Bob Lloyd – Class 2: Seek First the Kingdom of God

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General theme for the weekend,
is the way of life and it’s

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afternoon.
Now, we are to consider study to

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their brother Bob and we look
forward to his words on the

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subject.
Seek first, the kingdom of God

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or the bomb Well, good afternoon
once again, my beloved brothers

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and sisters, young people in
friends, I know we’ve have some

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new ones, have come, he missed
the first class.

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I can tell you truth, you didn’t
miss a thing but we’re glad

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you’re here for this one.
Because this class I think, is

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important, not because I’m
giving it, but because the words

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are the inspired word of God.
And if we listen to it, we’re

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going to be in the Kingdom if we
don’t, we won’t.

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So it’s not complicated.
In our first class, we were

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reminded that there are many
wrong ways that we can go.

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But there’s only one right way.
And that one right way is by

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following Jesus, who he said, is
the way, the truth and the life

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and no other way will work, we
cannot take shortcuts or change.

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The requirements that God has
made for us, we have to follow

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in the way of life.
And we actually learned in our

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first class that we will be
tested.

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And that God tests us because he
loves us.

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And so it’s not that he wants to
punish us.

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He’s trying to prepare us for
bigger and better things and we

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learned that would we are being
tested.

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We need to respond by thanking
God for the hurdles in our life.

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It’s not normal, it’s not
natural, but it’s right.

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You need to get everybody does.
It’s probably not right now.

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One of my favorite verses and I
have a bunch of them.

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But one of them is a verse that
I’ve memorized and I committed

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to you to commit to memory
because it’s a verse you can use

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when you’re being tempted, Jesus
was tempted in the wilderness,

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as you know, and each time he
was tempted he responded to the

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Temptation by quoting a Bible
verse.

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He didn’t have Scrolls in his
possession at the time.

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He had them in his head and you
and I need to get Bible verses

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that will help us in our Go
ahead and please don’t tell me

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you’re too old to memorize a
Bible verse.

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I’ve had people said well I just
can’t memorize the Bible verse.

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I said, what’s your phone
number?

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You know, they know it.
What’s your address?

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They know it.
That’s how come, you know, your

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phone number and your address.
Well, that’s important.

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Well yes it is important.
But is there anything more

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important than knowing a Bible
verse that can keep you from

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sinning and so mine is you want
to look it up.

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You don’t need to but it’s First
Corinthians 10 verse 13 and I’ve

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changed the words a little bit
because the verse in the King

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James says, there is no
temptation taken you, but such

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as is common to man, but I’ve
just changed.

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It said, because I’m talking to
me so I think there’s no

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temptation taken me but such as
is common to, man, which means

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it when I’m having a try,
Temptation.

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I’m not the first one to go
through this.

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You’ve been through it.
Your grandparents have been

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through.
It is a since Adam and Eve

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there’s no such thing really.
As new temptation, is new ways

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to sin, but the Temptations are
old, it’s any against God’s Will

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and so there is no temptation
taken me, but such as is common

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to, man.
So other people have this but

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God is faithful who will not
allow me to be Tempted above

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that, which I am able but will
with the Temptation.

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Also, make the way of Escape,
that I may be able to Bear it.

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Now, the thing is, you cannot
think, but one thing at a time

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it is impossible to have two
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Going to the brain at the very
same time.

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So, if you are saying a Bible
verse, whatever the Temptation

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was is gone.
And so, you have pushed the bad

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thought out with a good thought.
Now you can’t resist temptation

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by saying, oh I’m not going to,
I’m not going to think about

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that.
You’re thinking about the thing.

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You said, you wouldn’t think
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I use the example because it
happens to all men.

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A pretty girl walks by whoo-wee.
Is she pretty?

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And then I say this first of
myself, there’s no temptation

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taken you, but such as coming
and what I’m saying this verse,

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she’s out on mine and here she
comes in there.

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Don’t you think you’re?
Maybe, I may have to say that

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versatile, lots of times to
overcome a temptation but if you

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don’t know it you can’t use it.
So learn it and use it.

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Realize that you’re not going
through any kind of a Temptation

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that thousands millions billions
of people have had before you.

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But you see what supplies to you
doesn’t apply to the world

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because God is not concerned
with the world Jesus.

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I don’t even pray for the.
Well, I only pray for those.

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You have given me out of the
world.

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That’s us.
Brothers and sisters.

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We are the ones that God is
looking after because Jesus has

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prayed to God for us that we
could be in the world but not.

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Part of it.
And so God will not give you a

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trial, a problem more than you
can handle.

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And if you’ve got it, you can
take it or you wouldn’t have it

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now.
I flew over here, in an airplane

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and what do people do when they
build a new airplane?

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They hired test pilots, what
does a test file to do?

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He gets in the airplane and he
flies it, he puts it through

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dies and squinted all this.
Does he want to destroy that

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plane?
Not on your life, he’s in it.

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He’s not trying to destroy it.
He’s trying to see how much it

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can take.
God is not going to destroy you

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unless you just give up on him.
So when you have a Temptation,

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you can handle it or you
wouldn’t have it and so that

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helps us to Bear the problems.
We Face knowing that a loving

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God has tailor-made, your
problems just for you.

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And again, in our first pass,
this little bit of review, some

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of you came in We looked at
Hebrews 12 and verse 6.

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Whom the Lord loves he chastens
and he scourges every son whom

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he receives.
If you endure chastening, God

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deals with you as with sons for
what son is there whom the

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father does not chase him.
If you are about chased test

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chastening of which all have
become partakers then you are

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illegitimate and you’re not
suddens.

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So, you should be thankful for
the problems you had.

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We talked about thank God for
the hurdles that you have.

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Now, in this class, we want to
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The fact that we are really
chosen.

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Handpick.
We are we are special drawn-out

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people by God because he wants
you in his kingdom.

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And what we have to do is want
it to be in his kingdom as much

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as he wants us to be in his
kingdom. and so, in the book of

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Jeremiah God says and just
listen to these words and

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realize that they’re spoken to
you because whatsoever things

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were written, aforetime were
written for our learning that we

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through patience and comfort of
the scriptures might have hope

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these are your words for you.
Listen God’s talking to you.

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I have plans for you.
Plans to Spas Prosper, you and

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not to harm.
You plans to give you hope plans

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to give you a future.
Then you will call upon me and

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come and pray to me, and I will
listen to you.

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You will seek me and find me
when you seek me with all your

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heart.
So when you pray to God, do you

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listen to what you say?
You know sometimes people pray

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to God and they have a can
prayer that they just can turn

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on like a record a little more
has just ever happened in your

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house.
You, you do pray for your food,

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All Good.
Things Come From God.

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We always say a prayer before we
eat and so it’s Rush Time

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Breakfast.
You got to get off to work and

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you sit down and you say a
little prayer and then you start

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to eat in 20, forgot to melt
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Go get the knockout.
We do.

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We say, well, we do it again.
You have been talking to God.

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And you weren’t listening.
You expect him to listen if

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you’re not listening.
See, your prayers should not be

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by road that you just say words
and you’re not thinking about

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what you’re saying.
And so God will listen to your

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prayers but he knows whether
you’re thinking about what

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you’re saying.
So choose your words, with care,

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when eyes are talking to
almighty God, the creator of

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Heaven and Earth.
Nations of the world like the

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dust on the doesn’t make it go
down and yet yet he knows all

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about you and he’s wanting to
you to pray to him and some

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people I just don’t have time.
Well God has time to listen. if

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you have time to pray, And so,
our prayers are such an

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important part of our life.
How real is your prayer life?

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Could it be any better than it
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Just listen to Paul as he prays.
And what was he?

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How is were what position was
his body when he prayers, were

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you have to guess?
He’s got to tell us.

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It’s a Visions chapter 3, these
are verses again.

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You know these well you read
this twice a year every time you

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do your B daily Bible readings
For this reason, says Paul in

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Ephesians 3, verse 14, I bow my
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So what was the position of Paul
when he was praying?

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He was on his knees.
Do you have to be on your knees

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to pray?
No, God will listen to your

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prayer in any position.
You are in the Lord.

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Jesus prostrated himself on the
ground, in the Garden of

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Gethsemane.
But Solomon, when he dedicated

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the temple got down on his
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Daniel, when he prayed three
times a day got down on his

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knees.
Paul got down on his knees.

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Make sure your mind is on its
knees, whether your body is or

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not.
My wife has a titanium knee and

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she doesn’t dare kneel on him.
So she sits at the side of the

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bed and bends over, but she gets
in a humble position though.

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She dare not put that knee on
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God understands that he doesn’t
care what position your body is

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in, but he cares about what your
mind is.

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And if you are praying and you
don’t even listen to your own

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prayer, how you’re going to
work, how do you expect him to

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listen to it?
So listen, listen to Paul’s

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prayer.
I bow my knees to the father of

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our Lord, Jesus Christ from whom
the whole family in Heaven and

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Earth is named and that he would
Grant you.

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Now, Paul doing, he’s praying
for others, you have a list, you

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have people, you pray for.
You should have a list of people

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that you pray for Paul.
Did he talks about some of the

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people that he prayed for?
We have a number of people over

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our way or very ill.
Some of them are near death, one

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sister will probably die before
I get home.

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I’ve been praying for her every
day.

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So when you know, someone is
ill, name them in your prayers

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to God, when, you know,
somebody’s going through a trial

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problem, name them in your
prayers to God.

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And if somebody hurts you Name
them in your prayers to God.

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I travel around a bit and when
you do this, you meet lots of

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different people and nobody
appeals to everybody and if you

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come up to me this weekend, say
you’re a dirty rotten egg.

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I am going to add you to my
prayer list because that’s

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exactly what Jesus said to do.
You pray for your enemies?

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You pray for those who persecute
you, you pray for those who

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mistreat you and revile you and
say unkind things about you and

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I know some christadelphians Who
have someone they really don’t.

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Like, they won’t use the word.
Hey, but, and I’ve asked him, if

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your are you praying for that,
but I could never pray for him.

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Pray for her as if it would be a
sin to pray for somebody.

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You really don’t like and that’s
a very person.

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You ought to be praying for
Jesus said.

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So he not only said so he proved
it.

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On the cross in excruciating
pain as his life was ebbing

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away.
Father, forgive them for they

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know, not what they do.
And they were killing him and he

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prayed for him, you do not have
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I know that goes you’re here.
So if you have an enemy put them

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on your list.
And pray for them, Stephen as he

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was being stoned.
Lord lay not this sin to their

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charge.
And so Paul prayed for his

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enemies and Paul prayed for his
friends and he prayed for those

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that were in need and the
effectual fervent prayer of a

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righteous man or woman avails
much says James, but it has to

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be effectual in fervent.
You have to be thinking about

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what you’re saying, don’t say a
prayer and not be thinking.

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You’re talking about.
And so, he prays to God, and he

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prays for others, and he prays
that God will dwell in your

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hearts, through faith.
I don’t know if you’ve been

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praying for me, hearing I was
coming but I’ve been praying for

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you knowing, I was coming.
I know a lot of you and I

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thought of many of you in my
prayers and I pictured an

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audience, I didn’t know what
this building would look like,

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but I pictured you there and I
prayed that God would bring you

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here safely that he would bless
you while you’re here.

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But take you, home safely.
Bless you.

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As you now, prepare to meet your
savior or when he comes.

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The god that Christ May dwell in
your hearts by faith, that you

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being rooted and grounded in
love, may be able to comprehend

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with all the saints, what is the
width and length, and breadth

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depth and height?
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This is a prayer.
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You can copy this prayer, it’s
not copy written.

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If you can’t think of good words
to say, use words that someone

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else has said I’ve had people
saying.

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Well, sometimes I don’t don’t
feel like Well, that’s when you

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should pray the most, when you
don’t feel like it, you don’t do

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what you feel like you and you
do what you want to do when you

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feel like it or not. and so, if
you don’t feel like praying,

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open your hymn book.
Some of the hemp.

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We come.
Oh God, to Bow before thy Throne

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to PR solve valve through thy,
dear, son here, gracious.

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Father, here are humble, prayer.
You’re singing a prayer.

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We just read the words.
And if you can sing, sing it to

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open the Psalms and this is a
good one to read here in

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Ephesians.
But do what you ought to do

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whether you feel like it or not.
And if you will do what you

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ought to do with, you don’t feel
like it, you were In the feel

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like it and if you don’t do it
because you don’t feel like it,

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you never will do it.
So we just have to make

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ourselves do what we know we
ought to do and God has provided

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prayer for you and it’s a great
blessing and please do not pass

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up the privilege that he’s made
in willingly offering to listen.

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And to answer your prayers, that
Christ May dwell in your hearts

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through faith.
This is what Paul wanted to

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happen to those that lived in
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I want this to happen to those
who live here in Australia that

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Christ will dwell in your hearts
through faith that you being

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rooted and grounded in love may
be more comprehend with all the

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saints, what is the width and
length and depth and height and

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to know the love of Christ that
passeth knowledge that you may

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be filled with all the fullness
of God you ought to just be full

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of the fullness of God.
Now, to him, who is able to do

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exceedingly, abundantly above
all that we ask or think

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according to the power that
works as a in us to him, be

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glory in the Ecclesia by Christ
Jesus, to all generations,

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forever and forever.
Amen.

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Did you hear what he said?
He said that God will do

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exceedingly abundantly more than
you even ask for a think.

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One version says God is able to
do more than you would ever dare

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to ask or even dream of
infinitely beyond our highest

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prayers, thoughts, desires, and
hopes.

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Oh, residences of how blessed we
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That we have a god, And you can
call him anytime.

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You all have cell phones now and
they called people on peep see

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people walking down the street
going and they’re called out on

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the phone all the time.
Sometimes, you can’t get

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through.
Sometimes the signal doesn’t

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work, sometimes they’re busy.
Sometimes you’re not home when

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you talk to a machine, you never
going to get an answering

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machine when you called God. you
have a direct line to the

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heavenly father, and he listens
and cares if you’re only pray

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Isaiah tells us your ears shall
hear a word behind you saying,

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this is the way walk in it.
Whatever you turn to the right

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hand or to the left.
Now, today, we have so many new

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wonderful things.
We have a thing called Global,

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what you call it, global
positioning devices, and some

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cars have a little screen in
your dashboard and you put in

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where you want to go, and it
tells you how to go.

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I just got a new telephone or
cell phone and it’s got it in

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that I’ve got a phone.
Is smarter than me?

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I do not know how to do.
Everything that did.

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But I did talk to me how to get
home the other day.

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I already knew how, but I just
want to check it out, and it

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told me which lane to get in on
the freeway.

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It tells me how in nine tenths
of a mile, you’re going to take

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an off ramp to the right, you?
It’s wonderful that these global

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positioning devices, know where
you are and they know how to

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tell you to get from where you
are to where you want to go.

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But you know, who has the best
global positioning device of all

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times?
It’s your heavenly father, he

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knows where you are.
And you cannot go where he

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isn’t.
Now if you have one of those

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devices and you’re driving along
and it says turn, right?

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And you keep going straight, you
can do that.

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The device will not grab the
steering wheel of your car and

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push it to the right?
So you don’t have to listen to

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them.
Unfortunately, you don’t have to

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listen to God.
He wants you to, but he won’t

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make you, but just realize that
God knows way.

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You’re walking and he is willing
to direct your steps.

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If you will, just allow him to.
So, trust in the Lord, with all

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

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your ways, acknowledge Him, and
He will direct your paths.

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Now, if you want to turn to
Psalm 139 with me, David

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certainly didn’t know about
Positioning, but he certainly

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knew about God.
And he knew that God knew

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everything about.
In fact, it blew them away in a

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sense as he speaks to God in
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And so he says in Psalm 13 at
139 O, Lord, you have searched

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me and, you know, me and you
know, that’s true of each of us.

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God knows what you’re thinking
even before you thinking, so

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David goes all he says, you
know, my sitting down and I

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rising up.
It’s a fact right now, I’m

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standing and all of you are
sitting.

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Now, that’s not terribly
important.

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But God knows that he knows when
you stand up, and when I sat

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down, he says your comfort, you
comprehend, my path, and my

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lying down.
You’re going with all my ways.

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Verse 3, there’s not a word in
my tongue but behold O Lord, you

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know it all together.
This blew him away.

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Such knowledge is too wonderful.
For me is that I cannot attain

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it.
Where can I go from your spirit?

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Where can I flee from your
presence?

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You can’t get away from God.
Jonah tried to, it didn’t work.

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You may try to in it won’t work,
not that you’re going to be saw

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bad.
Well but you’re going to be off

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the beaten path to the kingdom
the way of life.

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If you turn when you should have
gone straight or you go straight

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with you should have turned He
says, in verse 11, if I say

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surely the darkness shall fall
on me, even the night shall be a

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light unto me.
Indeed, the darkness shall not

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hide from you, you know why most
burglaries are done in the night

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because it’s the darkness hides
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They don’t usually like to
working with bright light

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because people will see them
breaking growls, so they do most

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of their evil deeds in the
darkness people loved Darkness,

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more than light because their
deeds are evil, but you don’t

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hide from God.
And he To the darkness as to

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what you’re thinking and what
you’re saying, and what you’re

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doing for you for my inward
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You’ve covered me in my mother’s
womb before.

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David was born.
God knew about him.

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You certainly know the story
when Samuel went to anoint one

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of Jesse’s Sons to be the king
and all they come home.

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Oh, he’s good.
Look at how tall and handsome is

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not him.
God looks on the heart.

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Aren’t you?
Glad he looks on the heart?

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Because we sometimes look on the
outward appearance I do a bit of

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traveling and I was in a city.
I never been in before and a

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sister come up to me said, oh,
your brother Lloyd.

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I said, yes, she says, I’ve
listened to your tapes and I

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pictured what you would look
like, she’s, I thought you’d be

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tall and handsome, but she is,
you’re not Now, she was speaking

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the truth, and I didn’t have to
put her on my prayers because

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that didn’t offend me.
I mean, she was just telling me

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what she saw and I kind of a
game here.

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I see that same thing.
So, but the point is, you never

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know what people will say to
you.

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But you can’t get away from God
and he knows what you look like

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and what you’re thinking, what
you’re saying.

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And so he knew you in your
mother’s womb as he said to

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David.
And so he says, in verse 14, his

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I praise you for.
I am fearfully and wonderfully.

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Made marvelous are thy works and
that my soul knows very well.

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My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in secret and

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skillfully wrought in the lowest
parts of the earth.

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Your eyes saw, my son has before
it yet being yet.

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Arm before he was even being
formed in the womb and your

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book.
This is God’s.

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But did you know your names in
the book?

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But you know, on your computer
you have a little key called.

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Delete olden days, we used to
buy a thing called white out.

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I used to buy whiteout in spray
cans because but God is able to

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blot your name out of The Book
of Life.

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And that’s a frightening thought
to think.

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Don’t let it be a true of you
because God, I believe when you

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get baptized, he puts your name
in the book and then he watches

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you and cares for you and watch
it.

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See how you progress?
And if we go out of the way of

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life, if we go off the rails, if
we begin to do wrong things, God

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has a delete key in his book of
life.

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Also, How precious are your
thoughts to me?

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O God.
How great is the sum of them?

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Search me, o God, he is whether
you wanted to or not search me o

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God.
Verse really know my heart.

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Try me and know my anxieties and
see if there be any wicked way

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in me and Lead Me in the way
Everlasting.

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Now that’s a beautiful prayer
and again it’s one that you

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could very well read if you
don’t feel like praying Your own

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words, you can’t improve on the
inspired word of God, but God

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doesn’t require you to say glib
set phrases.

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He just wants you to pour your
heart out to him.

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And so another one of my
favorite verses is Philippians,

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chapter 4, verse 6 and 7, and I
like this in the Phillips

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translation.
And it says, in the King James

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says, don’t be said, be careful
for nothing.

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Well, be careful for nothing
makes me think.

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I don’t care about anything,
that’s not what it meant and

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it’s not a very good translation
but Phillips is don’t worry over

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anything whatever.
Tell God every detail of your

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needs an Earnest and thankful
prayer and the peace of God,

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which transcends in human
understanding, will keep

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Constant Guard over your hearts
and minds of the rest in Christ

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Jesus.
And so, when I’m really worried

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about something, I just say,
don’t worry over them.

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Like I say that, right?
When I’m being tempted, they

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were no temptation, taken you,
but such as is common to man,

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I’ve got verses that I could put
in play in a second of time to

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help me overcome a problem that
I’m facing and believe me, like

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all of us have problems and so
this Way I learned to cope with

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them.
David went out looked up in the

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sky and said, the heavens
declare, the glory of God, and

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the firmament showeth, his
handiwork Isaiah said, behold

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the nation’s there is a drop in
the bucket and are counted as a

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small dust with the skill and
yet it’s spite of the mystery of

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this universe.
God knows how many hairs you

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have on your head.
And I do not know the number but

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I know it’s getting less all the
time.

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It doesn’t matter.
Now, Jesus said that and again

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we talked about, did Jesus say
silly things and the answer was

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no eat.
When he said leap for Joy, he

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meant that when he says God
knows how many hairs on your

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head.
It wasn’t silly.

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He’s trying to say look God
knows more about you than you

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00:28:40,400 –> 00:28:43,600
know about yourself is not a
person in this room unless

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they’re totally bald it has That
you know how many hairs you have

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00:28:47,800 –> 00:28:49,400
on your head.
You may be just a few fuzz

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00:28:49,400 –> 00:28:52,900
around the back, but you still
know the number and God knows

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00:28:52,900 –> 00:28:56,800
it.
Now God is to his, son is trying

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to impress you with the fact
that he knows all about you,

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much better than any global
positioning thing.

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And so when you pray, Think of
the person you’re talking to

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almighty God and you’re praying
through the Lord.

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Jesus, who is our meteorite, his
right hand.

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00:29:16,400 –> 00:29:19,000
Now, if these kind of thoughts
don’t impress you and make you

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feel very small insignificant
well on, then I’m not reaching

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you because God is so great, and
we’re so small and yet he cares

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about us, And he wants you to
stay in the way of life, and he

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sent his son to show you that
way.

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And now we have to make that
goal of the Kingdom.

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So real, in our own mind that
were drawn to it.

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So what is your goal in life?
Your ultimate goal in that.

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What’s the most important thing
in the world to you?

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00:29:55,400 –> 00:29:58,900
And I will tell you sir, from
the about yourself, it needs to

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be that you want to be in the
kingdom of God.

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More than anything else and all
the world.

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Now most people in the world who
are not successful in this, most

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people in the world certainly
spiritually.

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They’re not they don’t have
goals if you want to go to a

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00:30:14,300 –> 00:30:18,500
seminar of motivational speakers
who try to help you to be

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00:30:18,500 –> 00:30:21,500
successful in life and sports
and whatever.

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They tell you, you have to set
goals, you have to visualize

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your goal.
You have to think about your

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goal, you have to repeat it and
you’re drawn to it and helps

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00:30:30,900 –> 00:30:33,500
you.
And so the people who do not

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have Those won’t get there
because they don’t know where

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00:30:36,200 –> 00:30:40,500
they going.
Anyway, David Thoreau said that

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00:30:40,600 –> 00:30:43,300
most people’s lives are quiet
desperation.

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But today, many people could be
described, as living aimless,

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00:30:47,100 –> 00:30:51,000
distraction, they simply just go
with the flow, whoever the wind

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00:30:51,000 –> 00:30:53,900
blows, that’s where they go.
Remember the story of Alice in

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Wonderland, not that we wanted,
but you can actually learn the

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00:30:57,300 –> 00:30:59,800
lesson even from a little fairy
tale.

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Alice is lost.
She doesn’t know where to go.

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She sees a cat.
She asked this cat.

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00:31:09,100 –> 00:31:11,100
Could you tell me where I should
go?

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00:31:12,200 –> 00:31:14,700
The catch the Delaware.
Where do you want to go?

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00:31:15,900 –> 00:31:21,300
Now, see I really don’t know.
The cat was smarter than Alice.

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00:31:22,700 –> 00:31:28,800
cat says, anyway, will do But
you see, we’re talking about the

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way of life and we’re not
saying.

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Anyway, we’ll do there is the
one right way and if it’s not

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00:31:36,000 –> 00:31:41,200
your goal to be in that way,
then you do have a problem.

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So I like this little story
because it teaches the lesson

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lessons, To be learned from
simple little stories which may

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or may not be true.
Some of the Parables were not

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00:31:53,000 –> 00:31:56,700
true, but the lesson they taught
was very profound.

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And so, this is the man driving
through the countryside here in

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beautiful, New South Wales, and
he gets lost He pulls up to a

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four-way corner and there’s a
little boy, sitting on the

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00:32:10,900 –> 00:32:14,100
fence, just sitting there.
It’s so he goes down, he’s

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wounded.
He’s as good a mate.

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That’s Australian, talk.
How do I know he says?

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Can you tell me which road to
take to Newcastle?

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Versus nope.
Is it?

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00:32:35,600 –> 00:32:39,900
Well, if I want to get to
Toronto, can you tell me which

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00:32:39,900 –> 00:32:41,000
one will go?
That way.

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Can you help me?
He says, Nope.

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00:32:45,400 –> 00:32:48,100
He says, well any of these roads
take me to Morissette.

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Do you know?
He says, nope.

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00:32:51,700 –> 00:32:53,100
Still got a little bit discuss
it.

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00:32:53,100 –> 00:32:56,000
He says well you don’t know much
do you?

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00:32:57,000 –> 00:32:59,000
My boy said?
Well, I know, I ain’t lost.

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00:33:03,100 –> 00:33:06,500
But you see he was lost and
didn’t know it.

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Because if you don’t know how to
get anywhere from where you are,

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you are lost.
And so one of the things we do

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in preaching is to help people
realize they are lost, they

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00:33:20,300 –> 00:33:24,800
don’t know it.
And so we can help them realize

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00:33:24,800 –> 00:33:28,700
they have a problem and then
we’ve got the solution because

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it’s God’s solution is a hope
for the righteous.

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And so aren’t you thankful?
You know where you’re going.

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00:33:38,100 –> 00:33:44,100
We are Kingdom bound.
We’re on the way in the way they

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00:33:44,100 –> 00:33:46,100
were going in the right
direction.

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Now there are some really wise
people who set goals and Achieve

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00:33:50,700 –> 00:33:53,700
them and become very successful
in whatever they’re feeling.

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00:33:53,900 –> 00:33:57,900
But when they get the goal that
they sucked for, it’s not worth

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00:33:57,900 –> 00:34:01,100
it, they get a gold medal in the
movies.

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They make a lot of money.
But it’s not worth it all the

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00:34:07,100 –> 00:34:11,600
goals of the world, even if you
get them are not worth it.

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I went to a success seminar.
When I was a young man, my

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00:34:16,100 –> 00:34:20,699
company paid for us to go and he
told us about setting goals and

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then he told us how to achieve
these goals and he didn’t use

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the Bible at all.
But he confessed to me later.

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I mean, he didn’t quote, the
Bible because I was talking to

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him privately.
He says, you know, everything

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I’m teaching is in The Sermon on
the Mount but if I told people

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that they wouldn’t pay me,
thousands of dollars to come and

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00:34:45,000 –> 00:34:49,300
hear me.
So you see these principles

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which are in The Sermon on the
Mount is he said, and in your

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00:34:53,000 –> 00:34:56,900
Bible will lead you to success
in whatever Endeavor you want.

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It was Jesus said that rule this
world their generation wiser

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00:34:59,700 –> 00:35:02,000
than the children of light
because there are people out in

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00:35:02,008 –> 00:35:05,300
the world who take Godly
principles and use them to get

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00:35:05,300 –> 00:35:09,900
worldly goals in a way.
It’s kind of sad that they don’t

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take those Godly principles and
use them to get into the

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kingdom.
That’s why you’re different.

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You’re going to take your going
to be a goal.

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Setting person setting goals to
help you get into the kingdom.

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Remember what?
Paul said in First Corinthians 9

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verse 24, do you not know that
in a race?

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All the runners run?
But only one gets the prize run

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

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

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00:35:40,900 –> 00:35:44,100
crown that will not last but we
do it to get a crown that will

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last forever.
Therefore, I do not run like a

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man running aimlessly, I do not
fight like a man beating the

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air.
You are Kingdom Balan, you’re in

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the way of life.
The goal is to be in the Kingdom

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now.
James Dobson is a famous man

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over Iowa.
I don’t know if he’s known over

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00:36:00,900 –> 00:36:04,600
here or not, he is a he has a
radio program called focus on

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00:36:04,600 –> 00:36:08,500
the families over here.
And he tells the story about

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00:36:08,500 –> 00:36:13,400
himself when he was in college,
he was pretty good at tennis and

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his goal is to become the School
tennis champion.

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And he achieved it and he got a
great big trophy and the school

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00:36:22,300 –> 00:36:25,600
took this Trophy and put this
trophy with his name on it in

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the trophy case in the Hall of
the school.

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He was so proud of his
accomplishment.

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Years.
And years later a package

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arrived.
And it was his trophy and the

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janitor had found it in a trash
can, they had torn down the

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school and we were building a
new one and they threw that

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trophy away.
And James Dobson said, given

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enough time all your trophies
will be trashed by someone.

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But not if it’s the kingdom and
that’s the point that Paul is

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making, you make your goal the
kingdom and you will be

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successful.
When one of our hymns is the him

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329.
We sing how long your strengths

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and substance waste on Trifles.
Light as air.

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I mean, people go through their
life, you don’t become a

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champion in any sport without
giving it 110%.

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And yet, when you got it, what
have you got?

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It’s not worth it.
So we are in the way of life and

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our goal is to be in the kingdom
and we have to be Drawn to that

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because we visualize it, we have
pictures of the kingdom in the

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Bible.
I have not seen nor ear heard

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neither the, in the heart of
man, the things that God has

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prepared those 11 but the next
verse begins with, but don’t

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stop there.
Read the Bible.

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God has revealed it to us.
God wants us in his kingdom and

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he’s given us a pic, you know?
Remember when Paul was taken up

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to the third heaven, he says
whether in the body or other but

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I don’t know, you know, some
people really know and Paul

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said, he didn’t know how they
don’t want to proponent know.

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But he saw things that were so
wonderful that he he couldn’t

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00:38:22,600 –> 00:38:27,200
express it.
Now you have an imagination God,

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00:38:27,200 –> 00:38:32,100
gave you an imagination and you
can use it for good and you can

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use it for ill and it’s your
choice.

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So question is, are you using
your imagination to draw you to

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the kingdom?
Do you want to be in the Kingdom

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more than anything else in all
the world?

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Is that how your?
Do you want to be in the kingdom

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of God?
More than anything else in the

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whole world?
The good news is, if you do, you

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00:39:10,600 –> 00:39:17,100
will be there. and if you don’t,
You won’t.

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00:39:18,200 –> 00:39:24,000
It’s not complicated.
You just have to visualize the I

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say these words to myself.
Every day.

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Not once.
Not twice, not a dozen times.

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I don’t count on my.
I just say him over and over.

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I’m driving the car.
You know, I want to be in the

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kingdom of God.
More than anything else at all

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00:39:44,900 –> 00:39:47,800
over.
This is embedded in.

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00:39:47,900 –> 00:39:52,300
It’s like if I don’t believe in
tattoo him but I do believe that

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you ought to have this emblazon
in your brain and you’re just

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drawn to the king because you
want to be there more than and

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then when you’re someone would
tell you that’s cool, seeing

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always be fun.
Look at it to see him, you know,

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sin is fun.
God’s quite honest in.

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00:40:09,000 –> 00:40:12,000
Is fun.
It wasn’t fun, you wouldn’t want

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to do it.
Moses chose to suffer Affliction

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00:40:15,100 –> 00:40:19,900
with the people of God, rather
than to enjoy the pleasures of

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00:40:19,900 –> 00:40:24,600
sin for a season.
So someone’s trying to get you

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to do something.
Oh, it’s gonna be fun,

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00:40:26,400 –> 00:40:29,800
everybody’s going to do and you
know, and you look at this at

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the fun thing and then you think
about the kingdom You look at

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00:40:34,800 –> 00:40:37,200
the fun thing and you look about
the kingdom.

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Oh forget it.
It’s so easy.

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To resist temptation.
When you have a vision of the

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Kingdom in your mind that you
want to be in the kingdom of

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God, more than anything else in
all the world.

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Let’s hope that is your goal, if
it isn’t your goal, it’s not too

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00:40:59,900 –> 00:41:05,200
late to make it your goal.
But if it isn’t your goal when

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Christ comes, we already know
the words, he will say to you.

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Depart from me, you workers of
iniquity.

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I never knew, you know, but I
went to a meeting every Sunday.

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I worked on this committee.
I don’t even know who you are

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because you see you can go
through the motions of doing

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00:41:25,700 –> 00:41:32,200
very good things. but if you’re
not motivated because you want

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00:41:32,200 –> 00:41:34,200
to be in the kingdom of God,
more than anything else in all

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the world.
You won’t be there.

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And so we’ve come to Luke
chapter 13.

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And if you would like to look
this up, I’m starting at verse

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23 because they asked Jesus a
question.

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Lord are only a few people going
to be saved.

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And let’s listen to his answer.
Luke 13:24 make every effort to

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enter through the narrow door.
Talking about the way of life

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because many, I tell you will
try to enter and will not be

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able.
First. 25.

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When the householder has risen
up.

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And shut the door.
There is a door.

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00:42:42,200 –> 00:42:46,600
That would be shocked.
And you’re going to be on one

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side of it.
Or the other.

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00:42:51,700 –> 00:42:55,000
And you’re deciding.
Right now.

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Which side of the door you’re
going to be on.

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00:43:01,400 –> 00:43:05,400
It’ll be a fair judgement.
You cannot appeal it.

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00:43:07,100 –> 00:43:11,700
He will be final.
And you’re getting ready now to

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face your lord.
And that’s why these classes on

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00:43:17,200 –> 00:43:22,400
the way of life are so important
for you because we could be on

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00:43:22,400 –> 00:43:26,000
the wrong side of the door now
and there’s still time to

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00:43:26,000 –> 00:43:30,400
change, but if you don’t do
different, if you’re on the

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00:43:30,400 –> 00:43:36,500
wrong side of the door.
You’re going to be kept out and

658
00:43:36,500 –> 00:43:38,600
what’s the matter has risen and
shut the door.

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00:43:38,600 –> 00:43:41,700
They will begin to stand outside
until knock on door and say Lord

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Lord open to us, he would ask
you, I do not know where you

661
00:43:46,400 –> 00:43:50,800
came from.
Then you will begin to say we

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00:43:50,800 –> 00:43:53,900
ate and drank in your presence
and we taught in your streets.

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00:43:55,500 –> 00:43:57,600
He will say I tell you now I
don’t know who you are.

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There will be there, you will
see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in

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00:44:03,200 –> 00:44:06,400
the kingdom of God, and you
yourselves thrust down.

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00:44:07,700 –> 00:44:09,600
And then will come from the East
and from the west and from the

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00:44:09,600 –> 00:44:11,800
north and from the south and sit
at the table of the kingdom of

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00:44:11,800 –> 00:44:16,600
God behold some that are last
will be first and some that are

669
00:44:16,600 –> 00:44:20,600
first will be last.
Now, Jesus is making a

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00:44:20,600 –> 00:44:25,300
distinction between two words
put until we get the point, he’s

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making he’s saying strive to
enter in. because I tell you

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00:44:32,200 –> 00:44:39,000
some will seek To enter and will
not be able now, I’m not a Greek

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00:44:39,000 –> 00:44:41,700
scholar.
We’re thankful for the fact that

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we have Greek lexicons and that
word strive is strong, number 75

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00:44:49,800 –> 00:44:53,000
and the Greek word is agonizing
saemaeul.

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00:44:53,100 –> 00:44:56,100
I don’t know how to say greed.
But so what it’s got agonizing

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00:44:56,100 –> 00:45:03,400
and ins a male agonize the Mayo.
And it means to labor fervently

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00:45:03,600 –> 00:45:06,800
to agonize to give it everything
you’ve got.

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00:45:07,400 –> 00:45:08,700
That’s what you got to do with
and sisters.

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00:45:08,700 –> 00:45:11,500
You want to be in the Kingdom.
I’d like to be in the Kingdom.

681
00:45:12,500 –> 00:45:16,200
Well, maybe you’re just speaking
for the kingdom and that word is

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00:45:16,200 –> 00:45:19,300
a Greek word.
Zito Zito ete.

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00:45:19,300 –> 00:45:25,400
Oh it’s 212 11:40 in the creek
lexical and it means in

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00:45:25,400 –> 00:45:28,800
Strong’s.
It means to That’s desire to

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00:45:28,800 –> 00:45:33,200
want back in the olden days of
horse and Buggies.

686
00:45:33,200 –> 00:45:39,500
There was a saying, if wishes
were horses Beggars would ride.

687
00:45:40,800 –> 00:45:44,800
Allah people can wish for a
horse but they’re not willing to

688
00:45:44,800 –> 00:45:47,900
go out and earn the money and
buy one so they can ride it.

689
00:45:48,400 –> 00:45:51,500
So if you just wish to be in the
Kingdom so it’d be nice.

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00:45:51,600 –> 00:45:54,200
If I said, if I were to, I’m not
going to do this.

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00:45:55,000 –> 00:45:59,000
But if I was to ask you, to
raise your hand, if you want to

692
00:45:59,000 –> 00:46:03,300
be in the Kingdom, I probably
every hand in the room would go

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00:46:03,300 –> 00:46:07,700
up, but then if I said now put
your hand down and I’m going to

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00:46:07,707 –> 00:46:12,700
ask you once more.
Are you willing to strive to be

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00:46:12,700 –> 00:46:14,500
in the king?
Are you willing to give it your

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00:46:14,500 –> 00:46:16,200
all?
Are you willing to want to be in

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00:46:16,200 –> 00:46:17,700
the kingdom of God?
More than anything else at all?

698
00:46:17,700 –> 00:46:20,800
Or if you want something else
more than you want the kingdom,

699
00:46:20,800 –> 00:46:24,500
I hope you get it.
Because it’ll keep you out of

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00:46:24,500 –> 00:46:29,300
the Kingdom.
There are lots of gods and lots

701
00:46:29,300 –> 00:46:34,300
of wrong ways to go.
There’s one right way, if you

702
00:46:34,300 –> 00:46:38,700
don’t want to be in the Kingdom,
more than anything else in this

703
00:46:38,700 –> 00:46:44,500
world, then whatever it is.
You wanting more Whatever that

704
00:46:44,500 –> 00:46:46,700
is.
It’s your God.

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00:46:48,400 –> 00:46:53,200
It can be a person.
It can be a career, you can be a

706
00:46:53,200 –> 00:46:58,100
job that can be a sport.
There’s a lot of nice sports but

707
00:46:58,100 –> 00:47:02,400
very bad Gods.
The people who become champions

708
00:47:02,400 –> 00:47:08,300
in sport really do, make it
there God And we can’t be like

709
00:47:08,300 –> 00:47:10,700
that, and that’s the lesson
we’re trying to drive home.

710
00:47:11,400 –> 00:47:14,200
We want you brothers and sisters
and young people who haven’t yet

711
00:47:14,200 –> 00:47:16,200
made a decision.
We want you to realize that the

712
00:47:16,200 –> 00:47:18,800
kingdom of God is the most
wonderful thing that’s ever been

713
00:47:18,800 –> 00:47:22,000
offered to a human being and God
wants to give it to you.

714
00:47:22,000 –> 00:47:24,000
You can’t buy it.
You can’t earn it.

715
00:47:24,100 –> 00:47:29,600
It’s a gift.
I got to give it to you unless

716
00:47:29,600 –> 00:47:32,900
you want it more than anything
else in all the world.

717
00:47:34,200 –> 00:47:38,100
So that’s my question to you, as
we come to our second end of our

718
00:47:38,100 –> 00:47:46,500
second class.
We want you to hunt to be in the

719
00:47:46,500 –> 00:47:51,600
kingdom of God, more than
anything else in all the world.

720
00:47:52,800 –> 00:47:56,700
And so, your handout is a little
funny piece of wood.

721
00:47:56,700 –> 00:47:58,500
I didn’t know I was going to
have trouble getting these into

722
00:47:58,500 –> 00:48:02,800
the country.
But it’s a question on the entry

723
00:48:02,800 –> 00:48:04,600
form.
When you come in as a stranger

724
00:48:04,900 –> 00:48:07,300
saying, they are, you bringing
anything made out of wood?

725
00:48:08,400 –> 00:48:12,500
Well, these are made out of wood
it’s round and it says to it on

726
00:48:12,500 –> 00:48:16,000
it.
And it’s around to it.

727
00:48:16,800 –> 00:48:19,000
No rocket science.
It’s round and says, do it.

728
00:48:19,000 –> 00:48:21,100
Do it around to it.
All of us.

729
00:48:21,100 –> 00:48:23,100
Say, we’ll do something when we
get around to it.

730
00:48:23,600 –> 00:48:27,700
Well, you’re going to get one
right now and on the back, it

731
00:48:27,700 –> 00:48:32,600
says seek first, the kingdom of
God.

732
00:48:34,000 –> 00:48:38,900
I want you to take it home.
When you put it in your purse,

733
00:48:39,300 –> 00:48:41,900
when you open your coin, part
where we got there it is to

734
00:48:41,900 –> 00:48:45,100
remind you fellow you reach in
your pocket, you can feel.

735
00:48:45,800 –> 00:48:48,100
I have them in my pocket, I know
what it is and I think really

736
00:48:48,100 –> 00:48:52,300
that I just know what it is.
You’re going to have one.

737
00:48:54,300 –> 00:49:00,000
But that won’t save you. but
following it will, Because

738
00:49:01,100 –> 00:49:03,900
brother and sisters, friends,
young people.

739
00:49:05,000 –> 00:49:09,800
We need to set a goal.
That we want.

740
00:49:10,800 –> 00:49:15,500
To be in the kingdom of God.
More than anything else in all

741
00:49:15,500 –> 00:49:16,300
the world.