Bob Lloyd – Class 3: Life is a Test, Life is a Trust

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But without reading serving as
an introduction, I call upon

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brother Bob to give us an ex
exciting installment of the way

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of life.
Thank you.

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Don’t move as fast as I used to.
Well, good evening, two actors,

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good afternoon.
The last two talks for now,

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we’ve had this wonderful meal
and don’t you think these

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brothers and sisters have worked
very hard and providing for our

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necessities and delivering that
good food to us and we thank all

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of you who have worked.
So tirelessly behind the scenes

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to make these kind of gatherings
possible.

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They don’t just happen, it’s a
lot of people working together.

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Bring about these gatherings and
so all of us who are here are

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recipients of that and we thank
you for that.

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Well I hope you don’t haven’t
got an overdose of me.

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I promise this is the last Talk
of the day but there’s some more

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coming up tomorrow so I hope
you’ll come back.

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Our key verse.
And all these classes is from

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John 14, which we read for a
first-class where Jesus said, I

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am the way, the truth, and the
life.

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No man cometh unto the father,
but by me, so Jesus is the way.

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And we can’t come to the father
except through Jesus.

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And we even when we pray, we
pray in Jesus name.

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And so, if we want to be in the
way of life, we have to be

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following the Lord Jesus Christ,
and as we’ve mentioned before,

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there are lots of wrong ways.
But there’s only one, right way.

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And we not free to make up our
own rules, and that’s the

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problem with the world today,
people make up their own

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religion.
And then say, if God is, just,

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he accept me for believing what
I want to believe.

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And we had the audacity to tell
God what we’re going to do.

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He is the boss and if he’s the
boss, you’re not the boss.

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And if he’s the boss, we find
out what he wants us to do.

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And then to the best of our
ability, we try to do it and

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aren’t we thankful for
forgiveness?

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Because if it weren’t for
forgiveness, none of us would be

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in the Kingdom but because of
the forgiveness and the mercy of

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God, we can all be in the
Kingdom.

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We, if we want to be in the
Kingdom, so we have to make that

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commitment that we want to be in
the kingdom of God.

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More than anything else in all
the world.

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Jesus said to us in, Matthew 10,
he that endureth to the end

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shall be saved.
So, this is a matter of keeping

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on keeping on.
You have to can’t just be a

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one-night.
Stand, christadelphians are not

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Sunday christadelphians where
seven days a week. 24/7 is a

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phrase we have over, are we
going 24 hours a day?

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7 days a week?
And so that’s the way we serve

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the Lord all the time in our
first class just as a review, we

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looked at the high hurdler who
has to jump over the hurdles in

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order to win.
We must overcome the hurdles in

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our life and so thinking of them
as something bad, we need to

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think of them as something good
helping us to get into the

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kingdom.
Jesus said in Revelations 21.

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He that overcometh shall inherit
all things.

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And I will be his God and he
shall be my son in our second

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class.
We weren’t learned that God

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wants us in his kingdom, but we
have to want it ourselves or we

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won’t be there.
He that loveth father is Jesus

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talking talking to you.
And to me, he that loveth father

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or mother more than me is.
Not worthy of me.

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Doesn’t mean you’re not to love
your father and mother, you must

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love God.
And Jesus more.

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But didn’t Jesus didn’t stop
there, he that loveth son or

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daughter more than me is not
worthy of me.

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And certainly, we do love our
children, and this room is full

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of beautiful little children,
and I can tell that your parents

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are very much in love with him.
And you’ve been working very

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hard to be a good parent and you
are to love them.

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But you must never even put your
children ahead of God or ahead

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of the Lord Jesus Christ.
So it’s a matter of prioritizing

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our life.
So that the right things are

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number one.
If God, and Jesus are not number

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one, in your life, it does not
matter where they are.

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Now, you may say, well, they
used to be number seven.

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Another number for well, you’re
going in the right direction,

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but until they are number one in
our life.

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We are hopeless and so we have
to have this all-consuming.

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Love love the Lord, thy God with
all thy heart and all this.

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All this particular all them.
It’s it’s the egg of a

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self-sacrificing love and you
have to have that for God and if

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you don’t, you can get it.
But you have to work at it.

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Remember that, even Peter?
Jesus asked him three times.

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Do you love me?
Well, no he didn’t.

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He ask him to times.
Do you a Gap?

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A me.
Peter who had denied him three

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times couldn’t bring himself to
say I can pay you.

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So Jesus says, do you have this
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Love for me and Peter would say,
Lord, you know, I have a very

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warm and friendly feeling toward
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And Jesus will say, do you have
this a Gap?

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A self-sacrificing.
Love for me.

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And Peter said, Lord, you know,
that I have a very warm and

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friendly love towards you and
then Jesus changed the word to

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the word that Peter was using.
Do you filial to you have this

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warm and friendly?
Love to me?

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No wonder Peter was grieved
because this was the third time,

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but he now uses the same word
that Peter was using.

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We lose a little bit of that in
the English.

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But you all know how the words
in the Greek there And so he was

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grieved, he said, you know, all
things, you know, I love you,

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but the answer every time was
what you do with what do you do

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with this love feed my Lambs,
feed my sheep.

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You know, this room is full of
them.

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These brothers and sisters and
sitting on each side of you

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behind you.
In front of you.

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Those are the Sheep.
We are to be feeding and others

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that are not here tonight.
But are we conscious

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conscientiously looking after
the needs of others?

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More than we look after our
self.

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Now the Lord Jesus gave us a
good example of this because he

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was hungry.
Now, you’re not hungry.

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Now you’ve just had a very nice
meal and we all appreciated it

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but you have never in your life
been as hungry as Jesus was

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Because I know you have never
gone 40 days without food.

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He was starving.
He had the power to turn stones

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into bread.
He could have used God’s power

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to feed himself, he refused to
do that and he was really

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hungry, then he’s out preaching
and he disciples, they sent the

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multitude of ways old know.
They’ve been with us a few days

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that I’m afraid your fate.
Let’s do a miracle and feed him.

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So, Jesus would do a miracle to
feed others.

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When he wouldn’t do a miracle to
feed himself.

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Now, that’s the egg of a love.
That’s the self-sacrificing that

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that’s the kind of love.
We must have for God for Jesus,

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and we need to have it for each
other.

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And so, and when Peter wrote his
first letter, he said to the

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Brethren, take your fervent
filial, love.

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And see that you turn it into an
a Gap, a self-sacrificing, love

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of one another, he said your
filial love was, unfaithful you,

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it’s nothing phony.
You really do love your brother

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and sisters but the question is
are you putting their needs

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ahead of yours?
If there was only one meal left

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and it was to several here,
would you take it first?

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What would you say?
No, you have it.

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Are we sacrificing our self for
others?

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Now, I tell you what.
Having children shows us how to

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do this because a good parrot,
really does.

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Put the needs of their little
children ahead of their own.

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They’re tired, they’re sleepy.
They’re in bed.

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The baby’s crying, you scold.
You don’t want to get out of bed

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before, but you do You, you put
the needs of a little child

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ahead of your own needs, and
that’s the kind of love.

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God is looking for us to do with
each other, certainly our

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family, but also others.
Do good unto all men, especially

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those of the household of faith.
So if we love anything more than

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we love the Lord, then whatever
that thing is, is our God, and

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it could be our family.
I mean, even the mafia loves

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their mother.
I mean, I mean, mama fixing up.

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A big spaghetti dinner?
You’re going out to whip

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somebody after you better go eat
first, you know?

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So they, they do kind things to
other people to help them do bad

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things.
But you see our love is

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motivated because of our love
for God and we just forget about

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yourself don’t even think about
yourself.

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Think.
What can I do to help someone

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else?
That’s the way Jesus lived.

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That’s the way he wants us to
live and he said, take up your

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cross and follow me.
Now, we want to in this class to

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examine our attitude because our
attitude more than our attitude

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will determine our altitude.
I hope you got that attitude

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attitude, attitude, attitude and
altitude.

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Because if you really want to
soar High, you’ve got to have

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the right attitude.
Now there I know this won’t

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shock you But there’s a lot
smarter people in the world than

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us.
I mean, there are people out

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there in the world with higher
IQs than any of us have.

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There are some brilliant people
in this world who have a lot of

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Savvy of the world.
But that brain power that they

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have will not get them into the
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In fact, this is interesting
because we remember that Jesus

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was called a Man of Sorrows and
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Do you know something that made
Jesus happy?

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It’s in.
Luke chapter 10 verse 21 at that

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time.
Jesus, full of joy.

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So here is a happy Jesus.
It says he was full of joy.

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Now, why was he so happy?
Because he said this, he’s

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talking to God, I pray.
Easy father, Lord of Heaven and

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Earth.
Because now, what was it that

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filled Jesus, withdrew, because
father, you have hidden these

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things from the wise in the
alerted and revealed them to

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Little Children.
Ye father for this was your good

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pleasure.
So Jesus is actually happy that

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God withheld the truth saving
truth that you and I know from

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these fiery smart mucky-mucks
who are too intelligent.

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To surrender to the Lord.
So if you have a lot of brain

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power, that’s not a sin but if
you don’t use it for the Lord,

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It’s a Sin.
But you see not many mighty, not

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many noble are called.
That’s what Paul tells us in

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First Corinthians for consider
your calling Brethren.

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How that, not many of you were
wise according to worldly

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standards.
Not many were powerful.

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Not many were of noble birth.
There’s no Blue Bloods in this

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group.
But God chose what is foolish in

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the world to shame?
The wise God chose what is weak

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in the world to shame?
The strong God chose?

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What is low?
And despised in the world even

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things which are not to bring to
nothing things that are now.

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Why did you do that?
God.

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So that no human might boast in
the presence of God, you have

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nothing to be proud about.
I confess.

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That I was born in Texas.
Now, I was born because my

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mother was there and I wanted to
be near her.

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But Texans are famous for being
braggarts.

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They’re the people of United
States or fall probably filled

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with more false Pride than any
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It’s not to say they have an
exclusive on it, but there is

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the well-known within the United
States as being that way.

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And if you go to Texas, you can
sure see it there.

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Bumper sticker says, Don’t Mess
with Texas, you know?

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And so I’ve Left Texas.
I hope the Texas attitude has

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left me.
Because none of us have any

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reason to be proud about
anything.

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And that’s what Jesus taught
policies.

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So that no human being might
boast in the presence of God

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because God is a source of your
life in Christ.

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Jesus, whom God made our wisdom,
our righteousness, and our

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sanctification, in our
Redemption.

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Therefore it is written.
Let him that boast boast in the,

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that’s the only thing you have
to boast about that.

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You know, the Lord and you’re
not puffed up about it.

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You’re just thankful about it.
Humility is a hard thing to talk

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about, because anybody who says
they are humble, they are You

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know, I’m a humble man, and I’m
proud of it, you know, talk

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about a contradiction of terms.
So soon, as you say you off, I

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arrived and I’ve got, I got
humble.

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Well, you just got done humble,
as you said that.

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But Jesus was so meek and lowly
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That would have put the human
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He was a Son of God.
He was born by a miracle.

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I mean, he had the Holy Spirit
without measure and yet he got

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down on his knees.
I think about this because you

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may have some enemies in life,
sometimes, we even get them in

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the Ecclesia, we don’t want to,
but sometimes it happens and

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somebody really doesn’t like
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And so the normal reaction, well
I don’t like them very much

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either.
Jesus knew who was going to

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betray him.
Jesus gave him the sup.

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Jesus got down on his hands and
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In front of Judas, Iscariot.
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Would you do that for your
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You see.
Jesus not only told us to love

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our enemies and bless those that
curse us and return.

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Good for evil, he was showing as
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Now meat being so human.
If I had picked up that dirty

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foot of Judas Iscariot and I had
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his big toe, I would be very
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A Twist It Off.
And that’s me and that’s wrong.

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I’m confessing my sins to you
because that would be my natural

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reaction.
But you see my natural reaction

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must not be allowed to come out
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Jesus didn’t tell us what to do.
He showed us what to do and so

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he’s actually happy that God has
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This wonderful promise of life
eternal from all these wise

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people, all these educated
people and they were true in his

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day to, how can this man?
No, never having never learn.

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Jesus didn’t have a college
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unlearned fisherman. not all of
them, but many of them were God

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has chosen the simple things to
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why I’m not many wise, not many
noble are called, because they

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are so puffed up with themselves
that they can’t humble

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themselves before God.
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hand of God, said Peter and he
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Now from the worldly view point.
We’re all nobody’s Our names are

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not household names and if we
die it doesn’t make the

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headlines of any paper man.
That is an honor to understand

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if not.
Well, they’re just like the

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animals are like the beasts that
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So there’s some very famous
people in this world and if they

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die their name is going to be in
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Nobody cares.
Our families care brother and

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sisters care, but we would never
leave a hole in the economy of

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the world as the people of the
world come to if they fall away

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and die.
So we need to just be thankful

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to have this attitude of
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us and he says, no man can come
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Except my father sent me draw
him out of the millions of

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people on the Earth, know the
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and he’s asked you to follow
Jesus to the kingdom.

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And with this attitude of
gratitude, we just so grateful

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that we now know the truth.
Not puffed up about it, that’s a

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oh I know something you don’t
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Knowledge could puff that but
love edifies.

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If we have the right kind of
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We will not be proud.
We will not be puffed up.

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We will just be grateful and
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Now we have to realize that this
life were now living is simply a

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dress rehearsal.
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And so we view what’s going on
in our lives different than the

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people around us.
Do.

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We just had an election in the
United States are the last

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Tuesday.
I left Wednesday and it was a

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Bala Thursday, but it was a big
deal in our country and some

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people are jumping up and down
for joy and other people are are

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feeling their ruined because
they’re their candidate or their

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things didn’t pass.
It’s all according to plan.

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God is ruling in the kingdoms of
men.

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Whoever gets in there is who
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You don’t have to worry about
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You know, if I have was not a
christadelphians, I’d be worried

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about Iraq.
That’s a, it’s a quagmire of me.

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I mean, we’re losing boys every
day and they don’t know who the

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enemy is.
And yet that’s all according to

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God’s plan.
Aren’t you thankful that he’s in

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charge?
That means we’re not.

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And so we don’t worry.
It’s going to all be just,

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right?
Because God is setting up Kings

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and he’s removing Kings, so our
attitude towards the world and

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people around us is so different
than it would be if we didn’t

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have the truth.
But we have to be thankful for

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this not proud for it.
Now Paul talked about his

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problems and he described them
his it’s a light Affliction and

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it only indoors for a moment.
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included.
Stonings shipwrecks, beatings.

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Things you and I have never gone
through.

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It’s just a light Affliction
only indoors for a moment.

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How long was his moment his
entire life, how long is your

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moment your entire life?
So our attitude toward these

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things are different because we
know that it’s all going to work

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out, not just us personally but
even for the world in general

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and so God is going to bring
about the events and the time of

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trouble is coming such as never
was since there was a nation

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even to that same.
Time and Daniel and it is not

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here yet.
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What trouble is?
And it’s coming and the world is

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not ready for it.
We could have an economic

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collapse.
We could have a military class.

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We have somebody pushed the
wrong button, but, you know, God

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is going to step in and
intervene because before says

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Revelation, those that would
destroy the Earth, will destroy

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it.
Now, when that was written in

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Revelation, how could you
destroy everybody on Earth, I

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mean, you had a sword, you know,
and you want to kill people,

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you’re going to do them one at a
time unless you can line them up

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and shish kebab them.
But you can’t kill very many

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people at a time back in those
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And now we realize that because
God has allowed knowledge to be

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increased and some idiot could
push a button and start start a

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nuclear war that would blow
everybody on Earth that Does it

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worry?
You know, it’s not in God’s

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plan.
He has a plan and there are

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people.
That’s why I think this country

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is worried.
As our country is, as Great.

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Britain about Iran, getting a
nuclear bomb about North Korea,

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getting one because those guys
are crazy and what will they do

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if they get it?
Does it worry you?

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Not at all?
Does it worry the world?

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Well, Luke says their men’s
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Fear and for looking, after
those things are coming upon the

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Earth, if you didn’t know the
truth and you just look at the

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newspapers, you are to be
quaking in your boots because

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there is no solution to the
problems that this world is

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facing.
And there’s only one solution

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and that’s God’s solution.
And that is going to be carried

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out.
And we want to be part of it.

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So we don’t get mixed up with
their Affairs because we will,

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we have a king and our man was
not running for office in this

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last election.
Because he’s going to be the

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king of the world.
Now, have an interesting

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question, I want to ask you and
I want you to say it out loud,

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but I just want you to answer
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How do you view your own life?
How do you view your life?

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The way we see our life will
sheep our life.

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We’re talking about the way of
life that’s our subject.

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How do you view your life now?
Different people after this

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different, even christadelphians
circles, it will not all see the

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same, some of the describe their
life as a circus.

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My life is a Minefield and I
knew the roller coaster.

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My line is a, my life is a
puzzle.

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It’s a symphony.
It’s a Some just grab their life

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like a merry-go-round going
round and round and up and up

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and up and down and never get
anywhere.

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Our subject is the way of life,
it’s useful.

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If each of us will just pick a
short phrase of two or three

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words that two pictures in your
own mind, your own life, So, I

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want you to think about this for
a minute, what, what image comes

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to your mind when you ask, how
do I view my life?

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You have a life metaphor.
You, you have a even

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unconsciously, even if you
haven’t thought it out and he

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has an effect upon your life.
Now, you can tell what some

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people’s life metaphor is about,
because they express it in the

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way they dress, or don’t in
their jewelry when they’re

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caught a mobiles, they drive. in
their hairstyle if I had hair to

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style in their Sports, in their
Hobbies, And so these people are

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busy doing what they think is
important and they have a my

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life metaphor and you have one
even though if you haven’t

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verbalized it we’re going to do
it this evening because I think

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you’ll help us.
For example, if we were to say

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well my life is like a party.
Well then your you principle of

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life will be to have fun.
I see my life as a race, then

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you will value speed.
I see my life as a marathon.

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Well then you’re going to talk
think about it.

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Durance.
What is your life metaphor?

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And the question is, could you
have a faulty life metaphor that

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needs to be replaced by a Godly
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And so, Paul speaking to us in
Romans, 12 says, I beseech you.

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He’s pleading, he’s not bawling
your eyes, please.

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I beseech you, therefore
Brethren by the mercies of God,

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that you present, your bodies, a
Living Sacrifice, holy

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acceptable, unto God, which is
your reasonable service and be

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not conformed to this world, but
be ye transformed by the

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renewing of your mind that ye
may prove.

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What is that good and acceptable
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Now, I like the Phillips
translation.

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Don’t let the word around you,
squeeze you into its mold and

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just think yourself as a mole
and the and you’re being

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squeezed and the world is what
mold and you’re being like a

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lump of clay.
You’re being squeezed into God’s

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will in this book and what in
the world do they turn on the

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television, your turn on radio.
They tell you by sudsy, wudsy,

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soap do this, go there to
whatever you and their

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programming.
Don’t leave home without it.

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What does that mean?
Anybody know.

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Huh, and American Express, who
told you?

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You see, American Express has
sent millions of dollars to

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squeeze us into its mold.
Now I think we shouldn’t leave

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home without a to but I don’t
think it’s American Express, I

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think it should be literature.
I think every time you walk out

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of your house you shouldn’t have
literature on you and you never

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know who you’re going to get to
talk to and they may ask you a

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question and you say oh there’s
when I come back I’ll see I’ve

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been on a bit over Australia.
Why did you go over Austria?

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I went over there to get some
talks to my church.

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What church Christian was?
What’s that here you are?

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So I think everyone of you, I do
not leave home without it but

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why don’t you don’t leave home
without it some literature

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because you never know when you
may be able to share it with

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somebody, but Paul here is
saying I beseech you to present

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your body a Living Sacrifice and
to do this, you do not be

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transformed.
We do not conform but be

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transformed by the renewing of
your mind.

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Now, you know that verse
everything in the New Testament,

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Jesus comes from Greek word.
And that word transformed comes

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from the Greek word metamorph.
Ooh.

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And metamorph who is a reserved
word for the wedmore metamorph

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00:28:37,500 –> 00:28:39,400
us?
And so I brought my little green

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00:28:39,400 –> 00:28:42,700
caterpillar with me, I had
trouble with this guy coming

437
00:28:42,700 –> 00:28:48,600
through customs, they look them
up and usually I just bring him

438
00:28:48,600 –> 00:28:51,400
along and you know slippers Went
through, but I was in South

439
00:28:51,400 –> 00:28:55,300
Africa with him a few years ago
and they were go through my

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00:28:55,300 –> 00:28:57,300
luggage.
And the guy says, what’s that?

441
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I got very passive sir that’s my
stuff.

442
00:29:03,000 –> 00:29:07,000
Caterpillar some people like
teddy bears, but I go for cat

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00:29:07,000 –> 00:29:10,500
appears.
He has no sense of humor.

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00:29:10,800 –> 00:29:12,800
He threw it in my base is get
out of here.

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00:29:13,700 –> 00:29:17,300
So this time for the first time
in my life I had a lady doing it

446
00:29:17,800 –> 00:29:21,100
and she says what is that?
And I said it’s my stuff

447
00:29:21,100 –> 00:29:23,700
caterpillar and she’s watching
stuffed with Isis.

448
00:29:23,700 –> 00:29:26,500
I don’t even know.
I think it’s some kind of beans.

449
00:29:26,600 –> 00:29:29,500
My daughter-in-law made this for
me many.

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00:29:29,700 –> 00:29:32,300
Maybe 20 years ago and I take
him all around the world,

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00:29:32,300 –> 00:29:35,800
because he belongs in Romans
chapter 12.

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00:29:37,200 –> 00:29:40,100
And Romans chapter 12 says, be
not conformed to this world but

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be transformed into had it by
the renewing of your mind.

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Now, this little caterpillar
talks to me and he says, Bob,

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00:29:47,600 –> 00:29:50,300
I’m going to fly someday.
This is, you never make it.

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00:29:50,300 –> 00:29:55,300
You’re too fat.
Yeah, you can’t fly and he says

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00:29:55,300 –> 00:29:57,300
no, no, no.
You don’t understand.

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00:29:57,600 –> 00:29:59,300
I’m going to go through
metamorphosis.

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00:29:59,300 –> 00:30:03,100
I’m going to go into a cocoon,
and I’m going to come out a

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00:30:03,100 –> 00:30:07,900
beautiful butterfly.
And you would never believe

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00:30:07,900 –> 00:30:11,500
this, if you didn’t already know
it, that little green

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00:30:11,500 –> 00:30:15,500
caterpillars, turn into
beautiful butterflies.

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00:30:16,600 –> 00:30:20,800
And that’s what Paul is talking
about, in Romans 12.

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He says, I want you to change as
much as a caterpillar changes

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when it becomes a butterfly and
I’ll tell you how to do it.

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He doesn’t just say, do it
without telling us how You do

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it, by the way, you think by the
renewing of your mind.

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00:30:43,700 –> 00:30:48,700
And so what you think about is
really important, are you

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00:30:48,700 –> 00:30:51,900
thinking about the right things
or are you letting the world

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00:30:52,000 –> 00:30:55,900
squeeze you down into its mold
and telling you, how you should

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00:30:55,900 –> 00:31:00,500
think?
So this life metaphor you that

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00:31:00,500 –> 00:31:04,500
you have, I want you to come up
with a couple of words that

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00:31:04,500 –> 00:31:07,000
describe to you.
Now, one of my business

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00:31:07,000 –> 00:31:11,500
associates for many years, had a
little sign on his death desk

475
00:31:11,900 –> 00:31:15,400
and it had two letters.
H, A be a TT.

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00:31:16,600 –> 00:31:21,100
I guess you would say that habit
not spelling, habit Moon and it

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00:31:21,100 –> 00:31:28,000
stood for this have a ball all
the time and he was a happy guy

478
00:31:28,600 –> 00:31:32,000
but that’s not a very good life
metaphor just have a ball on the

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00:31:32,000 –> 00:31:36,500
time but that was his We’re
trying to find out what is

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yours.
Now, the Bible is going to give

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us some metaphors.
We’re going to talk about three

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and see if one of these can be
yours.

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00:31:45,600 –> 00:31:50,400
They’re called the three, TS.
Life is a test.

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00:31:51,400 –> 00:31:54,900
What you like me to votes tests
are being tested and you are

485
00:31:54,900 –> 00:31:57,500
being tempted, your just hurdles
and your lane to jump.

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00:31:58,400 –> 00:32:03,800
Another one life is a trust.
And the third one, which we’ll

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00:32:03,800 –> 00:32:07,100
talk about tomorrow.
God willing is life is a

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00:32:07,100 –> 00:32:10,100
temporary assignment.
So we’re going to look at the

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00:32:10,100 –> 00:32:15,100
first two of those.
This evening life is a test and

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00:32:15,100 –> 00:32:21,400
life is a trust.
Now, God does test us words like

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00:32:21,400 –> 00:32:26,400
trials, Temptations?
Refining testing, they worker

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00:32:26,600 –> 00:32:30,000
hundreds of times in the Bible.
We’re told that God tested

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00:32:30,000 –> 00:32:33,300
Abraham by asking him to offer
up his Isaac.

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00:32:34,500 –> 00:32:36,400
God tested Jacob when he had to
work.

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00:32:36,600 –> 00:32:40,600
Another seven years for Rachel.
God tested Joseph.

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00:32:40,600 –> 00:32:44,900
Very severely and he came
through with flying colors Adam

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00:32:44,900 –> 00:32:48,800
and Eve failed their test.
The Garden of Eden, David

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00:32:48,800 –> 00:32:50,500
failed.
Some of his test.

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00:32:51,400 –> 00:32:55,600
We have examples of the faithful
passing their tests such as Ruth

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00:32:55,700 –> 00:32:58,400
and gesturing.
Daniel.

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00:32:59,600 –> 00:33:05,600
Character is both developed and
revealed by Tess and you need

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00:33:05,600 –> 00:33:08,300
might as well recognize affect
your life.

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00:33:09,300 –> 00:33:14,000
Is a test.
We’re always being tested by God

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00:33:14,200 –> 00:33:18,700
and he’s watching to see how you
respond to his test.

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00:33:18,700 –> 00:33:21,000
And we ought not to be
complaining when we are testing.

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00:33:21,600 –> 00:33:23,800
There was one student in a high
school.

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00:33:23,800 –> 00:33:26,300
He said, we this teacher of
hours.

508
00:33:26,500 –> 00:33:35,300
She gives us a surprise test
every Friday Now, if you get it

509
00:33:35,300 –> 00:33:37,900
every Friday, how is it a
surprise?

510
00:33:39,500 –> 00:33:47,200
But you know, that in school you
are tested in order to go to

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00:33:47,200 –> 00:33:50,300
work in, many it I have to have
a number of licenses.

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00:33:50,600 –> 00:33:53,500
I’ve had to take all kinds of
exams to get them.

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00:33:53,600 –> 00:33:58,400
I’m now so old and I’ve been an
insurance agent so many years

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00:33:58,400 –> 00:34:00,500
that I’m grandfathered and I
don’t have to even study

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00:34:00,500 –> 00:34:02,500
anymore.
I also don’t know anything.

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00:34:04,200 –> 00:34:05,900
I tell them at work, you know,
it’s not that I don’t know

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00:34:05,900 –> 00:34:07,900
anything.
Everything I know is now wrong

518
00:34:08,900 –> 00:34:10,900
because Our business keeps
changing.

519
00:34:11,199 –> 00:34:15,400
But we all of our employees
except me every year, have to

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00:34:15,400 –> 00:34:20,000
put in certain number of hours,
to keep their license.

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00:34:20,000 –> 00:34:23,100
Interesting.
So we’re doctors, you can’t just

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00:34:23,100 –> 00:34:24,800
become a doctor, you have can’t
become a law.

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00:34:24,800 –> 00:34:27,300
You have to pass the bar, and
I’m not telling bar that kind of

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00:34:27,300 –> 00:34:36,000
bar the bar, the bar exam.
But so life has tests and God

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00:34:36,000 –> 00:34:41,500
tests us.
God actually left King Hezekiah

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00:34:41,500 –> 00:34:44,000
on his own to testing.
We were told this so second

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00:34:44,000 –> 00:34:48,199
Chronicle, 32:31 went invoices
were set by the rulers of

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00:34:48,199 –> 00:34:53,100
Babylon to ask Hezekiah about
the miraculous sign that he had

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00:34:53,500 –> 00:34:55,300
had a that had occurred in the
land.

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00:34:57,000 –> 00:35:03,600
God left Hezekiah to test him
and to know everything that was

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00:35:03,600 –> 00:35:07,200
in his heart.
Sadly, we know that Hezekiah

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00:35:07,400 –> 00:35:10,500
failed that test his work.
I had enjoyed a very close

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00:35:10,500 –> 00:35:14,000
relationship to God and a
crucial point in his life, God

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00:35:14,000 –> 00:35:18,300
left him to test him and to
reveal a weakness.

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00:35:18,700 –> 00:35:23,100
He was forgiven for it.
You’ve been tested, sometimes we

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00:35:23,100 –> 00:35:26,000
pass our tests and sometimes we
fail.

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00:35:27,400 –> 00:35:30,800
But if you just realize that
life is a test, you’re not so

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00:35:30,800 –> 00:35:33,200
upset about you.
You accept it as a fact.

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00:35:33,200 –> 00:35:38,000
Yeah, I’m being tested and God
is watching to see how I react

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00:35:38,000 –> 00:35:43,000
them to the test.
God allows our adversaries to

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00:35:43,000 –> 00:35:45,200
challenge us to see how we
react.

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00:35:45,800 –> 00:35:49,200
We must overcome as Jesus had
told us to.

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00:35:50,200 –> 00:35:55,500
So, testing is part of life.
Don’t consider it a terrible

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00:35:55,500 –> 00:35:59,700
trial.
When Nehemiah God wanted

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00:35:59,700 –> 00:36:02,600
Nehemiah to build a wall around
Jerusalem.

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00:36:03,500 –> 00:36:07,200
He blessed him and had these
King bless him and give him all

547
00:36:07,200 –> 00:36:09,900
the provisions.
He needed, and he goes to build

548
00:36:09,900 –> 00:36:12,000
this wall and God.
Wanting to build it.

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00:36:12,000 –> 00:36:16,400
And what did God allow?
He large sample and to buy it

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00:36:16,400 –> 00:36:20,100
and give him and all these
people to give him all kinds of

551
00:36:20,100 –> 00:36:24,300
trouble.
You my was doing what God

552
00:36:24,300 –> 00:36:28,800
wanted.
In still, God testing him.

553
00:36:29,700 –> 00:36:32,300
You trying to do what God wants
you to do is.

554
00:36:32,600 –> 00:36:34,400
Well, I’m trying to do your will
God.

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00:36:34,600 –> 00:36:39,500
Why am I having this problem?
God is preparing you by the

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00:36:39,500 –> 00:36:40,600
test.
He gives you.

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00:36:41,000 –> 00:36:43,900
So that could be your life
metaphor.

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00:36:43,900 –> 00:36:47,300
My life is a test and I’m going
to pass it.

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00:36:48,100 –> 00:36:51,100
I can do all things through
Christ, who strengthens me and

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00:36:51,100 –> 00:36:56,200
so that’s one life metaphor that
could be yours but About another

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00:36:56,200 –> 00:37:01,300
one and the second one is life.
Is a trust.

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00:37:02,900 –> 00:37:08,000
And that’s true too.
We are stewards of what God has

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00:37:08,000 –> 00:37:10,900
given us.
But God is the owner of

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00:37:10,900 –> 00:37:12,600
everything.
It’s in him with that we live

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00:37:12,600 –> 00:37:16,600
and move and have our being
Psalm 24, says the Earth is the

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00:37:16,600 –> 00:37:21,000
Lord’s and everything in it.
The world and all who live by

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00:37:21,000 –> 00:37:25,300
it.
We never really own anything in

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00:37:25,300 –> 00:37:26,800
our brief.
Stay on Earth.

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00:37:28,200 –> 00:37:35,100
God loans, the Earth to us to
live in for a little while and

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00:37:35,100 –> 00:37:37,200
it’s God’s Property.
He was his before.

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00:37:37,200 –> 00:37:41,800
We were born and it will be his
when we were long gone when God

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00:37:41,800 –> 00:37:44,000
created Adam and Eve, he
entrusted the care of his

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00:37:44,000 –> 00:37:47,300
creation to them, he pointing
those Trustees of his property.

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00:37:47,700 –> 00:37:49,800
The Garden of Eden did not
belong to Adam and Eve.

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00:37:50,100 –> 00:37:52,900
They were put there to, to be in
charge of it and to keep it.

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00:37:53,600 –> 00:37:56,400
The Lord God took the man and
the woman and put them in the

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00:37:56,400 –> 00:37:58,800
Garden of Eden, to work it.
And Care for it.

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00:37:59,700 –> 00:38:01,400
Now, the point is, I’ve talked
about Pride.

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00:38:01,400 –> 00:38:03,200
Well, you can’t be puffed up
about something.

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00:38:03,200 –> 00:38:06,300
Someone just given you.
And so we read in First

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00:38:06,300 –> 00:38:08,800
Corinthians, the reading of what
we had is already section.

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00:38:09,200 –> 00:38:11,500
Who makes you different from
anyone else.

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00:38:11,500 –> 00:38:14,300
What do you have that?
You did not receive if you did

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00:38:14,300 –> 00:38:16,100
receive it.
Why do you boast is though?

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00:38:16,100 –> 00:38:21,500
You did not You see, you can’t
be proud of your abilities.

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00:38:22,600 –> 00:38:26,900
A person who can sing can give
praise and glory to God, there

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00:38:26,900 –> 00:38:31,600
is a lot of music in me.
I know this to be a fact because

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00:38:31,600 –> 00:38:38,300
none of us ever got now.
But I sit at the feet of people

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00:38:38,300 –> 00:38:42,400
who are able to create music
with this on the piano or violin

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00:38:42,400 –> 00:38:45,100
or voice.
And that’s not me.

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00:38:48,400 –> 00:38:50,400
I’m not proud of that night
here, you know?

592
00:38:50,400 –> 00:38:54,400
I’m but it’s just a fact.
So if you’ve got it then use it

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00:38:54,400 –> 00:38:57,100
to the good if you don’t have
it, well then find something you

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00:38:57,100 –> 00:38:58,400
can do.
Now, what?

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00:38:58,400 –> 00:39:01,400
I’ll share a little story with
you that happened in a collision

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00:39:03,100 –> 00:39:05,400
You have visiting speakers.
I’m comes to come to your

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00:39:05,400 –> 00:39:10,900
pleasure and this Ecclesia had a
visiting speaker, and he was

598
00:39:10,900 –> 00:39:15,600
giving a talk along these lines.
Now, one of the leading members

599
00:39:15,600 –> 00:39:19,500
of this Ecclesia was a fairly
well-to-do farmer.

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00:39:20,100 –> 00:39:24,600
He had a beautiful spread, his
barns were an apple pie order.

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00:39:24,600 –> 00:39:27,300
I mean, they were painted red,
and they look good.

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00:39:27,600 –> 00:39:29,600
And his cattle would jump,
well-fed.

603
00:39:29,600 –> 00:39:31,900
And these crops were growing,
well, he kept him.

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00:39:32,100 –> 00:39:35,200
She’s in rehab.
And this christadelphians

605
00:39:35,200 –> 00:39:39,600
brother comes to his meeting,
and he’s explaining that nothing

606
00:39:39,600 –> 00:39:43,100
that you have was really yours.
It’s just being lent to you by

607
00:39:43,100 –> 00:39:47,500
God, just for you to use.
This didn’t sit too well with

608
00:39:47,500 –> 00:39:50,900
this christadelphians besides
that, he was going to have him

609
00:39:50,900 –> 00:39:55,100
for dinner, that night that day.
So, after the meeting was over,

610
00:39:55,100 –> 00:39:59,000
he takes him back to his farm
and his wife serves, this

611
00:39:59,000 –> 00:40:03,500
visiting speaker, a beautiful
home cook Cooked Farm meal.

612
00:40:03,500 –> 00:40:05,100
That was really good.
You know.

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00:40:05,700 –> 00:40:08,100
And after the dinner was over
the farmer says to the

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00:40:08,100 –> 00:40:10,800
christadelphians and would you
like to have a tour of my

615
00:40:10,800 –> 00:40:12,400
spread?
I’d like to show you around my

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00:40:12,400 –> 00:40:14,800
place.
You know, I’d enjoy that fine.

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00:40:15,200 –> 00:40:17,500
So we took him around and he
said, look at those boy.

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00:40:17,800 –> 00:40:19,700
Look at those can look at those
fields.

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00:40:19,700 –> 00:40:21,300
Look at that Machinery.
He’s a.

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00:40:21,700 –> 00:40:24,300
Who do you think belongs owned
all this stuff?

621
00:40:27,000 –> 00:40:30,700
Christadelphians brother who had
given the talk said, do you mind

622
00:40:30,700 –> 00:40:33,300
asking me that question and
another 100 years?

623
00:40:36,700 –> 00:40:40,600
It won’t be his in.
It’s only been loaned to you.

624
00:40:41,200 –> 00:40:44,200
What are you doing with what God
is letting you use?

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00:40:44,900 –> 00:40:49,700
So when somebody loans, you
something you should take more

626
00:40:49,700 –> 00:40:52,400
care of it.
I know there’s someone loans, me

627
00:40:52,400 –> 00:40:55,800
their car, I sure don’t want to
put a dent in it, you know, I

628
00:40:55,800 –> 00:40:57,700
want to return that car.
I feel terrible.

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00:40:57,700 –> 00:41:06,600
If I borrowed a car and then,
you know, messed it up. so, This

630
00:41:06,600 –> 00:41:10,800
is the right attitude when
someone’s been loaned to you you

631
00:41:10,800 –> 00:41:16,200
then take care of it and if you
can just get the attitude that

632
00:41:16,200 –> 00:41:18,900
everything you have has been
loaned to you by God and it

633
00:41:18,900 –> 00:41:20,900
doesn’t really isn’t really
yours.

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00:41:22,000 –> 00:41:23,800
You will have a different
attitude than it.

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00:41:23,900 –> 00:41:27,200
This is my car.
This is my bar, this is my farm

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00:41:27,200 –> 00:41:33,300
is whatever it is when Elijah
was helping the prophets.

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00:41:33,300 –> 00:41:36,000
Build a larger meeting room.
One of them was cutting down a

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00:41:36,008 –> 00:41:39,800
tree in the ax, head fell into
the water and you do my Lord he

639
00:41:39,800 –> 00:41:44,000
said it was borrowed.
That was a right attitude.

640
00:41:44,100 –> 00:41:47,000
He had borrowed somebody else’s
acts and now he dropped it in

641
00:41:47,000 –> 00:41:50,300
the water.
Well, you see you should care

642
00:41:50,400 –> 00:41:55,700
about other people’s things that
you’ve borrowed and so Think

643
00:41:55,700 –> 00:41:59,500
about what you have at your
house that you think is yours.

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00:42:00,200 –> 00:42:03,300
It really isn’t yours?
No, that’s my car.

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00:42:03,300 –> 00:42:08,600
Well, you may be paid for but
God’s letting you have that car

646
00:42:09,300 –> 00:42:13,300
and you want to use it for the
Lord, you make sure your car

647
00:42:13,300 –> 00:42:16,500
goes to the right places, does
it pick up other people who

648
00:42:16,500 –> 00:42:18,400
don’t have cars and get them to
meeting?

649
00:42:20,000 –> 00:42:23,600
How anxious are you?
And using the things God is low

650
00:42:23,600 –> 00:42:26,400
and you too.
Of others.

651
00:42:28,900 –> 00:42:31,300
Do you open your home to other
people?

652
00:42:31,700 –> 00:42:34,300
Invite others to come in and
share a meal?

653
00:42:34,300 –> 00:42:36,300
As the farmer had done little
bit?

654
00:42:36,300 –> 00:42:40,700
Reluctantly, after you’d heard
the exhortation, but who do you

655
00:42:40,700 –> 00:42:43,300
invite to your house and you say
now?

656
00:42:43,300 –> 00:42:47,100
Wait, wait, just a minute.
This is my house.

657
00:42:48,200 –> 00:42:50,500
And that’s my food.
I’m feeling you feel him.

658
00:42:51,700 –> 00:42:55,700
I think it’s my business who I
invite to my house and Jesus is,

659
00:42:55,700 –> 00:43:02,100
no, I made it my business who
you invite to your house That’s

660
00:43:02,100 –> 00:43:06,300
not really your home. guys,
letting you use it for a few

661
00:43:06,300 –> 00:43:09,800
years but it doesn’t really
belong to you even if it’s paid

662
00:43:09,800 –> 00:43:17,300
for Jesus makes Things that are
everyday things in your life.

663
00:43:17,300 –> 00:43:20,500
His personal business.
You know, these verses I’m not

664
00:43:20,500 –> 00:43:24,400
reminding, you of some of you
already know, Jesus said to his

665
00:43:24,400 –> 00:43:27,700
holes when he was invited, when
you give a luncheon or you have

666
00:43:27,700 –> 00:43:31,700
a dinner, do not invite your
friends, your brothers, or

667
00:43:31,700 –> 00:43:36,700
relatives, or your evil rich,
Neighbors, Tell you why.

668
00:43:36,700 –> 00:43:39,200
If you do, they’ll invite you
back and you’ll be repaid.

669
00:43:39,700 –> 00:43:42,000
I’ll tell you who you have at
your house.

670
00:43:42,700 –> 00:43:46,300
When you give a banquet, you
invite the poor, you invite the

671
00:43:46,300 –> 00:43:49,100
crippled, you invite the blame,
invite the blind P.

672
00:43:49,200 –> 00:43:51,900
You ever watch a blind person,
eats kind of messy?

673
00:43:51,900 –> 00:43:54,500
It sometimes gets it all over
the place because they can’t

674
00:43:54,500 –> 00:43:56,600
see, you know, I don’t want to
have him.

675
00:43:56,600 –> 00:43:59,400
He’s, you know, bothers me to
see him read.

676
00:44:01,100 –> 00:44:06,600
Jesus says, forget about
yourself you do what’s right?

677
00:44:07,300 –> 00:44:12,300
And then you will be blessed.
Because those that you invite

678
00:44:12,600 –> 00:44:16,100
the crippled, the lame, the
blind, the poor, they can’t

679
00:44:16,100 –> 00:44:18,300
invite you back.
They don’t have a place to

680
00:44:18,300 –> 00:44:22,900
invite you to.
You will be repaid at the

681
00:44:22,900 –> 00:44:28,800
resurrection of the just So the
Lord Jesus Christ is actually

682
00:44:28,800 –> 00:44:33,100
interested in who you invite to
your house.

683
00:44:35,800 –> 00:44:38,500
Other people in your pleasure
that have never been in your

684
00:44:38,500 –> 00:44:40,900
house.
I mean, there’s some people are

685
00:44:40,900 –> 00:44:43,600
in your house maybe every week
certain time, that’s family.

686
00:44:43,600 –> 00:44:46,000
They pop it in.
All kinds of times you you enjoy

687
00:44:46,000 –> 00:44:48,900
meals with him.
But is there an older sister and

688
00:44:48,900 –> 00:44:53,500
older brother?
Somebody that just has a room,

689
00:44:53,900 –> 00:44:57,100
you invite them to your house.
Well their death, they can’t

690
00:44:57,100 –> 00:44:59,200
hear anything as it.
We have a sister that can’t hear

691
00:44:59,200 –> 00:45:02,100
anything.
And we pick her up on Sunday

692
00:45:02,100 –> 00:45:04,200
morning and take her to meeting
and we take her.

693
00:45:04,300 –> 00:45:08,300
She He never says, thank you,
much just she just just specs.

694
00:45:08,300 –> 00:45:12,500
It doesn’t matter.
If you’re not looking for praise

695
00:45:12,500 –> 00:45:15,400
on this side, the kingdom.
You’re trying to do what’s

696
00:45:15,400 –> 00:45:17,700
right?
Do you put yourself out for

697
00:45:17,700 –> 00:45:22,300
other people?
It’s required that those who

698
00:45:22,300 –> 00:45:24,300
have been given a trust must
prove.

699
00:45:24,300 –> 00:45:27,500
Faithful.
You have been given a trust.

700
00:45:28,400 –> 00:45:30,900
If you have a home, it’s been
loaned to you to use.

701
00:45:30,900 –> 00:45:34,400
If you have a car, it’s been
loaned to you by God, to use

702
00:45:34,500 –> 00:45:38,900
anything you possess.
But are you using these

703
00:45:38,900 –> 00:45:43,500
possessions that you have to
satisfy yourself?

704
00:45:44,100 –> 00:45:47,100
Or are you using them to help
others?

705
00:45:47,100 –> 00:45:53,200
Because God is watching?
He is a test and it is at rest.

706
00:45:54,700 –> 00:46:00,300
The Bible is full of examples of
trust, you know, The Parables

707
00:46:00,300 –> 00:46:04,300
that Jesus told about the pounds
and the tell each Steward was

708
00:46:04,300 –> 00:46:08,600
given five talents 10 talents to
tell us wonder, they wasn’t

709
00:46:08,600 –> 00:46:11,200
theirs.
They were to occupy and increase

710
00:46:11,200 –> 00:46:14,500
it while Jesus was gone.
Now, you have been given a

711
00:46:14,508 –> 00:46:17,100
talent talents.
I’ve had christadelphians.

712
00:46:17,100 –> 00:46:18,900
Mm.
Well, I do you don’t have any

713
00:46:18,900 –> 00:46:22,000
Talent.
There is no such thing as a

714
00:46:22,000 –> 00:46:26,100
no-talent christadelphians.
God did not make a mistake when

715
00:46:26,100 –> 00:46:30,600
he made you you make mistakes
but you are not a mistake.

716
00:46:31,600 –> 00:46:36,500
And there are things you can do
for the Lord question is, are

717
00:46:36,500 –> 00:46:40,100
you doing them?
Are you using your time?

718
00:46:40,600 –> 00:46:44,100
Your possessions to give glory
and honor to God?

719
00:46:44,300 –> 00:46:47,300
Or you say boy that.
I got this Lazy Boy, chair and I

720
00:46:47,308 –> 00:46:49,000
just love to sleep in this
chair, you know.

721
00:46:49,000 –> 00:46:52,900
And are you saying to some more
sister coming over and sitting

722
00:46:52,900 –> 00:46:55,800
in my chair, have you ever gone
to a house?

723
00:46:55,800 –> 00:47:01,000
Where the man of the house, has
his chair and nobody sits in

724
00:47:01,000 –> 00:47:05,000
that?
But that man of the house, I

725
00:47:05,008 –> 00:47:10,900
mean see this is funny because
it’s true.

726
00:47:12,400 –> 00:47:18,100
We ought to be sharing, whatever
we have with anybody that we

727
00:47:18,100 –> 00:47:20,500
wanted.
When I go to somebody’s house, I

728
00:47:20,500 –> 00:47:23,000
kind of wait to see just
because, you know, I do this

729
00:47:23,000 –> 00:47:27,400
when I go to a meeting, you
know, today is different, but I

730
00:47:27,400 –> 00:47:29,500
grew as a guest speaker to
another meeting.

731
00:47:29,700 –> 00:47:35,600
And you know, you you don’t know
where to sit, that’s my seat.

732
00:47:36,800 –> 00:47:39,700
And I get up with, you know,
move backwards.

733
00:47:40,200 –> 00:47:42,100
Oh, Jesus said don’t take the
high esteem but I’m not.

734
00:47:42,100 –> 00:47:48,000
It was even a low C, but you
see, we seem to think we possess

735
00:47:48,000 –> 00:47:50,200
it even a particular seat in the
meeting.

736
00:47:50,500 –> 00:47:55,800
That’s where we sit.
And so I if your guests and you

737
00:47:55,800 –> 00:47:59,000
don’t know it, it’s kind of hold
back and let them have theirs,

738
00:47:59,600 –> 00:48:03,100
but on the other hand, we ought
not be possessive.

739
00:48:03,700 –> 00:48:06,800
Even a seat in the meeting.
Certainly not in our home,

740
00:48:07,400 –> 00:48:12,400
certainly not at our table, so
be sure that you do invite to

741
00:48:12,400 –> 00:48:14,800
take it.
When you get home, take your

742
00:48:14,800 –> 00:48:19,300
keys, your address in this town,
just go down the names and pick

743
00:48:19,300 –> 00:48:23,100
out people.
On your please address list that

744
00:48:23,100 –> 00:48:25,800
you have never invited to a
meal.

745
00:48:28,000 –> 00:48:34,700
And then invite him.
And they will be thrilled and

746
00:48:34,700 –> 00:48:39,300
you will be serving God, you
will be doing what Jesus said,

747
00:48:39,800 –> 00:48:44,000
our Ecclesia got up of us.
We try new things and trying to

748
00:48:44,008 –> 00:48:46,100
get people to think about each
other.

749
00:48:46,600 –> 00:48:50,300
And so we got up a list of the
people that widows and the

750
00:48:50,300 –> 00:48:53,500
people who didn’t have much.
And then we got people who were

751
00:48:53,500 –> 00:48:58,200
hospitable and we assign a
person to a family each month.

752
00:48:58,500 –> 00:49:00,600
So there’s a whole list of
people who were inviting a home.

753
00:49:00,800 –> 00:49:03,600
Your people and some of these
all sisters, you know, I didn’t

754
00:49:03,600 –> 00:49:06,800
find the brother Jo’s house.
I’ve never been in his house and

755
00:49:06,808 –> 00:49:11,000
they were thrilled and brother,
George actually enjoyed her.

756
00:49:11,000 –> 00:49:14,500
You know, I mean, sometimes, we
need a little bit of prompting

757
00:49:14,700 –> 00:49:16,800
to do something, we ought to
just be doing.

758
00:49:16,800 –> 00:49:20,400
So if I have tweaking your
conscience, I don’t apologize.

759
00:49:20,400 –> 00:49:26,300
For is the shoe fits wear it.
But God and Jesus are taking

760
00:49:26,600 –> 00:49:32,100
into account, your personal
actions, even who you have to

761
00:49:32,100 –> 00:49:36,000
your home for food and God is
watching.

762
00:49:37,100 –> 00:49:42,200
And God is watching to see how
you treat, the things he has

763
00:49:42,200 –> 00:49:45,500
loaned to you.
And so in all those Parables,

764
00:49:45,600 –> 00:49:49,300
they time came when they had to
account for whether they had

765
00:49:49,300 –> 00:49:52,800
increased that Talent or they
had squandered her, you know,

766
00:49:52,800 –> 00:49:56,100
the man who There it is Talent.
He was not a thief.

767
00:49:57,000 –> 00:50:00,500
He did not abscond with the
Lord’s money when the Lord came

768
00:50:00,500 –> 00:50:02,600
back he dug it up.
Is so here it is he I know

769
00:50:02,600 –> 00:50:05,500
you’re a hard man, I’m giving
you back just what you gave me.

770
00:50:06,800 –> 00:50:09,800
If you give back to God, just
what he gave you.

771
00:50:12,100 –> 00:50:16,200
The answer was condemnation,
you’ve got to be increasing,

772
00:50:16,200 –> 00:50:21,600
what God gave you and so how are
you using your money?

773
00:50:23,200 –> 00:50:26,800
In the truth.
Are you giving we’re not

774
00:50:26,800 –> 00:50:30,700
commanded to tithe and sow whole
most Personnel.

775
00:50:30,700 –> 00:50:35,700
Viens don’t But you know what?
Happened in the mission field.

776
00:50:36,800 –> 00:50:39,800
If every christadelphians and
your Collegiate, just simply

777
00:50:40,000 –> 00:50:44,300
gave ten percent, as least 90%
for you.

778
00:50:45,300 –> 00:50:49,900
You can’t outgive God.
I don’t think we should tell

779
00:50:49,900 –> 00:50:54,600
anybody else what to do.
Because Paul says, God loves a

780
00:50:54,800 –> 00:50:59,100
cheerful Giver in our Ecclesia.
We do not pass a bag.

781
00:51:00,200 –> 00:51:02,200
We do not have a collection at
all.

782
00:51:03,400 –> 00:51:06,200
We feel, if we have to stick a
bag on your nose for you to put

783
00:51:06,200 –> 00:51:08,800
something in it, then you’re not
putting anything in it.

784
00:51:10,100 –> 00:51:13,500
So we have a box at the back and
you go back there and put your

785
00:51:13,500 –> 00:51:16,300
own stuff in it.
And when we started that, they

786
00:51:16,300 –> 00:51:20,800
said never work will go broke.
We never have.

787
00:51:22,900 –> 00:51:27,800
God loves a cheerful Giver e of
your time of your money of your

788
00:51:27,800 –> 00:51:36,300
home of your car.
So, Jesus said, if you have not

789
00:51:36,300 –> 00:51:40,800
been trustworthy in handling
worldly lap wealth, who’s going

790
00:51:40,800 –> 00:51:46,000
to trust you with true riches,
if you’re using, whatever it is,

791
00:51:46,000 –> 00:51:51,000
you have for your benefit and
not for other people’s benefit,

792
00:51:51,900 –> 00:51:56,400
you’re being selfish instead of
self less.

793
00:51:57,300 –> 00:52:01,400
And so our life on the truth it
is a trust.

794
00:52:02,200 –> 00:52:08,000
And God is trusting you to give
what he’s given you and share it

795
00:52:08,000 –> 00:52:14,500
with others. and so, That’s our
third class.

796
00:52:15,300 –> 00:52:19,000
We’re coming to the end of it
and I hope I haven’t worn you

797
00:52:19,000 –> 00:52:23,500
out this evening.
But everyone who has been given

798
00:52:23,500 –> 00:52:26,600
much.
Much will be demanded.

799
00:52:27,100 –> 00:52:30,200
Everyone who has been entrusted
with much, much more will be

800
00:52:30,200 –> 00:52:33,000
asked.
Life.

801
00:52:34,200 –> 00:52:41,200
Is a test.
Work at passing the test except

802
00:52:41,200 –> 00:52:45,500
the fact that you are being
tested by God and that the

803
00:52:45,500 –> 00:52:50,600
problems you’re having or
allowed not caused always but

804
00:52:50,600 –> 00:52:54,100
that allowed by God and make
sure that you don’t complain

805
00:52:54,100 –> 00:52:59,200
about them and that you do your
best to overcome them.

806
00:53:00,500 –> 00:53:06,300
And then life is a trust.
God has entrusted you with so

807
00:53:06,300 –> 00:53:11,300
much.
How generous are you with what

808
00:53:11,300 –> 00:53:14,000
God has given?
You could you give a little bit

809
00:53:14,000 –> 00:53:18,500
more than you’re giving.
I’m not just talking about money

810
00:53:18,600 –> 00:53:22,100
but it does include money.
About your time.

811
00:53:23,200 –> 00:53:26,400
Well, you know, I work hard,
when I get home from work.

812
00:53:26,400 –> 00:53:29,900
I need my time to rest up.
Well, I know.

813
00:53:29,900 –> 00:53:35,400
I can honor that, but somebody
else is sitting at home alone,

814
00:53:35,400 –> 00:53:41,700
Lee and not hearing from you.
Do you call him?

815
00:53:43,500 –> 00:53:47,500
Do you drop by to see them?
Do you send them occur?

816
00:53:47,500 –> 00:53:48,900
We got a thing going in our
Collision.

817
00:53:48,900 –> 00:53:54,100
Now we started it just a few
weeks ago and we’ve given

818
00:53:54,100 –> 00:53:58,000
everybody in the Ecclesia to
address list and on the first

819
00:53:58,500 –> 00:54:02,300
week you were to contact the
person right below your name.

820
00:54:03,800 –> 00:54:07,500
Some kind of a contact, he
talked to him on the phone, you

821
00:54:07,500 –> 00:54:12,400
sent him a card or a letter, or
you go see them and next week,

822
00:54:12,400 –> 00:54:14,100
you do number two in the next
week.

823
00:54:14,100 –> 00:54:15,400
You do number three in next with
you.

824
00:54:15,400 –> 00:54:18,100
Number four.
And we’re up to now about number

825
00:54:18,100 –> 00:54:23,100
38, and we were mining Arc, Asia
every month.

826
00:54:23,400 –> 00:54:26,000
Have you made your every week?
Are you making your car?

827
00:54:27,200 –> 00:54:30,700
It’s, it’s such a simple thing.
Some people you do contact, but

828
00:54:30,700 –> 00:54:32,000
there are people in your
meeting.

829
00:54:32,400 –> 00:54:34,200
We have people that don’t Very
often.

830
00:54:36,000 –> 00:54:39,200
You remember them?
Do you send them a card?

831
00:54:39,400 –> 00:54:43,700
Their mother missed.
See, we are our Brother’s Keeper

832
00:54:44,100 –> 00:54:49,300
life is at rest and God has
trusting you to care about your

833
00:54:49,300 –> 00:54:52,700
fellow brothers and sisters and
doing nothing.

834
00:54:54,700 –> 00:54:59,900
Can never be right.
So, what is your life metaphor

835
00:55:00,800 –> 00:55:02,800
and are you doing your best to
fulfill it?

836
00:55:04,500 –> 00:55:09,300
Life is a test.
And life is a trust.

837
00:55:10,400 –> 00:55:15,300
And God is testing you, and
trusting you and brother and

838
00:55:15,300 –> 00:55:18,400
sisters.
Our whole purpose for coming

839
00:55:19,400 –> 00:55:23,700
from California here, which is
just a stir up your pure Minds

840
00:55:23,700 –> 00:55:25,700
by waiver members to talk about
things.

841
00:55:25,700 –> 00:55:28,900
You already knew, but might not
have been doing as well.

842
00:55:28,900 –> 00:55:33,100
As you could, the biggest room
you have in your house.

843
00:55:34,700 –> 00:55:40,300
Is the room for improvement.
You can all do better than

844
00:55:40,300 –> 00:55:44,000
you’re doing and that includes
me because when I point my

845
00:55:44,000 –> 00:55:45,600
finger at you three pointing at
me.

846
00:55:45,900 –> 00:55:48,400
So these are the kind of things
I need to remember.

847
00:55:48,700 –> 00:55:51,200
So Paul says, I beseech you, I
plead with you.

848
00:55:52,200 –> 00:55:57,200
Present your body a Living
Sacrifice, holy and acceptable.

849
00:55:57,200 –> 00:56:02,500
God, don’t be conformed to this
world but be transformed by the

850
00:56:02,508 –> 00:56:06,400
renewing of your mind.
That you may prove what is that

851
00:56:06,400 –> 00:56:11,000
good and acceptable and perfect
will of God.