Bob Lloyd – Class 3: I Can Do All Things Through Christ

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This is a Idlewild Bible School
1982 the third day and the third

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study and the general theme of
Philippians.

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And the title of today’s talk is
I can do all things through

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Christ and this will be led by
brother Bob Lloyd.

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Thank you.
Good morning, brothers and

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sisters.
Are we prepared to recite?

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All right.
You ready?

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Those
wasn’t quite as organized as

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yesterday.
You know you need a little we

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had a lot of things like that.
You remember?

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I remembered left right?
And his which helped me because

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they had learned and received
that’s left and right and learn

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to see the scene.
This is Like see how good I’ve

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done it.
But you just little things that

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help you remember things because
you get a lot of words like that

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even which one’s comes first.
What does one little thing in

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beginning today?
Of course we have our brother

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Ralph King is our presider he’s
from Dunedin and he and his

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lovely family have to leave
tomorrow.

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God willing they have a plane
out tomorrow night for home so I

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know that you join me in Wishing
them.

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God, Speed on your homework
Journey.

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But also today happens to be his
birthday.

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So I know you again.
Join me in wishing him.

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The very best.
It’s his birthday is already

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over it.
He was home because today is

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tomorrow over there.
Paul called the Ecclesia and

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Philip.
I’d his joy and Crown.

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He loved this occasion and his
letter to them, reflects the

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love and the joy that they
shared.

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When Paul left Philip II, he
went to thessalonica, but Luke

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didn’t go with him.
He kept Luke and Philip II to

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nourish this new little
enclosure which had just begun,

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but soon as he gets to, to
thessalonica the flipping

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brother and sisters because they
loved him so much, they keep

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kept sending him gifts and you
see this in Philippians Chapter

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4 and verse 16 for when he
wasn’t there somewhere.

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I can he says you sent once no
not once once and again and to

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my necessity.
So he was always thankful that

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these flip Ian brothers and
sisters were so conscious of his

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needs.
In fact, they seem to help him

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almost more than any other
because when he was writing to

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the Corinthians and 11th chapter
of the his second letter to them

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in verse 9, he says when I was
present with you and I was I

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wanted I had needed things, I
didn’t ask you for him.

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I was chargeable to no man for
that which was lacking to me the

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Brethren which came from
Macedonia supplied.

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Of course, Philip I was a chief
city of Macedonia.

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So again, They seem to follow
him around with their gifts,

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taking care of Paul, the best
way they could.

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Because they loved him so much.
so now, we just been reading,

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leading up to the book of
Philippians.

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His first visit to Philippi his
second visit to Philip II

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occurred during his third
missionary journey when he was

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going out on the way out.
And that’s when he wrote to the

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Corinthians about what had
happened and how they

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Philippians had looked after
him, then, on his way, back from

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that Journey, he stops off
again.

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In Philippi, he hadn’t planned
to do this.

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These plans got changed as as no
doubt.

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Oftentimes our plans are
changed.

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He planned to go by sea from
Corinth to Syria, but a plot was

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discovered to try to do away
with Paul.

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And as a result of that, he
changed his plans and he came

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through Macedonia.
And through Philippine you find

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this in Acts chapter 20 and
verse 5.

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The previous verses have to do
with the with the fact that

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there was a, there was an uproar
and he departed to go to

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Macedonia and then he gets you
verse 5 that they tarried it

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troilus for us.
And in verse six, we sailed away

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from Philippi after the days of
unleavened bread.

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And so This time, he picks up
Luke Luke who he had left at

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Philip high, as he comes back on
his way through on his third

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missionary journey on his way
home.

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He picks up Luke and you can
tell that because you can always

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tell whether looks with the
group weathers they or we and it

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begins to be us and we in verse
5 and 6 of chapter 20 so you now

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you know that lux with the
party.

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But now we come to this letter
itself and Paul is in prison.

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In Rome, and he receives a very
welcome visitor.

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You, many of us who come to
Bible school, we haven’t seen

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some of the rest of us maybe for
several years, or maybe not this

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last year, and how pleased we
are and how much we greet

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Wonder.
Well, how are you and how are

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things back home?
Well, epaphroditus comes.

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To visit Paul bringing a gift
from the Philippian brothers and

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sisters.
He’s brought a generous gift

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evidently from them, and he’s
traveled a long way.

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To bring this gift to Paul.
I mean how would you like to

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travel the way he had to travel
as far as he had travel, we’ve

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come from all parts of the world
to this Bible school but that’s

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thanks to the fact that
knowledge has been increased and

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were able to run to and fro but
it wasn’t true in his day.

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They put one foot in front of
the other in order to get from

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place to place and the distance
between Philippine and Rome.

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Was equal to the distance from
Idlewild to Grants Pass Oregon.

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Now, some of you are from Grants
Pass, I wonder if you would have

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come to the Bible school.
If you had to walk here and then

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you have to walk back.
So that’s what epaphroditus had

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gone through.
He probably took him out a full

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month to make the trip.
Now, it seems that epaphroditus

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was not only to bring him this
gift, and bringing the greetings

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of his Brethren.
But he also wants to stay with

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Paul and be a minister kind of a
servant to do what he could to

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help Paul a while, he’s in
prison, but unfortunately

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epaphroditus gets sick.
He’s sick for home as well and

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he’s worried about his people
back home because he’s worried

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that they’re worried about him
and, you know, that’s how it is.

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When You worry because your
mother worries about you.

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So you worried about her cause
she’s worried about you.

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Well, I think Pat for Titus was
kind of like that about the

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folks at home.
So, Paul decides, the best thing

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to do is send him back.
And so in Philippians, chapter 2

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and verse 25.
Paul says, yeah, I suppose it

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necessary to send to you.
Epaphroditus my brother, and

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companion, in labor, and fellow
Soldier, but your messenger.

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And he that ministered to my
wants.

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So he was there to be a minister
to the needs and the wants Once

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of Paul, and Paul is kind of
worried that when epaphroditus

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gets back and he said, how come
you’re back?

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I prefer that I thought you were
supposed to be with Paul taking

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care of Paul.
Well, I got sick and I had to

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come home.
Well, you didn’t do a very good

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job.
You should have stayed on the

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job.
Paul was worried that the

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brothers and sisters and Philip,
I would be down on epaphroditus.

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So because Paul was always
thinking of somebody else, never

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thinking of his own self never
think of his own Comforts, but

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always of us.
People and this is what we need

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to learn, isn’t it?
That’s the way we Lo whether

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we’re ready for meat or not is
if we care about one another.

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And so he says to us in verse
29, he gives us Letter of

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approval.
He praises epaphroditus and he

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really begs them to approve of
him and to accept him receive

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him there.
He says, therefore in the Lord

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with all gladness and hold such
an reputation.

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Don’t look down on a path for
tightest.

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Hold him up because he’s been
very ill and he almost died, and

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I’m so thankful.
He didn’t die and I’m sending

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him home, I’ll take care of him.
He was supposed to be taking

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care of Paul, Paul’s worried
about him and verse 30.

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Because for the work of He was
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to supply your lack of service
toward me.

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So here’s Paul and prison
thinking of epaphroditus and

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trying to make things easier for
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This was really the peak of
Christian love.

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Christian caring for one another
we learned lessons from these

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Brethren.
Now the letter to the

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Philippians, really there were
for you.

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Perhaps could could think of
more, but we have come up with

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four main reasons for this
letter to have been written from

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Paul to the Philippians reason.
Number one was a, thank you

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letter.
When you get a gift from

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somebody, if you’re polite, you
write a little letter.

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Say, thank you for the gift.
Some people don’t do that, but

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it’s a Thing to do it.
If you don’t do it, we’re gonna

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lesson from Paul when you get a
gift right?

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And thank people, they like it.
You might get another one.

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If you do you might not have
your double but you just keep on

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giving gifts.
Even if people don’t say thank

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you because Jesus said to, but
it’s amazing how some people

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don’t seem to remember just a
simple courtesies, some of these

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things even the world has better
than we do.

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So let’s remember if someone
says sends you something, I

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write him a thank-you letter,
Paul did.

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Reason.
Number two, it’s a letter to

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Phil, the minds and hearts of
the Philippians with the spirit

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of joy and gladness.
So letter to pick them up and

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make them happy.
Number three, it’s a letter to

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give them spiritual guidance.
Reason.

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Number four, it’s a letter to
appeal to them.

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For Unity.
We’re going to look at each of

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these reasons as the week
progresses God willing, but not

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only does Paul.
Thank the Philippians for their

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gift.
He thanks God for the

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Philippians because he says,
every recollection that I have

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of you is a cause of
thankfulness to God.

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And that’s verse 3 of chapter, 1
in another version, But God was

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thinking I could Paul was
thanking God for the

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Philippians.
Do you think God for your

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brothers and sisters?
Do you think God everyday for

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your wife?
You think God everyday for your

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husband?
Do you think God everyday for

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your children?
I mean, you can’t believe what a

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difference it makes in your life
when you keep thanking God for

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the things, which you sometimes
might take for granted Now, one

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of the primary reasons for this
letter, we said was to encourage

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them to be happy and filled with
joy.

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Paul is trying to teach the
Philippians to be happy and his

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brother.
Paul Phillips said this morning

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you all going to be happy when
I’m finished, but I think if we

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learn the lesson that Paul
trying to teach us, we will be

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happier when we’re finished
because the letter to the

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Philippians will become so real.
So vibrant and our lives.

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If we listen to it course,
sometimes we just read words and

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go right on.
But if we let this message sink

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down and become a part of us, we
will never be the same again.

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He believe that you believe that
you can leave either while in

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1982 and never be the same as
you were before because of the

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letter to the Philippians and
look how many times you’ve read

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it.
But sometimes we need to draw

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these things out.
They were written for our

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learning.
That’s why we’re so thankful to

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have these opportunities.
These two come together because

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this isn’t just something for us
to spend an hour a day on, for 6

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days.
This is something to take into

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our lives and used for the rest
of our life.

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And if we do it the way Paul
wanted to do it.

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You’re going to be happy from
now on and if you don’t, you

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didn’t listen to Paul.
One can be happy even if things

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are not going really well for
them.

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We’re going very well for Paul,
he was happy and then we can be

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miserable.
When we have everything going

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for us, people can be in the lap
of luxury.

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Having all the things that say
people thicker make for

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happiness, health prosperity,
and they’re miserable.

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I mean, the rich people are
miserable.

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You look at rich people and they
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want to watch.
People just notice people when

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they’re, you don’t know that
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And there I just watched with a
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wrinkles, everything go.
And you know, after a while it

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gets like set in concrete, let’s
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that we look happy because if
you want to be happy at Cappy

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and if you act happy, you get
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miserable act, miserable feel
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miserable.
And you say sure.

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My Time is what I told you, I
would be Abraham Lincoln said

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that most people are about as
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to be.
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We decide every day whether it
be happy, or miserable and a lot

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of people, manufacturer
unhappiness, there’s a true

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story about a man and woman very
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evidently and they’re on a train
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the way to travel, and they were
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those days, white tablecloths,
and every beautiful silver and

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everything, just right.
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they don’t even was fairly
filled and they were just a man

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and his wife at this table.
And so another man came in and

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he’s standing there and he’s
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there’s no place to sit.
So this gentleman being a

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gentleman motion to let me just
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We’re just not, there’s only two
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Would you like to share the
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We’re glad to have you.
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He thanks them and they’re
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they each tell the other what
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woman she’s sitting there
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smiled.
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You know.
And finally, the husband says,

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my wife here, she’s in a
manufacturing business and the

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other fellow looked at her.
She didn’t look like a business

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person.
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Is that right?
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She manufactures unhappiness.
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no matter what you do for them,
they might affect your unhappy,

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they’re gonna find some way to
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I mean, here we are at Bibles,
but what a Marvel, the weather’s

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blessed us.
We’ve been blessed with a

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beautiful place to meet away
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We all get got here, safely.
We’re all enjoying a certain

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amount of good health.
We have everything to be happy

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about but you know what?
I know I know right now there’s

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people in this audience or
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And I don’t know who you are.
Not don’t think I’m pointing my

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finger at you, but I don’t know,
but I just know that odd because

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you can’t get a crowd of people
this big without having somebody

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measurable it just, and it’s so
sad because we don’t need to be

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that way.
And it’s, so if you’re

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miserable, you decided to
manufacture misery, and I think

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some people think that
miserableness is Next to

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Godliness And that’s not in the
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And so we why would anybody wake
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Hmm, another day I think I’ll be
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Well, you know, people do decide
to be miserable because if you

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don’t decide to be miserable you
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So anybody who is miserable you
have consciously made it this

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issue.
Today I’m going to be miserable

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and I’ve used you can see this
in your little kitties, you

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know, they get in a bad mood and
you know, and they just want to

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be mad.
And what do you mean?

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I don’t know about matter.
Something, you know, and some

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you cancer.
You but we get a little better

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facade.
I mean, we can always find

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something to be miserable about.
I mean you did you only it’s

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never you right?
It’s always the other person you

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forgot to darn my socks.
Are you sewed up the end instead

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of the toe or whatever?
But always you have some reason

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to be miserable.
So let’s decide to be happy.

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I mean, that’s what Paul’s
really got to teach us as we go

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through this letter, but Paul
was in prison, he’s chained to a

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Roman guard.
He’s awaiting the verdict to see

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what’s going to happen to him.
He has appealed to Caesar.

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He doesn’t know for sure what’s
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He believes he’s going to be
released, but there is the

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possibility that he will be
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And at a later time or that did
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He was, but he was and this time
released were thankful to know

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But he didn’t know for sure.
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He didn’t know he was going to
get out of that prison at

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midnight.
He didn’t know when he was going

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to be there, he was in prison
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Just waiting to be heard.
So he could have decided, Well,

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I can’t be happy now, soon, as I
get out of jail, I’ll be happy,

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but what did he tell us?
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Not that I speak in respect of
want for, I have learned in

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whatsoever.
State.

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I am therewith to be content.
I know both how to be abased,

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and I know how to abound
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And in all things, not some
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All things I’m instructed both
to be full and to be hungry both

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to abound and to suffer need.
How can you do this?

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Paul because I can do all things
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Which strengtheneth me?
And you can too.

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The same Christ.
He worshipped is the one that we

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worship.
And he’s as powerful today, as

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he was when Paul penned these
words, one commentator on the

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Philippians, summed up, the
letter, by saying, the sum of

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the epistle, is I Rejoice.
You must rejoice.

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And when we understand the
position that Paul was in and he

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was happy, we can say, well, if
you can be happy like that, I

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certainly can be happier in the
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I’m in 16 times. 16 times in
this short little letter, he

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talks about joy and Penis and
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Let’s Trace them.
Let’s begin at the beginning and

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follow them through.
We’re going to count it as we

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go.
Philippians chapter 1, verse 4,

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always in every prayer of mine
for you all making requests with

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joy.
There it is.

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Verse 18.
What then notwithstanding every

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way, whether in pretence or in
truth, Christ is preached and I

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therein do Rejoice, ye and Will
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Verse 25, and having this
confidence, I know that I shall

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abide and continue with you all
for your furthers and joy of

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Faith 2:2 fulfil, ye my joy that
you’d be like-minded.

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Having the same love being of
one, Accord of one, mine verse

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17, yay!
And if I be offered up upon the

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sacrifice and service of your
faith, Joy and rejoice with you

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all next verse for the same
cars.

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Also do ye joy and rejoice with
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Let’s see, that’s 229 down to
three and one, finally my

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brethren rejoice in the Lord to
write the same things to you to

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me, indeed is not Grievous but
for you it is safe.

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Chapter 4 verse 1.
Therefore my brethren dearly

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beloved and long for my joy and
Crown.

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So Stand Fast in the Lord my
dearly beloved For rejoice in

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the lord always not just on
weekends, not just on holidays

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rejoice in the Lord all the
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And again I say rejoice verse 10
but I rejoiced in the Lord

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greatly that now at the last
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Hath flourished again we’re in
you were also careful but you

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lacked opportunity now you count
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Paul is When you hear something
16 times and a little letter

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like this, you really know that
Paul is trying to tell you

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something, he’s trying to get
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You’d say, he was almost like a
broken record.

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He’s trying to pound the point
home that you and I are to be

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happy and he’s happy.
Even though you would think he

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wouldn’t be in the position he
was in. so, if you’re not happy

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now, When are you going to be
happy?

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Oh well, I’m going to be happy
when There are a lot of people

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in this world which are called
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You did you see a little kitty
and you say what are you gonna

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do when you grow up and you
know, we started off.

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What are you gonna do when so so
young people we went down that

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we can.
If we went down to the metal

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camp, we see all those young
people we think o boy, you know,

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they don’t know how good they
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Do they because we’ve been
through that and we asked them,

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are you happy?
Oh no.

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Be happy when when I get out of
school or I hate school when I

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got to school down, be happy
when I get a job.

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Well, when I get a good job when
I buy a car, when I get a car

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that runs When I get married.
When I buy a home.

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When I get out of debt.
When we have children.

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When the children are little
older, when the children are

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grown, oh, when I retire, when
we went, then I’m going to be

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happy and then we come up to the
upper camp and we talked to some

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of you that only these winds are
behind you and your now retired

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and then you say, oh, you’re
happy.

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All I remember the good old days
when And that’s so sad.

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I’m glad you’re laughing because
you didn’t laugh, you cry

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because this is the only moment
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We have to be happy right now.
This is the only one we’ve got

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and don’t wait to be happy when
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So we go back to chapter 4 verse
11, which we’ve already looked

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at and we see that you have to
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It isn’t something that you’re
born with, not that I speak in

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respect of want for I have
learned your underlying.

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The word lured.
I have learned in whatsoever

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State.
I am therewith to be content.

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It’s an acquired skill.
We have to learn to be happy and

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we have to learn to be happy and
whatever state we’re in right

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now.
Not later when something else

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happens.
A little saying not in the Bible

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but a very good one.
I choose my feelings.

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I choose to be happy.
You really do.

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Choose your feelings.
You may not consciously say that

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but however you feeling you
chose to feel that way.

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Will you feel the same way I was
if you had make troubles and you

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justify that you choose to be
measurable but your troubles

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don’t go away.
Just because you choose to be

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miserable, why don’t you choose
to be happy anyway?

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That’s what Paul saying, and
whatever state he was in.

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I have learned to be content in
whatever state that is.

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If I’m a base, I’m happy if I’m
a burning, I’m happy, if I’m

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form.
Happy.

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If I’m hungry, I’m happy if I’m
suffering the unhappy, I’ll be

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white guy.
Can you do that?

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Paul.
How do you do that?

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I can do all things.
Through Christ.

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Which strengthens me?
Trouble.

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Did not cause Paul to be
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He was happy.
Not because of it.

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In spite of it.
Now, summon we’re actually

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trying to cause Paul trouble.
While he was in prison and he

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could have really got upset
about this.

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Those people are just trying to
get me in more trouble.

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I got enough trouble as it is,
without those people going on.

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Preaching Christ to get me in
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But no, he made it, he, he took
the things that were sad and he

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made me made happiness out of
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Let’s look at chapter 1 and
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There were people preaching
Christ to cause him to get in

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more trouble.
And he says, what?

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Then notwithstanding every way
whether in pretence or in truth

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with our is happening, Christ is
preached.

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And if Christ is preached, I’m
happy about it.

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Yeah I therein do Rejoice.
Yeah and I will rejoice Because

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I got so upset at those people,
you know, there’s people

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preaching the truth and they’re
not sincere and they only doing

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it to get me in trouble.
Oh my this is terrible.

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I can’t be happy with them doing
that.

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I decide to be miserable today.
Not Paul chained to a soldier,

436
00:26:08,900 –> 00:26:11,100
all kinds of trouble.
He still was thinking of other

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people that the best way of
course to get for you, in

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trouble is to try to help other
people with.

439
00:26:16,300 –> 00:26:19,600
There’s forget about yourself
and get involved in other bit.

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You can always find somebody
worse than you, you’re

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complaining because you don’t
have any shoes.

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00:26:24,500 –> 00:26:27,400
Well, look at the Has no feet.
That’s an old story but it’s

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certainly true.
But you’re going to be called on

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where you look.
I got no shoes.

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Well at least you got feet.
Romans 8, we looked at it the

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00:26:37,108 –> 00:26:42,600
other day, but it’s so important
because it’s words, we know,

447
00:26:43,000 –> 00:26:46,000
it’s not words, we live, these
are words, we know, I’m not

448
00:26:46,000 –> 00:26:48,500
teaching you anything.
You haven’t read, you have read

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00:26:48,500 –> 00:26:53,600
Philippians, maybe 100 times.
You read it twice a year and

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00:26:53,600 –> 00:26:56,700
then you may have read it other
times besides that, but but

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these we have to take these
things and get them inside of

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00:27:00,500 –> 00:27:04,400
us.
It’s no good having your Bible

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00:27:04,400 –> 00:27:06,900
Bound in leather.
My Bible says is bound and real

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00:27:06,900 –> 00:27:10,100
Morocco by those no-good down
around, we don’t Morocco.

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It’s only about good.
If it’s bound in human flesh.

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You got to get it out of this
leather and in this weather and

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then you’ll be happy.
No matter what condition you’re

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00:27:19,300 –> 00:27:20,700
in.
You’re going to be happy.

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That’s the promise because all
things all the time work

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00:27:25,000 –> 00:27:29,200
together for good.
To those who love God to those,

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who are the called, according to
his purpose.

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00:27:32,200 –> 00:27:36,300
Now, if you feel sorry for
yourself, it’s the very worst

463
00:27:36,700 –> 00:27:41,600
form of egotism You know who
you’re thinking about when

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00:27:41,600 –> 00:27:44,100
you’re feeling, sorry for
yourself, he’s thinking about

465
00:27:44,100 –> 00:27:46,100
yourself a little poor, little
old me.

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And you’re supposed to forget
about yourself and thank God for

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00:27:51,100 –> 00:27:55,000
your troubles and to get into
watch wonderful things begin to

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happen.
Remembering the story yesterday

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of the, in the jail.
Paul was not thinking about his

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back, he was not thinking about
the stocks all holding his feet

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00:28:04,700 –> 00:28:10,900
secure, he was praising God, and
it’s a strange thing, but it’s,

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00:28:11,700 –> 00:28:17,800
it’s almost like a miracle.
But if you literally force

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yourself to thank God for the
very thing that’s happened, that

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you think is bad.
It releases it.

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00:28:29,400 –> 00:28:32,200
And a piece and a calm comes
over you that you never had

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00:28:32,200 –> 00:28:35,700
before, you can cope with it and
God blesses.

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You, I have a talk which is not
this one but it’s a talk that I

478
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gave in Australia and I remember
after one of these talks, I give

479
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it the night before and listen
to young girl came up to me and

480
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she, she came up as a whole
brother Bob Uncle Bob and she

481
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called me and she put her hand
on my, her head on my shoulder.

482
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She starts to cry and she’s
sobbing away.

483
00:28:54,500 –> 00:28:56,600
She says I just got sacked
today.

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00:28:56,600 –> 00:28:58,300
That’s their word for being
fired.

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00:28:58,700 –> 00:29:05,300
And she’s I’m thanking God.
It was a hard thing for her to

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do.
She heard the talk the night

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00:29:07,800 –> 00:29:09,400
before and got fired the next
day?

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00:29:10,100 –> 00:29:12,300
I saw her this year and I asked
her and she said everything’s

489
00:29:12,300 –> 00:29:15,100
worked out wonderful.
But that’s what if there’s

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something you see when you thank
God for your troubles as Paul is

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00:29:19,200 –> 00:29:23,300
going to teach us it releases it
you turn it over to God it

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00:29:23,300 –> 00:29:26,200
couldn’t have happened if he
didn’t allow it now I don’t I

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00:29:26,208 –> 00:29:28,600
don’t mean by that he caused it
we sometimes cause our own

494
00:29:28,600 –> 00:29:31,900
troubles but he certainly
allowed it or he could have

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00:29:31,900 –> 00:29:34,700
prevented it from happening and
if you’ve got it, level one

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00:29:34,700 –> 00:29:37,900
thing is, you can be thankful,
you’re alive because dead people

497
00:29:37,900 –> 00:29:42,100
don’t have any So the third fact
you’ve got troubles at least

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00:29:42,100 –> 00:29:50,100
proves you’re alive.
Now, now you thank God for those

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00:29:50,100 –> 00:29:54,100
troubles and then you ask God to
help you and he always will when

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you release it to him, he will
now.

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Paul is listening to Jesus.
You see Jesus is the one who

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taught.
Paul.

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How to do this.
So, if we go, Luke chapter 6, we

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00:30:03,700 –> 00:30:07,400
find Jesus, teaching us what
Paul learn, and Paul is now

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00:30:07,600 –> 00:30:11,200
telling the Philippians and us.
And Jesus is saying to us in

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00:30:11,200 –> 00:30:20,300
Luke chapter 6, and verse 22.
Blessed are ye when men shall

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00:30:20,300 –> 00:30:22,900
hate you.
Oh goodness, you don’t want

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00:30:22,900 –> 00:30:25,500
anybody to hate you, do you?
Well, he says yes, it’s okay

509
00:30:25,900 –> 00:30:27,300
what?
It’s depends on why they hate

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00:30:27,300 –> 00:30:30,100
you, of course and when they
shall separate you from their

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00:30:30,100 –> 00:30:35,800
company and shall reproach you
and cast, you out your cast out

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your name as evil for the son of
man’s sake.

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Now he’s talking about troubles,
he’s talking about bad things

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00:30:42,300 –> 00:30:44,200
that can happen.
He says blessed, are you when

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00:30:44,200 –> 00:30:47,400
these things happen?
Now he’s coming to the punch.

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00:30:48,300 –> 00:30:51,600
He says, rejoice in that day and
leap for joy.

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00:30:53,900 –> 00:31:00,400
Why did I do that?
But used was Jesus just saying

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00:31:00,400 –> 00:31:02,600
where he doesn’t.
He he he didn’t mean for me to

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00:31:02,600 –> 00:31:05,600
do that.
I mean he’s just talking there

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00:31:05,700 –> 00:31:07,400
that isn’t something you really
do.

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00:31:07,800 –> 00:31:10,500
You just just say the word but
sit down when you do it.

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00:31:11,300 –> 00:31:14,100
No, no.
I Think Jesus literally myth

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00:31:14,100 –> 00:31:22,200
every word he ever said, and
when he says leap for Joy, when

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00:31:22,200 –> 00:31:26,400
things are going bad, he meant
it.

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00:31:27,900 –> 00:31:32,000
And have you ever done it?
Have you ever jumped up and down

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00:31:32,000 –> 00:31:35,000
for Joy when they just came and
told you your car’s been stolen

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00:31:37,400 –> 00:31:40,300
or some other reverse which
seems terrible to you at the

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00:31:40,300 –> 00:31:44,200
moment.
I mean, how can you live for Joy

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00:31:44,200 –> 00:31:48,000
then Well, it couldn’t have
happened.

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If God allowed it, whatever it
is and everything is happening

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00:31:53,100 –> 00:31:56,200
to us.
All things, all things.

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00:31:56,200 –> 00:32:00,100
All the time are working
together for good, to those who

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00:32:00,100 –> 00:32:02,700
love God, to those, who are the
called, according to his

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00:32:02,700 –> 00:32:07,100
purpose.
So make your physical body do,

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00:32:07,100 –> 00:32:10,000
exuberant happy things.
When you’re, when you’re don’t

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00:32:10,000 –> 00:32:12,900
feel like it because which comes
first, the chicken or the egg,

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00:32:13,200 –> 00:32:15,600
I’ll be happy when I feel happy
but I don’t feel it.

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00:32:15,800 –> 00:32:17,500
It out so I ain’t gonna be
happy.

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00:32:17,900 –> 00:32:21,900
Well, make yourself be happy and
you begin to feel happy, you can

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00:32:21,900 –> 00:32:24,700
change your feelings.
I have woke up in the morning,

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00:32:24,700 –> 00:32:29,200
not feeling very well down, big
Gloom car over my head and I

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00:32:29,200 –> 00:32:32,200
have certain verses that I’ve
memorized and I just pass them

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00:32:32,200 –> 00:32:34,800
through and I pass them through
and I keep on it’s like it’s

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00:32:34,800 –> 00:32:38,400
like taking a dirty cloth and
keep raising it in cool water

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00:32:38,500 –> 00:32:40,400
and use the dirt.
The first time you do it on all

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00:32:40,400 –> 00:32:42,800
doesn’t come out.
I can say a Bible verse once or

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00:32:42,808 –> 00:32:47,100
twice and it doesn’t change me.
But I keep on doing it and I’ll

548
00:32:47,108 –> 00:32:49,600
just lay there in bed and I
wonder if I’m up old city, just

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00:32:49,600 –> 00:32:52,600
keep repeating it.
And all of a sudden, I’m

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00:32:52,600 –> 00:32:56,900
beginning to feel better now.
It’s a slow thing.

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00:32:57,200 –> 00:32:59,900
I mean, how many of you have a
watch on that?

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00:32:59,900 –> 00:33:02,000
Has an hour hand on it?
Would you please look at your

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00:33:02,000 –> 00:33:03,700
stare, at your, our head, for a
moment.

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00:33:04,400 –> 00:33:06,500
Would you tell me ways?
And when you see the hour hand

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00:33:06,500 –> 00:33:14,500
move, see you can’t see it move
but, you know our hands do move

556
00:33:14,700 –> 00:33:17,000
the digital people.
Participate in that.

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00:33:19,200 –> 00:33:23,900
But it moves and you can change
your feelings and it changes

558
00:33:23,900 –> 00:33:27,200
gradually, and you can’t just
sit do it once and oh wow,

559
00:33:27,200 –> 00:33:30,300
that’s great.
But if you’ll keep on, you will

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00:33:30,300 –> 00:33:34,100
find that you change and we’re
are changing brother medicine.

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00:33:34,100 –> 00:33:36,400
This morning talked on us about
being moons and we’re always

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00:33:36,400 –> 00:33:38,300
changing.
We’re either getting bigger or

563
00:33:38,300 –> 00:33:41,300
we’re getting older where the
waxing and waning all the time.

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00:33:41,600 –> 00:33:44,500
And if you’re waiting, there’s
nothing you can do to make

565
00:33:44,500 –> 00:33:47,100
yourself go the other way.
You can turn around the Moon

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00:33:47,100 –> 00:33:48,600
water starts to wane.
It’s got to go through the

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00:33:48,600 –> 00:33:50,900
holes.
And start back, but you don’t

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00:33:50,900 –> 00:33:53,100
have to go through the whole
cycle, you can turn around

569
00:33:53,100 –> 00:33:58,300
wherever you are right now and
go back towards God because I

570
00:33:58,300 –> 00:33:59,600
can do all things through
Christ.

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00:33:59,600 –> 00:34:03,200
Which strengtheneth me just that
little verse that one alone can

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00:34:03,200 –> 00:34:06,300
change you.
If you believe it, if you use

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00:34:06,300 –> 00:34:09,400
it, if you do it, just like
everything else, it won’t work

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00:34:09,400 –> 00:34:13,800
if you don’t.
Second Corinthians 12:9.

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00:34:15,600 –> 00:34:18,500
Paul says Paul’s got this
terrible Thorn In the Flesh.

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00:34:18,800 –> 00:34:21,100
He doesn’t want it.
He doesn’t like it could say

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00:34:21,100 –> 00:34:23,100
well wouldn’t really like when
it gets when it goes away I’ll

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00:34:23,100 –> 00:34:27,199
be happy.
When But God says, I want you to

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00:34:27,199 –> 00:34:29,400
have it.
My grace is sufficient for thee.

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00:34:29,400 –> 00:34:33,600
This is verse 9 chapter 12,
second Corinthians for my

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00:34:33,600 –> 00:34:35,699
strength is made perfect in
weakness.

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00:34:36,600 –> 00:34:39,500
Now, that’s what God Said,
deposited and that’s what God

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00:34:39,500 –> 00:34:40,300
says to.
You would be.

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00:34:40,699 –> 00:34:42,500
His strength is made.
Perfect in weakness.

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00:34:42,600 –> 00:34:44,900
Look at the people, he called.
Look it us.

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00:34:44,900 –> 00:34:47,800
Look how weak we are.
Look how frail we are look how.

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00:34:47,800 –> 00:34:50,500
And after we are compared to the
people of the world and God

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00:34:50,500 –> 00:34:55,100
picked us, Jesus preached to the
people.

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00:34:55,600 –> 00:34:59,200
All the time he was Immortal.
When he was a mortal not

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00:34:59,200 –> 00:35:03,500
Immortal soon as he was
Immortal, all those people never

591
00:35:03,500 –> 00:35:07,100
saw him again.
Only his little group.

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00:35:07,500 –> 00:35:11,800
Now when he was really strong,
he didn’t reach him when he was

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00:35:11,800 –> 00:35:14,900
weak.
He did know I had I been running

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00:35:14,900 –> 00:35:18,600
the the show so to speak because
I think so differently than God

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00:35:18,600 –> 00:35:21,500
does and it means I’m wrong and
he’s not, but it had been

596
00:35:21,700 –> 00:35:24,600
handling that situation after
Jesus was a raise.

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00:35:24,600 –> 00:35:26,900
I’d had in walk into Paris
office barge, right through the

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00:35:26,908 –> 00:35:28,000
secretary.
Take palette.

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00:35:28,000 –> 00:35:29,800
You wash your hands of me.
Look at me now.

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00:35:30,800 –> 00:35:33,800
Pilot never sign.
I have to pay obviously High

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00:35:33,800 –> 00:35:36,300
priests.
You high priest.

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00:35:36,300 –> 00:35:39,300
Look what you did to me, you
don’t put your fingers in my

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00:35:39,300 –> 00:35:42,400
hands, he didn’t tell them, he
obviously knew that that was

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00:35:42,400 –> 00:35:46,700
Thomas one of his own is he God
works through weak people and

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00:35:46,700 –> 00:35:49,900
that’s us.
And his strength is made perfect

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00:35:49,900 –> 00:35:52,000
in weakness.
So don’t think that you can’t do

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00:35:52,000 –> 00:35:53,700
it because you’re weak.
Because you’re doing.

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00:35:53,700 –> 00:35:55,200
Your best is better than being
the best.

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00:35:55,200 –> 00:35:57,700
Don’t forget it.
My strength is made perfect.

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00:35:57,700 –> 00:36:06,300
In weakness. and because of
that, Paul says o most gladly

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00:36:06,300 –> 00:36:10,400
therefore will I glory in my
infirmities that the power of

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00:36:10,400 –> 00:36:14,400
Christ May rest upon me.
I take pleasure in infirmities I

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00:36:14,400 –> 00:36:17,300
take pleasure in reproaches I
take pleasure in the census I

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00:36:17,300 –> 00:36:18,600
take pleasure in with her
secures.

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00:36:18,700 –> 00:36:23,600
I take pleasure in distresses.
Why for Christ’s sake for when I

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00:36:23,600 –> 00:36:28,000
am weak Then am I strong?
It’s just that Paradox.

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00:36:28,000 –> 00:36:29,100
Is this?
The opposite away?

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00:36:29,100 –> 00:36:32,500
We do, we think weakness, brings
weakness, and strength of a

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00:36:32,500 –> 00:36:35,200
strength and God says I’m
working through you, weak

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00:36:35,200 –> 00:36:39,400
people, you do your best and
what we review, our you be happy

621
00:36:39,400 –> 00:36:42,800
and you rejoice, and you be
thankful for what you do have

622
00:36:43,600 –> 00:36:48,400
right now.
Paul told the Romans we glory in

623
00:36:48,400 –> 00:36:51,400
Tribulation, why in the world
would you ever do that Paul?

624
00:36:52,100 –> 00:36:56,800
Well because tribulation worketh
patience and patience experience

625
00:36:56,900 –> 00:37:01,200
and experience hope and hope
maketh not ashamed because the

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00:37:01,200 –> 00:37:05,700
love of God is she’d abroad in
our hearts to Glory over

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00:37:05,700 –> 00:37:07,300
something.
Needs to be happy about it.

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00:37:08,000 –> 00:37:10,100
So you have troubles.
Congratulations.

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You’re alive.
Paul wants us to be happy with

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00:37:14,700 –> 00:37:17,300
the condition.
In right now.

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First Timothy 6:6 godliness with
contentment is great gain.

632
00:37:24,300 –> 00:37:26,100
We brought nothing into this
world and it is certain we can

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00:37:26,100 –> 00:37:28,500
carry nothing out.
Can’t take it with you.

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00:37:29,900 –> 00:37:33,900
Pause in prison.
He’s got troubles.

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00:37:34,100 –> 00:37:36,600
What do you do when life hands
you a lemon?

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00:37:37,500 –> 00:37:40,400
I mean, like, does and as
members of times, doesn’t it?

637
00:37:40,800 –> 00:37:43,500
You say, oh, I got a terrible
trouble, you got a little bit,

638
00:37:44,300 –> 00:37:51,400
make a lemonade Turn your your
trials into triumphs we’re to

639
00:37:51,400 –> 00:37:53,000
overcome.
Jesus says blessed.

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00:37:53,000 –> 00:37:56,300
Is he that overcometh?
Imagine trying to overcome when

641
00:37:56,300 –> 00:37:59,600
there’s nothing to overcome and
as you go around, playing tennis

642
00:37:59,600 –> 00:38:01,900
with me, you have to play
tennis, we’ll have a good time.

643
00:38:01,900 –> 00:38:04,000
Every time you serve me the
ball, I’ll stand there and watch

644
00:38:04,000 –> 00:38:06,800
him, Hit The Back Fence.
Then I serve the ball to you and

645
00:38:06,800 –> 00:38:08,700
you hit it back and I want to
hit The Back Fence.

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00:38:08,900 –> 00:38:11,500
We are going to really have a
great game of tennis, right?

647
00:38:13,100 –> 00:38:16,000
Do you want me to be able to
return your serve?

648
00:38:16,600 –> 00:38:19,000
you want me to give you some
competition, you want to

649
00:38:19,008 –> 00:38:22,900
overcome, you want, you want to
beat me but just barely But you

650
00:38:22,900 –> 00:38:27,200
see, it’s no fun even in sports,
if there’s no opposition, no.

651
00:38:27,700 –> 00:38:32,700
Even even melodramas, I mean, if
the, it’s a hero got, the got

652
00:38:32,700 –> 00:38:36,000
the girl in The First Act and
the villain was vanquished.

653
00:38:36,200 –> 00:38:39,000
Their you say, it was a lousy
play all the way through.

654
00:38:39,000 –> 00:38:41,600
You don’t know, of course, at
the end of it turns out but you

655
00:38:41,607 –> 00:38:45,600
see in the entertainment in
life, we like opposition.

656
00:38:46,300 –> 00:38:48,800
But when it comes to me and my
little like, well I don’t want

657
00:38:48,800 –> 00:38:52,000
any troubles are all God just
make it all blue sky for me.

658
00:38:52,700 –> 00:38:54,000
And that’s not what he’s
promised us.

659
00:38:54,200 –> 00:38:57,500
He saying that we have to be
happy with opposition.

660
00:38:57,500 –> 00:38:59,300
We have to be happy.
What’s trials.

661
00:38:59,300 –> 00:39:00,900
We have to be happy in
adversity.

662
00:39:00,900 –> 00:39:03,200
If you have a wooden leg you got
a choice.

663
00:39:03,500 –> 00:39:05,300
You have a wooden leg.
That’s a fact.

664
00:39:05,500 –> 00:39:09,700
Now you can be miserable or you
can be happy but either way, you

665
00:39:09,707 –> 00:39:13,400
got a wooden leg.
So learn to be happy and walk on

666
00:39:13,400 –> 00:39:15,600
it.
It won’t make any things better

667
00:39:15,600 –> 00:39:19,200
because you sit down and cry
about your wouldn’t late, get up

668
00:39:19,200 –> 00:39:22,400
and try to walk on it and even
people that don’t know the

669
00:39:22,400 –> 00:39:24,000
truth.
There’s story after Story of

670
00:39:24,000 –> 00:39:26,400
people who have overcome
adversities, physical

671
00:39:26,400 –> 00:39:28,900
adversities, and financial,
reverses adversities, and they

672
00:39:28,900 –> 00:39:32,100
were made Stronger by it.
And here we are God’s chosen

673
00:39:32,100 –> 00:39:34,200
people and we don’t want any
trouble.

674
00:39:36,100 –> 00:39:37,700
And God is saying, look whom the
Lord.

675
00:39:37,700 –> 00:39:39,800
Loveth, he chasteneth and
scourges every son whom he

676
00:39:39,800 –> 00:39:42,100
receiveth.
I’m, I got bigger and better

677
00:39:42,100 –> 00:39:44,600
things for you.
I’m trying to help you.

678
00:39:45,300 –> 00:39:48,000
There’s a true story about a
golfer that has one arm.

679
00:39:48,600 –> 00:39:51,800
He’s quite a good golfers, he
was asked how he could play.

680
00:39:51,800 –> 00:39:58,600
So well with one arm, And he
said, I have discovered that a

681
00:39:58,600 –> 00:40:05,000
good mental attitude, and one
arm is better than a bad metal,

682
00:40:05,300 –> 00:40:07,900
bad mental attitude and two
arms.

683
00:40:09,200 –> 00:40:13,000
It’s what you think that counts,
I can do all things through

684
00:40:13,000 –> 00:40:16,000
Christ, which strengthens me?
I have learned in whatsoever,

685
00:40:16,000 –> 00:40:18,400
State on him therewith to be
content.

686
00:40:18,500 –> 00:40:22,700
That’s the key to happiness.
That’s the key to Joy.

687
00:40:23,000 –> 00:40:25,300
You will remember it to be over
and we open our classes.

688
00:40:25,300 –> 00:40:28,100
We said that.
We were going to learn the

689
00:40:28,100 –> 00:40:31,100
secret of true happiness.
Paul is the one teaching us this

690
00:40:31,100 –> 00:40:36,500
secret and it’s the Lord Jesus
that taught it to Paul because

691
00:40:36,500 –> 00:40:39,400
true happiness is a state of
mind.

692
00:40:40,700 –> 00:40:44,000
We decide if we’re going to be
happy or miserable and we make

693
00:40:44,000 –> 00:40:47,600
that decision almost every
moment of the day and we could

694
00:40:47,600 –> 00:40:51,300
be happy when things are not
going well and we can be

695
00:40:51,300 –> 00:40:54,000
miserable even here at bible
school.

696
00:40:54,000 –> 00:40:55,800
There’s somebody up here
miserable.

697
00:40:56,200 –> 00:40:59,600
I hope they won’t be after today
but they won’t if once you

698
00:40:59,600 –> 00:41:03,200
decided to be miserable and you
love misery then your I’m not

699
00:41:03,200 –> 00:41:05,600
gonna lose my misery.
I’ll enjoy it too much.

700
00:41:05,600 –> 00:41:09,800
I think some people really
almost, you know, it’s very hard

701
00:41:09,800 –> 00:41:12,500
to change.
It’s just like, but look at it

702
00:41:12,600 –> 00:41:14,700
and there’s a key.
There’s something you can do.

703
00:41:14,800 –> 00:41:17,100
And the thing you do is you
learn Bible verses and you keep

704
00:41:17,100 –> 00:41:18,900
putting them feel your head and
you keep putting them through

705
00:41:18,900 –> 00:41:20,900
your head.
And they finally finally filled

706
00:41:20,900 –> 00:41:24,400
her down some of this kind of
hangs in there that goes by.

707
00:41:24,800 –> 00:41:27,400
I mean, you take a pot of coffee
and you put some coffee on the

708
00:41:27,400 –> 00:41:30,300
top and one on the bottom and
you plug it in, it will group.

709
00:41:30,800 –> 00:41:33,300
And you say, here’s a cup of
coffee, you say that’s just

710
00:41:33,300 –> 00:41:35,500
colored water.
It’s got a bloop, a lot of times

711
00:41:35,500 –> 00:41:40,100
hasn’t it?
I mean, it takes a 1 up to bloop

712
00:41:40,600 –> 00:41:43,400
And his brother, Mansfield tells
you, it takes a long time for

713
00:41:43,400 –> 00:41:46,000
tea to see poor steep steep in
it.

714
00:41:46,800 –> 00:41:49,600
You got to make it just right
rolling waters and if you don’t

715
00:41:49,600 –> 00:41:51,900
pour the water in a torpor,
imagine a cup of tea, you won’t

716
00:41:51,900 –> 00:41:55,500
have it.
But if you let it steep a while,

717
00:41:55,800 –> 00:41:58,800
then it gets rich.
And so if you wake up and

718
00:41:58,800 –> 00:42:01,400
feeling miserable start doing
something.

719
00:42:01,900 –> 00:42:05,000
Feed the versus through, not
just once you did a lot of books

720
00:42:05,500 –> 00:42:10,700
before you get this change.
Think about poor Jonah.

721
00:42:12,200 –> 00:42:14,400
Jonah Crush.
You all know the story?

722
00:42:14,400 –> 00:42:18,000
Well, he’s been miraculously
rested on all from the belly of

723
00:42:18,000 –> 00:42:21,200
the whale.
He really didn’t care about

724
00:42:21,200 –> 00:42:23,800
people because he was sad,
because the people of Nineveh

725
00:42:24,800 –> 00:42:27,800
repented, and God didn’t kill
Mike, he won them to, oh God

726
00:42:27,800 –> 00:42:31,400
kill know him.
And then he goes out to watch

727
00:42:31,400 –> 00:42:32,500
and see what he’s?
I knew.

728
00:42:32,500 –> 00:42:36,100
God was going to do it.
So God, mrs.

729
00:42:36,100 –> 00:42:40,500
Nice brushed plant to grow up
over him, and then God prepares

730
00:42:40,500 –> 00:42:42,500
a little worm in the worm kills,
the plant.

731
00:42:43,000 –> 00:42:46,300
And here’s Joe, do, so miserable
he wants to die.

732
00:42:46,700 –> 00:42:48,600
Why?
Because a plant died.

733
00:42:49,800 –> 00:42:51,700
I mean, if you want to be
miserable, you could find

734
00:42:51,700 –> 00:42:54,000
something to be moving about,
you grow in your garden and

735
00:42:54,000 –> 00:42:55,800
there’s some weeds while I’m
gonna have a reason to be

736
00:42:55,800 –> 00:42:59,800
miserable today.
You can always find something

737
00:43:00,200 –> 00:43:03,800
and we think how silly to be
miserable because a plant died

738
00:43:03,800 –> 00:43:05,900
Jonah.
But if you decide to be

739
00:43:05,900 –> 00:43:08,000
miserable, you’ll find a reason.
Don’t worry.

740
00:43:08,500 –> 00:43:11,200
And yet, Paul is just telling us
the opposite of that.

741
00:43:11,500 –> 00:43:14,600
He’s saying we can be happy no
matter what condition were in no

742
00:43:14,600 –> 00:43:16,800
matter where we are or what
we’re doing.

743
00:43:17,800 –> 00:43:21,400
You see Paul had from a worldly
view point at one time,

744
00:43:21,400 –> 00:43:25,200
everything going for him, all
the things that seemed important

745
00:43:25,300 –> 00:43:28,400
from a world of you but he had
he listened to Chapter 3 of

746
00:43:28,400 –> 00:43:31,400
Philippians.
He left seven things, he was

747
00:43:31,400 –> 00:43:33,800
circumcised the eighth day.
He was to the stock of Israel of

748
00:43:33,808 –> 00:43:36,500
The Tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew
of the Hebrews as touching.

749
00:43:36,500 –> 00:43:39,100
The law, a Pharisee concerning
Zeal, persecuting the church

750
00:43:39,400 –> 00:43:41,500
touching the righteousness which
is the law blameless.

751
00:43:42,000 –> 00:43:45,500
He tell, you can say I belong to
the Rockefeller family.

752
00:43:45,500 –> 00:43:49,000
I graduated from Harvard, I’m Of
a company I can hold this going

753
00:43:49,000 –> 00:43:51,000
for me.
I belong the fanciest Country

754
00:43:51,000 –> 00:43:52,900
Club.
I had the biggest house in town.

755
00:43:54,100 –> 00:43:57,500
And that’s what people will
world thinks are important and

756
00:43:57,600 –> 00:44:00,500
what is Paul think of all those
things, all these things that

757
00:44:00,500 –> 00:44:03,400
some people think they’ll be
happy when they get and when

758
00:44:03,400 –> 00:44:05,200
they get it they’re not happy.
And then they think they want

759
00:44:05,200 –> 00:44:07,100
something else and I get that.
They’ll be here and they go

760
00:44:07,100 –> 00:44:09,400
through life winning.
And Paul says, you just

761
00:44:09,400 –> 00:44:13,200
christadelphians you’re gonna be
happy right now where you are

762
00:44:13,400 –> 00:44:17,900
because all those things I
consider that just dumb refuse,

763
00:44:17,900 –> 00:44:21,100
it doesn’t matter, just that I
can win Christ, that’s all that

764
00:44:21,100 –> 00:44:24,600
matters to me.
To win cries.

765
00:44:25,500 –> 00:44:29,500
And we’re up here this week,
learning how to win Christ.

766
00:44:29,500 –> 00:44:34,500
We’re up here to learn how to be
happy to fit our lives into

767
00:44:34,500 –> 00:44:40,200
Christ mole to fold Christ to
follow Paul, who was following

768
00:44:40,200 –> 00:44:42,400
Christ.
If you’ll follow Paul, you’ll be

769
00:44:42,400 –> 00:44:46,300
leader right into the kingdom.
You follow the wrong person.

770
00:44:46,400 –> 00:44:48,800
You’re going to go the wrong way
and people sometimes follow

771
00:44:48,800 –> 00:44:50,400
people, they don’t know who
they’re following.

772
00:44:50,700 –> 00:44:53,200
There’s a story where this
fellow was in the Fall Guy.

773
00:44:53,400 –> 00:44:55,800
Is going to the fog.
He wasn’t familiar, ground it,

774
00:44:55,800 –> 00:44:58,700
so he’s on another car going
inside to follow the fella, and

775
00:44:58,700 –> 00:45:00,600
the photos seem to just know
where he’s going to be just kept

776
00:45:00,600 –> 00:45:03,800
following if something and all
of a sudden that fellow stopped

777
00:45:03,900 –> 00:45:06,000
without any warranty and he
bumped into him.

778
00:45:06,100 –> 00:45:07,500
He’s what, right?
Did you have to stop?

779
00:45:07,500 –> 00:45:09,000
He said, well, I’m in my
driveway.

780
00:45:13,800 –> 00:45:15,900
But you say, if you follow
somebody and you don’t know

781
00:45:15,900 –> 00:45:17,900
where they’re going, they’re
gonna lead you where you don’t

782
00:45:17,900 –> 00:45:20,100
want to go and he’d want to go
to that man’s driveway.

783
00:45:22,700 –> 00:45:27,500
I mean are you following Jesus?
Are you following Paul?

784
00:45:27,900 –> 00:45:30,800
Are you, are you happy?
Are you taking the words of

785
00:45:30,800 –> 00:45:35,900
Jesus said, literally he said,
rejoice and leap for Joy.

786
00:45:36,100 –> 00:45:39,800
Just try it when you feel down,
just get in your house and it

787
00:45:39,800 –> 00:45:42,100
makes such a doors over your
see, the to the, you’re crazy

788
00:45:42,100 –> 00:45:44,800
afterwards, you could.
Do you all think?

789
00:45:44,800 –> 00:45:50,600
I am but Jesus said those words
and he met them and he wasn’t

790
00:45:50,700 –> 00:45:53,700
that wasn’t an idol phrase.
It wasn’t just a thing to put in

791
00:45:53,700 –> 00:45:59,200
the Bible, he said, because when
you leap it’s exaggerated get a

792
00:45:59,207 –> 00:46:03,500
trampoline so you can leave
higher but leap for Joy.

793
00:46:03,600 –> 00:46:08,500
When you have trouble try it.
I bet you never have I don’t

794
00:46:08,500 –> 00:46:10,800
bet.
But I mean, I, I would, I would

795
00:46:10,800 –> 00:46:23,600
think you never had So, the
secret of happiness is found

796
00:46:23,600 –> 00:46:27,900
here.
The Secret of happiness is to be

797
00:46:27,900 –> 00:46:32,000
content with what you have, not
what something you don’t have.

798
00:46:32,200 –> 00:46:35,800
Accept the lot that you have,
accept the fact that God knows

799
00:46:35,800 –> 00:46:39,000
more about you than you do, he
knows what you should have and

800
00:46:39,000 –> 00:46:41,300
what you shouldn’t have.
He knows whether you should have

801
00:46:41,300 –> 00:46:43,700
poverty or riches.
He’s never given us neither of

802
00:46:43,707 –> 00:46:45,700
those as he I mean, there isn’t
anybody here?

803
00:46:45,700 –> 00:46:47,200
That’s completely
poverty-stricken.

804
00:46:47,200 –> 00:46:50,000
There’s nobody here, very rich.
We’re all in that middle group.

805
00:46:50,600 –> 00:46:52,900
But you see if we trust in
Riches, of course, that’s the

806
00:46:52,900 –> 00:46:55,700
end of us, money.
Of course, is That is the root

807
00:46:55,700 –> 00:47:00,300
of all evil, right?
Wrong, Louisville.

808
00:47:00,300 –> 00:47:02,700
It there’s only one group of
people who love money more than

809
00:47:02,700 –> 00:47:04,100
rich people and that’s poor
people.

810
00:47:06,400 –> 00:47:09,300
It’s not wrong to have it.
It’s wrong to love it.

811
00:47:09,600 –> 00:47:12,500
And so don’t be happy when you
have some money, or when you

812
00:47:12,500 –> 00:47:14,800
have this, you’ll be happy right
now.

813
00:47:15,000 –> 00:47:17,600
I’ve learned, says, Paul.
You have to learn this.

814
00:47:17,600 –> 00:47:20,100
I’ve learned in whatsoever,
State, I am therewith to be

815
00:47:20,100 –> 00:47:22,500
content.
I can do all things through

816
00:47:22,500 –> 00:47:26,400
Christ, which strengtheneth me
if you’re not happy.

817
00:47:28,800 –> 00:47:32,600
It’s not God’s fault.
Happy.

818
00:47:32,600 –> 00:47:36,600
Is he that hath?
The god of Jacob for his help,

819
00:47:37,300 –> 00:47:41,400
whose hope is in the Lord.
His God, it is that you do.

820
00:47:42,100 –> 00:47:45,900
I mean, is God, you’re gone.
Your christadelphians aren’t ya?

821
00:47:46,200 –> 00:47:48,800
You’re not a Christian Alpha,
you know, you should be and, you

822
00:47:48,808 –> 00:47:51,900
know, that we want you to be
and, you know that Jesus died.

823
00:47:51,900 –> 00:47:54,600
So you could be because of
Christ brother means

824
00:47:54,600 –> 00:48:01,900
christadelphians and so happy
are you if God is your god And

825
00:48:01,900 –> 00:48:04,500
if he’s not well then that’s
your fault.

826
00:48:04,900 –> 00:48:06,500
It’s something to do.
You got something to do, I

827
00:48:06,508 –> 00:48:11,700
haven’t you?
Jesus says come to me all ye

828
00:48:11,700 –> 00:48:13,400
that labor and are heavy laden
with it boy.

829
00:48:13,400 –> 00:48:16,100
Am I working hard?
I got Labor’s, I’m heavily, take

830
00:48:16,100 –> 00:48:19,800
my yoke upon you and learn of me
says, I’ll help you.

831
00:48:20,200 –> 00:48:22,200
For my yoke is easy.
And my burden is light.

832
00:48:22,200 –> 00:48:25,300
I’ll help you says Jesus.
Oh, no, we’re good myself.

833
00:48:25,900 –> 00:48:27,600
Why would we ever want to do it
ourselves on?

834
00:48:27,600 –> 00:48:31,400
Jesus wants to help us.
True happiness is being you.

835
00:48:31,600 –> 00:48:37,800
Together with Jesus.
And if you yoke up with Jesus

836
00:48:37,900 –> 00:48:41,600
and you believe what Paul said
and you accept God as your

837
00:48:41,600 –> 00:48:47,400
father, you are miserable, how
could you be miserable with the

838
00:48:47,400 –> 00:48:50,100
faith and the hope that you
have?

839
00:48:50,100 –> 00:48:53,100
You have the Hope where the
aristocracy of the world?

840
00:48:53,200 –> 00:48:56,800
We are the God’s chosen people.
We are arboreal Nation A

841
00:48:56,808 –> 00:49:00,900
peculiar people, a chosen
generation that’s you and you’re

842
00:49:00,900 –> 00:49:05,000
not happy.
What would it take to make you

843
00:49:05,000 –> 00:49:14,000
happy?
You have to decide.

844
00:49:16,400 –> 00:49:19,700
That you are going to be happy
and you’re going to be happy

845
00:49:20,000 –> 00:49:21,900
because you’re going to count
your blessings.

846
00:49:22,400 –> 00:49:25,800
You’re going to be happy because
you belong to Jesus, and you’re

847
00:49:25,800 –> 00:49:29,300
going to be happy in whatever
state you’re in, and you’re

848
00:49:29,300 –> 00:49:32,600
going to be happy because you
can do all things through

849
00:49:32,600 –> 00:49:40,300
Christ, which strengtheneth you.
So today, your homework from a

850
00:49:40,300 –> 00:49:42,900
member of your point, is very
easy, it’s just that one little

851
00:49:42,900 –> 00:49:45,900
verse.
I can do all things through

852
00:49:45,900 –> 00:49:48,600
Christ, which strengtheneth me?
But that’s just a memory part.

853
00:49:48,600 –> 00:49:54,500
You’ve got written work today,
besides you have a new new

854
00:49:54,500 –> 00:49:57,300
little slip that you would
receive you to make a list of

855
00:49:57,300 –> 00:49:59,500
the things you’re thankful for.
Now you could make a list of all

856
00:49:59,500 –> 00:50:02,200
the things that are that are at
your unthankful for, but that’s

857
00:50:02,400 –> 00:50:05,000
pessimism and negativism, then
you don’t want to do that.

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00:50:06,200 –> 00:50:09,500
God shall supply all your need,
according to his riches in Glory

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by Christ.
Jesus, verse 19 of chapter 4, I

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want you to in, please can’t
make you list your blessings.

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If you’re married put down as
one of your blessings, your

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spouse.
A good wife is of the Lord and a

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good husband.
I’m sure is to thank God for

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your children.
Make a list, you can use the

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back, you can use more Peach.
You can go make the best much,

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but make a list of all the
things you’re thankful for.

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You got eyes.
You.

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Oh, well, nearly all of us can
see for the Martin cannot, but

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he can be happy though, blind.
He has the hope the blinds.

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You’ll see some of you are deaf.
The deaf will hear some of you

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are late.
The lame shall leap?

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Again leap.
Love you, can’t wait for Joy,

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but but try to LEAP, like,
mentally.

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If you can’t leave physically,
but decide that you did, because

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you choose your feelings, choose
to be happy in the Lord.

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Believe that this Bible is a
living book and these Rings were

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written for your learning.
Remember, brothers and sisters,

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you can do all things through
Christ.

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Which strengtheneth you?