the Roman
Republic on one side and Antony

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and Octavian, who were the
Avengers of Caesars death on the

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other.
After two engagements Antony and

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Octavian were victorious Brutus,
and Cassius were dead.

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After this, it was made into a
Roman Colony.

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Anthony settle some of his
disbanded veterans there in 31

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BC, there was a big naval battle
between Antony and Octavian and

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a cocktail via was Victorious
over Anthony.

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And why did Anthony leave lose
the battle.

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Well, he’d become infatuated
with this beautiful Egyptian

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queen who had previously been
the Mistress of Julius Caesar,

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her name was Cleopatra,
realizing the hopelessness of

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their cause, both Anthony and
Cleopatra.

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Committed, suicide and Octavian,
became the sole head of the

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Roman Empire.
As a result of this.

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He was crowned Caesar on August
of 27th and 29th, base 3.

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And from, then on, he was known
as all gustus.

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Caesar, I guess because he had
happened in August.

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Philip.
I now is a Roman colony and it’s

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a, it’s a miniature roll.
It’s a, it’s they want to do

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everything that roamed in.
They were like a little kid who

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falls his daddy around, he wants
to do everything that Daddy did.

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Well Philip, I look at Roman,
whatever room.

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That’s what we do.
They enjoyed all the rights and

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the Privileges of Roman citizens
such as freedom from scourging,

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From arrest, except in extreme
cases, and the right to appeal

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to the emperor.
This is kind of an interesting

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background.
They were not supposed to do

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anything to a Roman like
scourging without a proper

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trial.
We’ll see later.

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What happened there?
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writing this letter in writing
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Mentions things in this letter
that aren’t any other letter, he

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writes, look at First, Look at
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so that my Bonds in Christ are
manifest in all the palace and

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in all other places.
Now he doesn’t mention this in

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any of his other letters but you
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And a lot of the people from
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and probably some of the
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So that the people in Philip I
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and they would be familiar with
the guards and the end, the end

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the the palace and all of the
things that are well known for

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example, you any of you are here
from Oh well, say the San

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Francisco area.
Well you’re familiar, if you’re

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down here, your finger, what’s
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Some of the rest of us wouldn’t
be but he they knew all about

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romance.
So he mentions things in this

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chapter.
That he mentions another chapter

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for Philippians verse 22.
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Chiefly they that are of Caesars
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So Paul’s been busy, Paul has
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being changed, huh?
A soldier, he’s been teaching

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the people that worked for
Caesar, imagine working in the

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White House and VY and getting
all the people that work for

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Regan, it christadelphians or
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But some of them, that’s the
kind of thing except that he

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wouldn’t be our prisoner in the
white house, and he was a

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prisoner in Rome.
It’s helpful for us, when we

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study this letter to recall how
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start.
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Brethren and sisters in
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letter to the Philippians.
So by stirring up your pure

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Minds by way of remembrance, as
Peter tells us let’s see what we

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can learn that will help us in
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You remember that, the first
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his second.
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It’s somewhere around the year,
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Timothy joins the group and then
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located on the south of what is
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ancient Troy, they’re in a
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They don’t know what to do.
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because I think this is a
condition that we sometimes get

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in we want to do, right?
But we don’t know what to do.

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And we’re going to learn today
what you do, when you don’t know

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what to do, because you do do
something when you don’t know

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what to do.
But a lot of people don’t, I

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don’t know what to do.
So I’ll sit out and that’s not

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what Paul did.
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He knows he’s doing God’s work.
He knows God wants to go out and

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preach.
He’s trying to do what God says,

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but every time he goes up
against the door shut, he goes

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to another Orange Show.
We lift this and we’ll see Acts

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chapter.
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Verse 6.
Now when they had gone through

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phrygia and the region of
galatia, they were forbidden by

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the Holy Spirit, to preach the
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That we don’t know why we’re not
told just says, God says, don’t

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go there.
Sometimes we go, where we ought

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not go and do what we ought.
Not because we want to, I can

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remember a picture of our story
about a lumberjack and he didn’t

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like his job and he wanted to
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So he comes into town one day
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And Hazel.
What did you do with your job?

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He says, well I just decided I
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I threw my ex up in the air as
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The sometimes we’re like that.
I mean, God is trying to guide

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us and we won’t.
We Do what we want.

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We’re instead of asking God,
we’re telling God, and so we

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tell God what we want to do, and
if he’s closes the door, we go,

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we jumper, right?
We try to climb the kind of gate

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or knock it down or something.
God knows what’s best for us?

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We really don’t.
We think we do was like a little

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kitty, you know I want the one
another piece of candy, Mom and

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Daddy knows best.
Oh no, we wanted a piece of

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candy.
Well you’re mean you don’t love

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me if you don’t give me another
piece of candy, you know that

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you love them because you’re not
giving Giving him another piece,

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but they don’t understand that.
We’re like little kitties to God

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and we need this.
Sign up here is wonderful and I

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didn’t know they were going to
have it here, but it’s the theme

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of our talk today and I hope
that you know where it is.

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And I hope, you know, the rest
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Because if you don’t today, God
willing, if you cooperate, you

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will tomorrow because it’s your
whole work for tonight.

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We’re going to have homework and
we can’t make you do it.

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No one can make anyone else do
anything, not even God.

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It will make us be good so he
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You don’t want to do it.
You don’t have to But if you

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will do it, you’ll be richer.
And more successful as a result

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trust in the Lord, with all
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That means you don’t trust in
you and yourself and lean not

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unto thine, own understanding in
all, thy ways acknowledge Him,

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and then I’m wonderful.
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He will direct your paths but
not, if you want to know where

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you want to go and do what you
want to do, and tell God what

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you wanting to God.
This is the way I’m gonna do it.

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No, in all your ways acknowledge
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First, your trust in him.
Now we came up on my winding

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Mountain Road up here.
What’s the curse?

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Can you imagine driving up this
Mountain Road with somebody and

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you didn’t trust the driver?
And so every time you came to a

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curve you grown over and grab
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Well.
We would all be feeling sad at

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the fact that you’re down to
bottom of the hill bout now.

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If you’re going to get in a car
with a person, you better trust

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them.
If you don’t trust them enough

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to put your life in their hands
to ride with them, don’t live

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with them, but we do that with a
car and we don’t do that with

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God.
Trust in the Lord, with all

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thine heart, don’t lean on your
own understanding, in all your

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ways, acknowledge God and then,
and that’s everything in the

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qualification up to that point.
It’s only there that God will

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direct your paths not until you
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And so that’s exactly what Paul
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he’s trying to go to Asia and
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So verse 7 after they were come
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They are seated going to
Bethesda but no he can’t go

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there.
So they passed by the saying,

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they came down, a troll us.
Poles in the dinner he’s trying

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to do God’s work and he doesn’t
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And if you trust in the Lord,
with all your heart, you don’t

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lean on your own understanding,
if in all your ways acknowledge

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God, then.
Do what happened to Paul?

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Not the same way necessarily but
the same thing, the god that you

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and I worship is the same God
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just as all-powerful and
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as he was in those days.
I mean, we don’t have the gift

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of the Holy Spirit, like, Paul
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We cannot raise the dead and
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But that doesn’t mean that the
god that we worship is any less

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powerful than the god of he
worship, and God will direct

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your wives.
If every bit as much as he

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directed Paul’s life, it isn’t
that because there’s no open

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Vision today, therefore, we do
not have God’s help in our

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lives.
Today, you have God working in.

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life just as fervently, just as
real as he worked in Paul’s, but

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not, if you don’t trust him, not
if you don’t believe it, not, if

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you’re trusting your own wisdom
and your old understanding and

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you telling God what you want,
You don’t lean on your own

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understanding.
You don’t rely on your own

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brainpower.
You say, God, you’re am I what

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do you want me to do?
But you don’t stop now.

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You get up and you start moving,
you put a little rat in a maze

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and you put some cheese at the
other end and he goes up and he

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bumps into a wall.
What is the rat do?

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But he’s just certain cries.
No, he turns and he wants

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another wall.
Now, what does he do?

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Oh my goodness, I might as well
give up a book to walls.

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He turns again and he finds an
old me, but he bumps another

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wall and he goes through that
maze bumping into walls and

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turning and bumping into walls
and turning and bumping into

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walls and but he keeps moving,
and he gets the cheese.

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Now you and I are to be active
in God’s service and the way we

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do it is by we get moving and we
don’t always know exactly what

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God wants us to do.
And he doesn’t, we don’t always

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know where he wants us to go,
but we don’t do like the

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Lumberjack and decide that we’re
going to do this, no matter

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what.
We ask God to open doors, and

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close doors.
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we turn.
And so that’s what happened to

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Paul.
So Paul receives in a night

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vision, this message of a man
saying come over to Macedonia,

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we need help in Macedonia,
that’s where we’re ago.

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And so what did they do?
Well, they went well, no.

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No, I think I think after we
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guide our steps, and we believe
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Well, let’s don’t do anything
for a while, let’s sit and

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cogitate on it.
That’s what many of us do even

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after the door opens with the
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Well, I’m kind of tired right
now away to see if it’s open

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tomorrow.
Look, look!

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Look, look at verse 10 and after
they had seen the vision, two

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weeks later.
We Never to go to Macedonia.

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No immediately right now.
That’s the key right now.

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Keep going.
Keep moving.

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You don’t always know what
you’re supposed to do.

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When you think you know get
going.

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If it turns out not to be keep
going, God, will guide your

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steps God, feeds the birds.
He doesn’t put the food in their

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mouth.
You ever seen a little bird out

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here with somebody?
Gently food down his little

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mouth and it’s just screaming
and hollering.

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Nope, the birds got to get up
every morning and look for it

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but God feeds the birds that
such truth God, guide your life

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but you gotta move, he won’t do
it.

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If you’re sitting down, get
going immediately, they wanted

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to do God’s work and that’s one
of the most important lessons we

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can learn.
From today’s session is to get

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moving and try to do what God
wants us to do.

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If we don’t know what to do,
take it to the Lord in prayer,

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ask him to guide your steps.
Then get going.

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If you hit a closed-door, then
turn again.

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Hit another close to it turning
it, but just keep going.

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That’s the key to service in the
truth.

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Once they knew what to do, they
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I think sometimes we need to
learn from that.

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We sometimes we have a contact.
The truth core has been in

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Glendale the last two weeks and
we had contacts coming out, our

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ears and they’ve gone out.
And they’ve seen these people

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and they have interest
interested, some of them, some

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of them in the truth.
And now they’re going to leave

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us with all these interested
people, and we ought to sit down

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and think about it.
No, there’s a work to do, get

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doing it.
There’s a time to pray and

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there’s a time to move and it’s
a it’s remember Nehemiah they

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prayed and worked.
They kept their Spears in their

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hand and they pray and they did
the, you could have prayed and

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said, well God, you know just
open the doors and make that

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make that make the Wall, come
alive.

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No.
They had to put each brick on

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one at a time.
God could have gotten rid of all

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their enemies but he doesn’t do
it that way.

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They had to do the work
themselves and they had problems

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00:27:22,800 –> 00:27:26,600
and they had Temptations and
they had dangers, but they did

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the work because that’s the way
we’re supposed to.

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Now Solomon gave us this advice
and again, this isn’t anything.

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00:27:33,300 –> 00:27:37,200
We don’t already know.
It’s not, I’m not going to teach

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00:27:37,200 –> 00:27:39,400
you ask think hardly you don’t
already know.

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00:27:39,900 –> 00:27:45,300
All we want to do this week is
to get you motivated to doing

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00:27:45,300 –> 00:27:50,000
what you already know to do.
And there isn’t any one of us

437
00:27:50,000 –> 00:27:56,100
that can’t do more than we are.
The biggest room you have in

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00:27:56,100 –> 00:28:01,200
your house.
Is the room for improvement.

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00:28:03,900 –> 00:28:08,200
So what you, what whatsoever you
find to do whatsoever.

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Thy hand findeth to do?
So it Solomon sit down and think

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about it.
No.

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00:28:15,000 –> 00:28:17,700
Is this do it?
No, it doesn’t say that.

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00:28:17,700 –> 00:28:22,000
It says, do it with my might.
Why?

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00:28:22,700 –> 00:28:25,200
Well, because you’re not gonna
be here forever.

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There’s no work nor device nor
knowledge nor wisdom in the

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grave whither.
Thou goest all the people in

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00:28:32,600 –> 00:28:37,000
Philippi, are gone.
All the people in, Corinth are

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gone, all the people in Ephesus
are gone.

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00:28:40,700 –> 00:28:42,700
All the people in Leia to see
us.

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00:28:44,000 –> 00:28:50,000
Our God and some of them are
going to in the final analysis.

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00:28:51,200 –> 00:28:56,400
Be gone.
Forever now because they

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00:28:56,500 –> 00:28:59,900
couldn’t have been saved now
because God didn’t want them to

453
00:28:59,900 –> 00:29:02,800
be saved now because Jesus
didn’t die so they could be

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00:29:02,800 –> 00:29:06,900
saved.
Just because We’re going to

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learn from the book of
Philippians that most people are

456
00:29:11,700 –> 00:29:16,500
too wrapped up in their own
little world and they have no

457
00:29:16,500 –> 00:29:20,600
time for God.
And that in his class this

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00:29:20,600 –> 00:29:23,400
morning, he quoted the problems
of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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All the terrible things they did
in Sodom and Gomorrah, he told

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00:29:26,400 –> 00:29:27,700
us about them.
And you think?

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00:29:27,700 –> 00:29:29,500
Oh, no, tell me about the, oh,
that’s terrible.

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00:29:30,400 –> 00:29:32,300
He doesn’t mention any of the
sexual immorality.

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00:29:32,300 –> 00:29:33,600
That went on there.
He says, they ate they drank.

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00:29:33,600 –> 00:29:35,300
They bought they sold.
They do, they plan it.

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00:29:35,800 –> 00:29:37,800
And he Miniature putter.
Those are not, there’s nothing

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00:29:37,800 –> 00:29:40,000
wrong with those things.
Oh yes, there is.

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00:29:40,100 –> 00:29:43,000
If that’s all you do.
There’s something terrible wrong

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00:29:43,000 –> 00:29:44,900
with those things because
they’re crowding.

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00:29:44,900 –> 00:29:48,200
God, let out of your life.
That’s what’s wrong.

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00:29:49,200 –> 00:29:51,400
Any one of those by themselves
is not wrong?

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00:29:51,500 –> 00:29:53,200
This is water.
This is no sin.

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00:29:55,400 –> 00:30:02,800
But it’s not.
It’s a sin, it’s not the thing.

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00:30:03,300 –> 00:30:06,400
It’s what we think about it.
And what we love and what we

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spend our time in, and what we
what we engage Our Lives is so

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00:30:12,000 –> 00:30:13,300
what you are?
You find to do?

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00:30:13,300 –> 00:30:19,100
He says, do it with all your
might Now, at this point, going

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00:30:19,100 –> 00:30:22,600
back to acts 16, we have Luke
joining the party and it’s a

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00:30:22,608 –> 00:30:25,900
marvelous thing how Luke comes
in and out all the party.

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00:30:25,900 –> 00:30:28,300
You can always tell when Lux
with them and when he isn’t, I’m

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00:30:28,300 –> 00:30:31,100
sure you already know this.
But you tell by the veins and

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00:30:31,100 –> 00:30:34,600
the Wiis, when they went hair
and they did this, then looks

482
00:30:34,600 –> 00:30:36,800
not along.
Then when it says we win here

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00:30:36,800 –> 00:30:39,400
and we did that, then Lux with
them and they.

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00:30:39,400 –> 00:30:42,000
So Luke was it with them.
Then Luke comes to Phillip, I

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00:30:42,000 –> 00:30:44,400
with them and we’ll see that
when they left Phillipi, Luke

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00:30:44,400 –> 00:30:47,200
stayed there.
And so, they went on to

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00:30:47,208 –> 00:30:50,400
thessalonica.
He didn’t go because he was

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00:30:50,600 –> 00:30:54,500
commissioned by Paul to continue
to help this little Ecclesia

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00:30:54,500 –> 00:30:59,500
that was started there.
So, we have a little company now

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00:31:00,800 –> 00:31:07,900
of Paul and Silas, and Timothy,
and Luke, and they’re all eager

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00:31:08,000 –> 00:31:12,700
to go into Macedonia.
And to preach the gospel, Are

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00:31:12,700 –> 00:31:17,100
you eager to preach the gospel?
I mean it’s just something you

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00:31:17,100 –> 00:31:23,100
really want to do.
You is get your meat to do God’s

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00:31:23,100 –> 00:31:25,600
work.
Does everybody?

495
00:31:26,300 –> 00:31:30,600
Everybody that knows you do they
know your christadelphians?

496
00:31:32,700 –> 00:31:38,600
I worked with a man once who I
knew a man once and I happened

497
00:31:38,600 –> 00:31:40,100
to mention to another
businessman.

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00:31:41,500 –> 00:31:45,000
That he mentioned this person’s
name and I said oh you know him

499
00:31:45,000 –> 00:31:48,800
I know he’s a christadelphians
he says he’s the what I said,

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00:31:48,800 –> 00:31:50,900
he’s a christadelphians
McChrystal, he’s Chris Duncan.

501
00:31:51,300 –> 00:31:55,200
He’s he’s a that’s a church.
I said yeah he’s you mean he

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00:31:55,200 –> 00:32:00,500
goes to church Here was a
christadelphians, it was so

503
00:32:00,500 –> 00:32:03,600
clever and hiding his light
under the bushel basket.

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00:32:03,600 –> 00:32:07,000
That nobody knew he went to any
church will look

505
00:32:07,000 –> 00:32:13,400
christadelphians.
So are you eager to do God’s

506
00:32:13,400 –> 00:32:15,500
work?
Have you ever thought about who

507
00:32:15,500 –> 00:32:18,300
God has on Earth to do his work
except us?

508
00:32:19,200 –> 00:32:21,600
I mean, here we are.
Imagine that it’s of

509
00:32:21,600 –> 00:32:24,200
christadelphians instead of
being religious body.

510
00:32:24,400 –> 00:32:28,500
We are a sales organization and
we have widgets and we have the

511
00:32:28,500 –> 00:32:31,400
best widget you have ever seen
it widgets better than anybody

512
00:32:31,400 –> 00:32:34,800
else’s with you, and you are the
sales force for the widgets.

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00:32:35,000 –> 00:32:37,600
And I got this great big factor
with thousands of people went

514
00:32:37,600 –> 00:32:40,700
making widgets and I say, Guam,
The story about the widgets.

515
00:32:41,800 –> 00:32:45,000
But nobody does.
And the the widgets keep piling

516
00:32:45,000 –> 00:32:48,300
up and they were house, it
doesn’t make you just how good a

517
00:32:48,308 –> 00:32:50,400
product you got.
If you don’t tell people about

518
00:32:50,400 –> 00:32:54,700
it and who do we have to tell
the truth as it is in Christ?

519
00:32:54,700 –> 00:32:57,700
But christadelphians what
religious body can?

520
00:32:57,700 –> 00:33:02,300
We hire to go out and preach
Christ as he is except us.

521
00:33:04,300 –> 00:33:09,600
There’s nobody, there’s no group
that I know of, that will tell

522
00:33:09,600 –> 00:33:13,300
it like it really is except us
and we don’t do it.

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00:33:16,100 –> 00:33:23,600
God is, depending on you and me
to be his ambassadors.

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00:33:25,000 –> 00:33:29,500
To spread the good news of his
coming Kingdom.

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00:33:30,300 –> 00:33:36,700
And if we don’t do it, who’s
going to I want each of you to

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00:33:36,700 –> 00:33:40,900
think of that, personally,
because we are workers together

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00:33:40,900 –> 00:33:45,100
with God.
Paul was a worker together with

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00:33:45,100 –> 00:33:49,000
God, is in partnership with you.
Jesus said, 12 says, with Gina

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00:33:49,400 –> 00:33:51,300
that I must be about my father’s
business.

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00:33:51,400 –> 00:33:54,900
Are you in business with God?
Are you doing God’s business, or

531
00:33:54,900 –> 00:33:57,200
your business?
But the Mansfield again,

532
00:33:57,200 –> 00:34:00,600
mentioned about getting rich by
being prospering and business,

533
00:34:01,000 –> 00:34:04,600
whose business are you in?
If I say to you, what do you do?

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00:34:05,400 –> 00:34:07,500
Most of you say, well, I do
this, I do that, I’m an

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00:34:07,500 –> 00:34:10,600
engineer, I drive a bus, I, I
mow The Lawns, I did, you know,

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00:34:10,900 –> 00:34:13,699
well that’s fine, we did for
what do you do?

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00:34:15,100 –> 00:34:20,900
You really answer is?
I work for Jesus, I work for

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00:34:20,900 –> 00:34:25,199
God, I’m in business with them.
I’m about my father’s business.

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00:34:25,199 –> 00:34:30,100
I’m a worker together with God.
Are you how do you do that?

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00:34:32,000 –> 00:34:40,199
By the way you live?
and by the things you say, No

541
00:34:40,199 –> 00:34:46,500
American Express has a slogan
for their credit card, which

542
00:34:46,500 –> 00:34:51,199
says don’t leave home without it
and they’re talking about a

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00:34:51,207 –> 00:34:56,500
credit card.
I believe, with all my heart

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00:34:56,900 –> 00:35:01,100
that every christadelphians,
every time you go out of your

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00:35:01,100 –> 00:35:07,300
house, should take with you in a
pocket or purse, some kind of a

546
00:35:07,300 –> 00:35:09,800
pamphlet.
I I sometimes I wear them out

547
00:35:09,800 –> 00:35:11,800
before, I give them away and I’m
ashamed of that.

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00:35:12,600 –> 00:35:15,700
But this is a little one that
that it doesn’t matter what it

549
00:35:15,700 –> 00:35:17,400
is.
Just so you’ve got something on

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00:35:17,400 –> 00:35:20,100
you about christadelphians.
I have this little in about

551
00:35:20,100 –> 00:35:22,600
answering your questions about
christadelphians and I have

552
00:35:22,600 –> 00:35:25,400
another little one, which I’m
blessed to have a son-in-law

553
00:35:25,400 –> 00:35:27,900
that’s a printer that printed me
up and it’s a whole little

554
00:35:27,900 –> 00:35:31,600
booklet about the our faith and
it’s got a little time chart in

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00:35:31,600 –> 00:35:35,000
the back and most of you have
already seen it, but doesn’t

556
00:35:35,000 –> 00:35:36,600
matter what it is.
It’s just that you have

557
00:35:36,600 –> 00:35:38,500
something on, you could be a
little business.

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00:35:38,600 –> 00:35:41,300
Discard my son has a little
business card after because the

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00:35:41,300 –> 00:35:44,300
proofs of the beliefs of the
Bible and his name and address

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00:35:44,300 –> 00:35:47,500
on the back of it, but don’t
leave home without it and then

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00:35:47,500 –> 00:35:50,000
try to get rid of it because it
doesn’t do any good there.

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00:35:50,600 –> 00:35:55,100
It only does your good if you
get it out but you should be you

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00:35:55,100 –> 00:35:58,600
know you’re the only by know
some people have ever read what

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00:35:58,600 –> 00:36:03,800
the Epistle of God.
According to you, I mean, you

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00:36:03,800 –> 00:36:05,700
people are reading you every
day.

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00:36:05,700 –> 00:36:09,200
Everybody, you see is reading.
You do they know of Love for the

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00:36:09,200 –> 00:36:12,100
truth to, they know of your hope
for the coming Kingdom.

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00:36:12,100 –> 00:36:14,900
Have you told them about it?
How you going to put it?

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00:36:14,900 –> 00:36:17,800
What if you did have a pill that
would cure cancer and you saw

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00:36:17,800 –> 00:36:20,500
people dying of cancer and
wasting away and you had the

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00:36:20,500 –> 00:36:22,600
pill in your pocket and you
could give it to him and save

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00:36:22,600 –> 00:36:26,000
him and you wouldn’t you’d be
cruel when you and would be

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00:36:26,000 –> 00:36:28,400
merciless?
That would be terrible.

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00:36:30,100 –> 00:36:32,200
Everybody you and I know is
dying.

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00:36:33,100 –> 00:36:36,200
They have an incurable disease
called sin and you’ve got the

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00:36:36,200 –> 00:36:38,600
answer to that.
And if you don’t tell them about

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00:36:38,600 –> 00:36:45,600
it, who’s going to So Paul, he
was out to do it and he did it.

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00:36:46,500 –> 00:36:51,900
And so they take off and they
sail from troll Us in verse 11

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00:36:51,900 –> 00:36:57,300
of Acts chapter 16 and they’re
on their way to Philippi.

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Therefore loosing from chores.
We came with a straight course

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00:37:00,000 –> 00:37:02,900
to stand with rakia and the next
day to neapolis and from thence

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00:37:02,900 –> 00:37:05,100
to Philippi.
They last, they lost no time.

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00:37:05,200 –> 00:37:09,600
If you’ll check Acts chapter 20
and verse 6, you’ll see the same

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trip.
Took five days.

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00:37:11,200 –> 00:37:14,000
Opposite way.
I mean, how far is the how long

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00:37:14,000 –> 00:37:16,100
does it take to drive from LA to
San Francisco?

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00:37:16,300 –> 00:37:18,200
How long does it take to drive
from San Francisco to LA?

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00:37:18,300 –> 00:37:20,000
He’s like what’s the same
distance?

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00:37:20,400 –> 00:37:22,400
I mean if you if you do it so
many hours this way I’ll be able

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00:37:22,400 –> 00:37:25,200
doing so many hours that way.
Well they went they went to

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00:37:25,200 –> 00:37:27,800
days, they came back in five,
that’s how anxious he was.

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00:37:27,800 –> 00:37:30,200
Now maybe he had a good win and
other things to help him too,

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00:37:30,400 –> 00:37:32,600
but God always help you if
you’re trying to do, what’s

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00:37:32,600 –> 00:37:34,300
right?
He’ll even has a wind blowing at

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00:37:34,300 –> 00:37:39,400
your back.
Acts 20:6 and we sailed away

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00:37:39,400 –> 00:37:42,900
from Phillipi after the days of
unleavened bread and came in

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00:37:43,200 –> 00:37:46,600
unto them and Trust in five
days, it took five days to go

598
00:37:46,600 –> 00:37:48,600
the other way.
Took two days to go this way,

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00:37:48,900 –> 00:37:51,800
God was blessing them.
He was helping them when they

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00:37:51,808 –> 00:37:55,600
got to the appleís, they walk 10
miles to Philip, I now God had

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00:37:55,600 –> 00:37:58,900
definitely sent them to fill up
high so when he got the Phillipi

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00:37:59,000 –> 00:38:01,700
God has said come over to
Philippi and help us.

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00:38:02,000 –> 00:38:06,000
So as this little band of for
Brethren walk into Philippi,

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00:38:06,200 –> 00:38:08,300
There was a big banner across
the street.

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00:38:08,400 –> 00:38:10,700
Welcome christadelphians to
Phillipi.

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00:38:12,200 –> 00:38:16,600
Right.
Wrong because God doesn’t work

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00:38:16,600 –> 00:38:20,600
that way.
They come to Philippi, they’re

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00:38:20,600 –> 00:38:25,100
doing God’s work and yet.
No such welcome is there.

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00:38:28,700 –> 00:38:32,400
What did they do when they get
the Philippine where they go?

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00:38:32,900 –> 00:38:35,800
Well, they went straight to the
synagogue, of course, because

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00:38:36,000 –> 00:38:38,600
that’s what Paul always did.
When he got to a city, he went

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00:38:38,600 –> 00:38:41,400
to the synagogue because that
was a place where he could find

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00:38:41,400 –> 00:38:43,600
people to preach to.
I mean, you got to find people

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00:38:43,600 –> 00:38:45,900
to preach to, right?
So he’s going to the synagogue

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00:38:45,900 –> 00:38:47,400
to pray.
No.

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00:38:48,300 –> 00:38:50,100
There’s no synagogue in
Philippi.

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00:38:50,900 –> 00:38:54,300
No synagogue why?
Well, if you look that up in a

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00:38:54,300 –> 00:38:57,600
Bible dictionary, you find out
and Unger’s Bible dictionary,

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says it was required that a
synagogue should be built,

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00:39:01,500 –> 00:39:04,300
wherever 10 Israelites were
dueling are.

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00:39:05,600 –> 00:39:08,700
In the larger towns.
He says there was a considerable

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00:39:08,700 –> 00:39:11,100
number of synagogues.
So there’s some say, he’s had a

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00:39:11,107 –> 00:39:14,800
lot of them like Jerusalem and
Alexandria, and Rome, but in

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00:39:14,800 –> 00:39:19,900
Filipino synagogue, Well why?
Well, maybe there were less than

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00:39:19,900 –> 00:39:24,200
10 Jews or perhaps the Jews.
There were so weak in the faith

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00:39:24,200 –> 00:39:27,800
that they didn’t bother to build
one or maybe it was because they

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00:39:27,800 –> 00:39:30,300
had been forbidden to Bill one.
Although there were synagogues

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00:39:30,300 –> 00:39:35,200
in Rome but you remember just if
you check chapter 18 here of

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00:39:35,200 –> 00:39:40,200
Acts and verse 2 we find that at
Priscilla and Aquila had just

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00:39:40,200 –> 00:39:44,400
been kicked out of Rome because
Claudius had never buddy, leave

631
00:39:44,400 –> 00:39:47,100
Rome.
And since Phillip I copied Rome

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00:39:47,100 –> 00:39:50,800
Maybe They said, well, if
they’re not welcome, the Jews

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00:39:50,800 –> 00:39:52,000
aren’t welcome in Rome.
They’re not.

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00:39:52,000 –> 00:39:54,900
Welcome, and Philip, I either.
So that could be the way reason,

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00:39:54,900 –> 00:40:00,500
because this Emperor Claudius,
who reigned from 8040. 1254 was

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00:40:00,500 –> 00:40:04,700
a very mean to the Jews.
At first, he was friendly and

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00:40:04,700 –> 00:40:06,500
then he turned it turning turned
against him.

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00:40:06,600 –> 00:40:08,900
Anyway, whatever the reason.
No synagogue.

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00:40:09,300 –> 00:40:12,800
So, what are they going to do?
Well, we better go on to

640
00:40:12,808 –> 00:40:14,100
thessalonica.
There’s one there.

641
00:40:14,100 –> 00:40:15,100
There’s no you stopped in the
film.

642
00:40:15,500 –> 00:40:18,400
Is, this is a Godless City.
You don’t have her

643
00:40:18,400 –> 00:40:20,900
christadelphians.
Say we mentioned about, would

644
00:40:20,900 –> 00:40:22,300
you have Bible lectures in your
city?

645
00:40:22,300 –> 00:40:24,800
Oh no.
Our sound is such a Godless that

646
00:40:24,800 –> 00:40:26,800
there’s no use having Bible
lectures in our town.

647
00:40:27,100 –> 00:40:29,600
Nobody comes to Bible lectures,
no, use doing it.

648
00:40:30,700 –> 00:40:34,500
Isn’t that an awful attitude to
decide that all the people in

649
00:40:34,500 –> 00:40:38,900
your town aren’t worth saving.
Now, maybe they are but why do

650
00:40:38,900 –> 00:40:41,900
you decide that?
That’s God’s prerogative, your

651
00:40:41,900 –> 00:40:45,200
to go out there and do his work
and he’ll bless those that he

652
00:40:45,200 –> 00:40:49,500
wants your call them.
We have no right to not.

653
00:40:49,500 –> 00:40:51,800
Do God’s work, because we say,
oh well, you never get any

654
00:40:51,800 –> 00:40:56,500
results in that town, and there
are closures in cities where

655
00:40:56,500 –> 00:40:58,400
they’ve given up having lectures
because he said, everybody

656
00:40:58,400 –> 00:41:02,100
here’s Carlos.
And that’s the wrong attitude.

657
00:41:02,800 –> 00:41:06,700
So we preach wherever we can
find people, we preach.

658
00:41:06,900 –> 00:41:09,200
So, where do you go?
When there’s no synagogue.

659
00:41:09,200 –> 00:41:12,200
Well, they went to the Riverside
and now they found some women

660
00:41:12,200 –> 00:41:15,200
down there that were praying and
you don’t.

661
00:41:15,300 –> 00:41:19,100
It’s interesting.
You you look you find you find

662
00:41:19,100 –> 00:41:21,900
what you’re looking for.
You know this is true.

663
00:41:22,000 –> 00:41:23,600
You know people are always
looking for trouble.

664
00:41:24,300 –> 00:41:26,300
You know what do they find?
They always find trouble.

665
00:41:26,300 –> 00:41:28,500
Don’t say you find people are
looking for trouble.

666
00:41:28,500 –> 00:41:30,300
They never go without their
always plenty.

667
00:41:30,400 –> 00:41:33,000
Of it.
Well, you probably heard the

668
00:41:33,008 –> 00:41:35,200
story about to foal sitting on
the airplane and, you know, on

669
00:41:35,200 –> 00:41:38,800
airplanes, you do Converse and
they do men got to talking and

670
00:41:38,800 –> 00:41:40,300
they both found out that they
had.

671
00:41:41,000 –> 00:41:44,400
Each of them had lived in India
for 20 years.

672
00:41:45,500 –> 00:41:47,000
Because they’ve never met
because then there’s a pretty

673
00:41:47,000 –> 00:41:49,700
big country and the one says,
well what did you do in India?

674
00:41:49,700 –> 00:41:53,000
And he’s so well, I was a
missionary and I was there

675
00:41:53,200 –> 00:41:57,400
teaching Christ to the people
and the other one says, well, I

676
00:41:57,400 –> 00:42:01,200
was a hunter and I was into
India hunting tigers.

677
00:42:02,800 –> 00:42:05,300
And the first always says, you
know, I was in India for 20

678
00:42:05,300 –> 00:42:10,200
years and I never saw a tiger.
The other one says I was in

679
00:42:10,200 –> 00:42:13,700
India for 20 years and I never
found anyone that believed in

680
00:42:13,700 –> 00:42:17,600
Christ.
But what happens is you find

681
00:42:17,600 –> 00:42:21,600
what you’re looking for.
If you’re not looking for people

682
00:42:21,800 –> 00:42:25,000
to teach the truth to, you’ll
find that it never happens that

683
00:42:25,000 –> 00:42:27,400
you bring up the truth.
Because, of course, you don’t

684
00:42:27,400 –> 00:42:29,400
want to bring it up that might
embarrass you, right?

685
00:42:29,900 –> 00:42:31,600
They might ask you something,
you don’t know, right?

686
00:42:31,700 –> 00:42:35,400
So, the best thing is in order
because your ego and your old

687
00:42:35,400 –> 00:42:38,600
self esteem is so important that
it’s better to forget about

688
00:42:38,600 –> 00:42:40,600
Christ and pat yourself on the
back.

689
00:42:42,000 –> 00:42:45,100
In other words, you think more
of self than Jesus Christ, that

690
00:42:45,100 –> 00:42:48,300
died for you.
Forget about yourself, think

691
00:42:48,300 –> 00:42:51,000
about Jesus.
They’re not gonna kill you.

692
00:42:51,000 –> 00:42:54,800
We live in a tolerant age.
Now, people may not agree with

693
00:42:54,800 –> 00:42:57,300
you but they don’t give you any
trouble really.

694
00:42:57,700 –> 00:43:01,600
So, so you need to find a way of
making sure that everybody that,

695
00:43:01,600 –> 00:43:04,300
you know, knows about your truth
in your home.

696
00:43:04,800 –> 00:43:08,800
So he goes to Phillipi and he
finds these women and you look

697
00:43:08,800 –> 00:43:12,500
at verse 14, what happens on a
certain woman named Lydia, a

698
00:43:12,500 –> 00:43:16,600
seller of purple of the city of
thyatira which worshipped God

699
00:43:16,600 –> 00:43:21,000
heard us.
Here is a rich woman.

700
00:43:21,100 –> 00:43:25,300
She was very wealthy because she
dealt in purple dye and purple,

701
00:43:25,300 –> 00:43:27,600
dye came from several different
ways.

702
00:43:27,600 –> 00:43:32,500
One was a little shellfish found
in the waters of The Phoenician

703
00:43:32,500 –> 00:43:35,700
coast and each shellfish.
You slit its throat and you got

704
00:43:35,700 –> 00:43:39,200
one drop of purple per fish.
Now, you want to make a cheaper

705
00:43:39,200 –> 00:43:40,700
greater purple, you could crush
them.

706
00:43:40,900 –> 00:43:44,100
And there was another way you
could get purple from a root

707
00:43:44,100 –> 00:43:48,400
that Drew near with our attire
was called a matter of They

708
00:43:48,400 –> 00:43:52,700
crush this matter route and they
made a more inexpensive grade of

709
00:43:52,700 –> 00:43:55,700
purple cloth.
But Philip I love purple because

710
00:43:55,700 –> 00:43:59,100
purple was a royal color and
Philip I was a little Rome, and

711
00:43:59,100 –> 00:44:01,100
Rome was a Royal City and we
want to be like Rome.

712
00:44:01,100 –> 00:44:02,900
So we’re going to wear purple
because they were purple.

713
00:44:03,500 –> 00:44:06,400
So purple was a very big seller
in Philippi.

714
00:44:06,600 –> 00:44:10,100
And so she was very rich because
it took a lot of money to sell

715
00:44:10,100 –> 00:44:11,400
purple.
And Philip I you had to have an

716
00:44:11,400 –> 00:44:14,600
inventory and she had a big
house there and she was wealthy

717
00:44:14,600 –> 00:44:16,700
and caught, you know.
No use talking the truth to rich

718
00:44:16,700 –> 00:44:17,800
people because they won’t.
Listen, right.

719
00:44:19,500 –> 00:44:22,300
Do this on anybody who will
listen and don’t refuse to

720
00:44:22,300 –> 00:44:24,400
preach because you think you’re
casting your Curt Pearls Before

721
00:44:24,400 –> 00:44:25,400
Swine?
Don’t you?

722
00:44:25,400 –> 00:44:28,000
And I decide who’s swine that’s
up to God.

723
00:44:28,400 –> 00:44:30,800
You just keep telling everybody.
You make that your

724
00:44:30,800 –> 00:44:33,400
christadelphians and they say,
what is that?

725
00:44:34,200 –> 00:44:36,100
And then I got a little story.
I don’t have time to tell you

726
00:44:36,107 –> 00:44:39,100
now but I was a little story.
I tell to everybody on the plane

727
00:44:39,100 –> 00:44:41,000
wherever I mean I got a little
story, I tell them and they

728
00:44:41,000 –> 00:44:43,000
always ask.
And every time they ask, they

729
00:44:43,000 –> 00:44:46,800
always ask me about my faith,
they always ask me because I

730
00:44:46,800 –> 00:44:49,900
work it around.
So they have to And then I don’t

731
00:44:49,900 –> 00:44:52,000
know, brought it up.
They did and then they bring it

732
00:44:52,008 –> 00:44:53,300
up.
Whoops, there you go.

733
00:44:53,500 –> 00:44:58,200
You asked, but that’s what we
should post to do.

734
00:44:58,200 –> 00:45:01,200
You see, I mean we’re working
together with God.

735
00:45:01,800 –> 00:45:04,600
So what happened to this?
Gal, what happened, what

736
00:45:04,600 –> 00:45:10,100
happened to Lydia?
Whose heart notice that the

737
00:45:10,100 –> 00:45:13,100
right in the middle of verse 40,
whose heart the Lord opened,

738
00:45:14,100 –> 00:45:17,100
that’s what happens when you go
out preaching the word you’re

739
00:45:17,107 –> 00:45:18,700
going to find.
Oh, and it’s so thrilling.

740
00:45:18,700 –> 00:45:22,000
When you find somebody whose
heart God opens.

741
00:45:22,600 –> 00:45:26,200
It’s so wonderful.
When you find a heart that God

742
00:45:26,200 –> 00:45:30,000
opens, you can’t Open Hearts,
that’s God’s work.

743
00:45:31,300 –> 00:45:35,600
But he needs your help because
he works through people, God

744
00:45:35,600 –> 00:45:38,600
works through weak people, like
a God doesn’t use them.

745
00:45:38,600 –> 00:45:41,400
But the, the great, the mighty,
not many of those are called

746
00:45:41,400 –> 00:45:45,100
just us for more, folks.
We’re the ones gods and when his

747
00:45:45,100 –> 00:45:47,000
ambassadors, he hasn’t have
anybody.

748
00:45:47,000 –> 00:45:50,200
But us now what happens when
you’re when Lydia’s heart gets

749
00:45:50,200 –> 00:45:52,000
open?
Well, she didn’t just say, well,

750
00:45:52,000 –> 00:45:54,200
that’s kind of nice, you know,
I’ll think about that.

751
00:45:55,200 –> 00:45:59,900
No, she was baptized and she
beside us saying if you judge

752
00:45:59,900 –> 00:46:04,800
me, faithful to the Lord come
and stay at my house right away.

753
00:46:04,800 –> 00:46:07,900
She was willing to do work for
Jesus for Paul.

754
00:46:08,100 –> 00:46:11,600
Because, love for God, does they
love for?

755
00:46:11,600 –> 00:46:13,300
God is active?
It’s not passive.

756
00:46:13,400 –> 00:46:15,900
I love Jesus more than anything
else in the world, or I think

757
00:46:15,900 –> 00:46:17,400
the truth is the greatest thing
in the world.

758
00:46:17,500 –> 00:46:19,700
Would you like to help his own?
No, I can’t do that.

759
00:46:19,700 –> 00:46:20,800
Would you like to?
Oh no.

760
00:46:20,800 –> 00:46:24,200
No, I’m too weak.
I don’t know how as too far.

761
00:46:24,200 –> 00:46:28,100
I have to work.
I got a some reason, do it.

762
00:46:29,300 –> 00:46:34,200
Lydia did what she could with
what she had, right.

763
00:46:34,200 –> 00:46:38,200
Where she was, she had a house
and they needed a place to stay

764
00:46:38,200 –> 00:46:41,800
and so she says, come and stay
with us and that is one of the

765
00:46:41,800 –> 00:46:46,200
lessons that we learn from being
a family of God.

766
00:46:46,500 –> 00:46:52,900
We open our homes to one another
Peter tells us in First Peter

767
00:46:53,100 –> 00:47:00,100
chapter 4 Verse 8.
And nine.

768
00:47:02,200 –> 00:47:06,100
Use Hospitality one to another
oh but that’s not the end of the

769
00:47:06,100 –> 00:47:08,800
verse use.
Hospitality Wanderer.

770
00:47:09,000 –> 00:47:12,700
You mean we got company again?
No not again, we got some more

771
00:47:12,700 –> 00:47:16,800
people coming.
Oh my goodness without grudging

772
00:47:16,800 –> 00:47:19,200
it says that’s the end of the
verse use.

773
00:47:19,200 –> 00:47:24,600
Hospitality one to another and
don’t complain as every man has

774
00:47:24,600 –> 00:47:27,500
received the gift even so
Minister the same one to another

775
00:47:27,600 –> 00:47:31,400
as good stewards of the manifold
grace of God.

776
00:47:32,000 –> 00:47:35,200
We’re supposed, you know, Jesus
tells you who to invite to your

777
00:47:35,200 –> 00:47:37,700
house, you think it’s your own
business who you invite your

778
00:47:37,700 –> 00:47:40,500
house, don’t you.
It’s not just tells you who to

779
00:47:40,500 –> 00:47:42,700
invite your house, you don’t
have a right to invite anybody,

780
00:47:42,700 –> 00:47:44,600
you want.
Well, it’s my house.

781
00:47:45,500 –> 00:47:47,500
No, it really isn’t.
It’s God’s house.

782
00:47:47,600 –> 00:47:49,100
Everything you have is come from
God.

783
00:47:49,300 –> 00:47:53,000
So when you have a banquet or
dinner or supper or t, whatever

784
00:47:53,000 –> 00:47:56,000
you want, don’t call your
friends, don’t call your

785
00:47:56,100 –> 00:47:59,800
relatives, don’t call the rich,
people, your neighbors.

786
00:48:01,100 –> 00:48:04,900
When you have a feast called the
poor, the maimed, the lame, the

787
00:48:04,900 –> 00:48:07,000
blind.
If you do that, you’ll get in

788
00:48:07,000 –> 00:48:09,800
the Kingdom.
So what he said, Thou shalt be

789
00:48:09,800 –> 00:48:12,500
blessed for they cannot
recompense.

790
00:48:12,500 –> 00:48:15,900
See, but you shall be
recompensed at the resurrection

791
00:48:15,900 –> 00:48:21,600
of the just we remember that
this beloved Apostle, Paul, he

792
00:48:21,600 –> 00:48:25,300
praised those who were
hospitable and second is third

793
00:48:25,300 –> 00:48:29,300
third epistle.
He, he says you do well, because

794
00:48:29,800 –> 00:48:32,800
whatsoever, you do to the Other
it and not only brother also,

795
00:48:32,800 –> 00:48:36,300
but two strangers.
He says, and so he’s praising

796
00:48:36,300 –> 00:48:38,600
Gaius here because Gaius was
hospitable.

797
00:48:38,900 –> 00:48:41,900
But look at the doctor fees
geographies hook, you don’t go

798
00:48:41,900 –> 00:48:44,300
to a doctor faces house, unless
you got an invitation, and you

799
00:48:44,300 –> 00:48:47,600
ain’t going to get one.
And Not only would he not have

800
00:48:47,600 –> 00:48:48,300
you?
But he’s gonna tell all the

801
00:48:48,300 –> 00:48:49,400
breath.
Don’t you have them over?

802
00:48:50,000 –> 00:48:53,200
Don’t you ready to do with them?
So diotrephes would love to have

803
00:48:53,200 –> 00:48:54,800
The Primitives.
He wouldn’t have Paul wouldn’t

804
00:48:54,800 –> 00:48:58,200
have a John and he also turned
the others away so that they

805
00:48:58,200 –> 00:49:00,600
wouldn’t have him either.
But you see?

806
00:49:00,900 –> 00:49:04,900
Lydia was different than that.
And if we want to be saved,

807
00:49:05,000 –> 00:49:09,000
we’ve got to be more like Lydia
and not at all like diotrephes.

808
00:49:09,800 –> 00:49:14,800
Romans chapter 12 seems to be a
perfect description of Lydia.

809
00:49:14,900 –> 00:49:19,900
Romans 12 verse 10 were told be
kindly affectioned one to

810
00:49:19,900 –> 00:49:24,500
another with brotherly love and
honour preferring one another.

811
00:49:25,000 –> 00:49:27,400
Now what have you got to do?
Be faithful.

812
00:49:27,400 –> 00:49:30,700
It not slothful in business, if
you’re in business, don’t cheat.

813
00:49:30,900 –> 00:49:35,100
Do a good job but it isn’t your
life, just you work in order to

814
00:49:35,100 –> 00:49:39,000
live for Jesus, but whatever
your job is, do it unto the

815
00:49:39,000 –> 00:49:41,600
Lord.
That’s awful and business

816
00:49:41,600 –> 00:49:45,100
serving the lord rejoicing in
Hope, patient in Tribulation

817
00:49:45,200 –> 00:49:49,000
continuing, instant in prayer
Distributing to the necessity of

818
00:49:49,000 –> 00:49:53,800
saints, given to hospitality.
So, there we have it.

819
00:49:53,800 –> 00:49:56,200
We’re told what we’re supposed
to do.

820
00:49:56,900 –> 00:50:00,600
We’re supposed to open our home,
to others and help.

821
00:50:00,800 –> 00:50:05,800
Up them just like Lydia did
Lydia, open our home to Paul,

822
00:50:06,200 –> 00:50:09,600
and to the Brethren.
And not only that after they

823
00:50:09,600 –> 00:50:12,700
left, Lydia’s house and went on
their way to thessalonica.

824
00:50:13,000 –> 00:50:15,700
They remembered them there and
sent gifts to them there.

825
00:50:15,700 –> 00:50:20,300
Because in Philippians chapter 4
and verse 16, we see that Paul

826
00:50:20,300 –> 00:50:24,600
says, even in thessalonica you
at Philippi up, Philippi you

827
00:50:24,600 –> 00:50:28,500
flip Ian’s probably would have
included at Lydia.

828
00:50:28,900 –> 00:50:32,700
You sent not just one time.
But once again, under my other

829
00:50:32,700 –> 00:50:37,100
sesa T, verse 10 of chapter 4,
I’m going to read it to you from

830
00:50:37,100 –> 00:50:40,300
another translation.
It has been a great joy to me

831
00:50:40,300 –> 00:50:42,500
that.
After all this time, you are

832
00:50:42,500 –> 00:50:45,600
soul shown such interest in my
welfare.

833
00:50:46,100 –> 00:50:49,200
I don’t mean that you have
forgotten me, but up till now

834
00:50:49,200 –> 00:50:52,900
you had no opportunity of
expressing your concern.

835
00:50:53,900 –> 00:50:57,100
Are you and I doing what we can
do to help one.

836
00:50:57,100 –> 00:51:01,800
Another is our love for one.
Another showing you know be

837
00:51:01,800 –> 00:51:04,500
doers of the word, not hearers
only don’t talk about love.

838
00:51:04,700 –> 00:51:09,600
John says don’t talk about it.
Do it first John 3. 18, my

839
00:51:09,600 –> 00:51:12,300
little children.
Let us not love in word.

840
00:51:12,400 –> 00:51:14,400
He doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
Just talk about it, but he said,

841
00:51:14,600 –> 00:51:17,800
Talk’s cheap, don’t it?
Neither in tongue but in deed

842
00:51:17,800 –> 00:51:24,000
and in truth, that’s what we do.
We show our love, Lydia had a

843
00:51:24,000 –> 00:51:29,000
wonderful experience, she was
taught the truth, she then gave

844
00:51:29,000 –> 00:51:32,500
of herself.
She gave her whole she gave her

845
00:51:32,500 –> 00:51:36,800
time.
She gave her money to help them

846
00:51:36,800 –> 00:51:39,900
when they were there and even
After their left.

847
00:51:41,100 –> 00:51:45,100
Now, Lydia learned the secret of
true happiness.

848
00:51:46,500 –> 00:51:49,800
From Paul.
Before this week is out, we’re

849
00:51:49,800 –> 00:51:52,400
going to learn it too, and we’re
going to be as happy as Lydia

850
00:51:52,400 –> 00:51:54,200
was.
We’re going to be the happiest

851
00:51:54,200 –> 00:51:57,400
people on Earth if we just
remember the secret.

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And apply it in our life.
We’re going to be the Most

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Blessed people on the face of
the Earth.

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We are right now, but I don’t
think we appreciate the

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wonderful gift that we have.
And so as our class comes to a

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close today, we want their young
truth, core is going to help us

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before you leave the room.
Be sure that you get your

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homework because we want you to
take this verse in Proverbs.

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The one that’s Sayer and we want
you by tomorrow.

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God willing to be able to recite
it in full because it’s not

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something to know it’s a way of
life.

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And if you live, those verses.
You will be happy now.

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And you will be happy forever in
the Kingdom.

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So, trust in the Lord, with all
thine heart, and lean not unto

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thine own understanding in all,
thy ways acknowledge Him.

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And he shall direct thy paths.