Bob Lloyd – Class 5: Service is Not an Option

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So we arrived at our final and
fifth study together on the

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general theme of the way of
life, which has been very

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uplifting.
I’m sure you agree.

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Our fifth study is entitled,
service is not an option.

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And we thank your brother Bob
for delivering that now.

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Well, good afternoon, my beloved
brothers and sisters, young

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people and Friends.
After a meal is easy to go to

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sleep, is it?
I didn’t think you’d go so

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quickly, I think you’re feeling
like a sister that I met in New

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Jersey about 20 or 30 years ago,
I was invited to New Jersey for

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us study weekend like this,
except it was a heavier schedule

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than this.
I spoke Friday night, and then I

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spoke five times on Saturday and
three times on Sunday.

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And I arrived on the Friday and
we went to the hall and they had

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a basement and he served a
supper in the basement and I

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just gotten my food and I was
looking for a place to sit down

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to eat and its sister companies.
Are you brother Lloyd?

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And we never seen each other
before.

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I said yes she said I’m sick and
tired of listening to you.

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So I think you would agree with
her now and then she starts

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Laughing.
Now what had happened is that

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she lived in Florida and the
study weekend was in New Jersey

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and she was driving up for it
that’s like driving maybe from

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Melbourne to Brisbane and it’s
up the east coast of From The

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Bottom Of America up towards the
top and her brother in the

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flesh.
And brother, and Truth to had

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given her a bunch of used
cassettes.

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And we didn’t have these discs
and stuff, but he had given her

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a Stack of my tapes, I didn’t
never met the sister and she

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listened to me.
She said all the way from

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Florida to New Jersey, but time
she got there.

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She was sick and tired of
listening to me.

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So I think you can sympathize
and relate to Earth because

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you’ve been listening to me all
weekend.

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I want to thank you for your
patience and enduring.

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They talk about suffering the
word of exhortation.

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I know sometimes it is
suffering.

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Well, this is our last time
together.

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For this for this weekend, be
seeing some of you again,

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because I’ll be in town for
another week for other things.

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But for most of us, and a lot of
you have to do some traveling

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today.
Could have bear brand is not

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around the corner.
So the others of you going,

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quite great distances, perhaps
this afternoon.

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So this is our last subject.
It will consider on the way of

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life.
And there are a lot of people

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and some of them are
christadelphians.

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And they are not winners.
They are winners wwhen, ners.

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And this is how it goes, if
they’re young person, they say,

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when I graduate, then I’ll do
something for the Lord.

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And then I said, well, when,
when I get a job, I’ll begin to

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do something for the lord.
Well when I get a car, when I

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get a car that will run When I
get married.

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When we have children. when the
children are a little older,

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when the children are grown a
when I retire, And they’ve gone

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through their whole life, do not
going to do great things for the

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Lord.
When not, now, when something

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happens and what do those old
people say?

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After they retired, remember the
good old days when and some

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people never live in the moment,
they’re always going to do

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something.
When something happens, the only

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moment you have to live is now
right now.

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You can’t live tomorrow and you
can Live yesterday and so let’s

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stop being winners and begin
being doers.

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And so we’re going to talk about
doing and service is not an

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option and you have got to get
to work.

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Rather than sisters.
Young people.

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The time has now come for our
classes to go to be over, and

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we’ve got to get to work.
And what does that mean?

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That means you’ve got to find a
work to do and you need to do

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it.
So, what talents do you have

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now?
There’s many answers to that

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question.
As there are people, God has

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never made another this kind of
blows me away.

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But God has never made of
another person ever.

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Not since Adam and Eve.
So right now just like you now

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we didn’t know about DNA when I
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But we also knew then it.
No two people are alike but now

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there’s no two.
Fingerprints are like, there’s

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no to DNA is alike.
You are unique.

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You are special.
And you are God called.

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And so you have a talent or
talents and you’ve got to use

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them for him.
It’s this is not an option.

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This is not a choice.
Do you know that?

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God did not give Moses the 10
suggestions?

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Those were commands and we are
commanded to go out and work for

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the Lord and don’t say it.
Well, I can’t do nothing.

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There’s no such thing as a
no-talent christadelphians,

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God’s called you and it means
you’ve got something to do and

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you’ve got to find it and start
doing it.

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And so, we just read in Romans
chapter 12.

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In an NIV, it says verse 6, we
have different gifts.

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According to the grace given us.
If a man’s gift is prophesying

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that.
Use it in proportion to his

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faith.
If it is serving, let him serve.

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If it is teaching.
They didn’t teach if it’s

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encouraging.
Let him encourage if it’s

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contributing to the needs of
others, let him give generously.

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If his leadership.
Let him govern different

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diligently.
If it’s showing Mercy, let him

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do it.
Cheerfully So you have a work to

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do and this afternoon, we’re
going to try to figure out what

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it is and when you go out those
doors, you’re going to resolve.

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I hope God willing you’re going
to get busy doing it.

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Whatever it is.
You decided to do for God.

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Now there’s an old saying which
has got a new modern twist and

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you’ve all heard the old saying
many times I’m going to give you

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the new modern twist and this is
the way the new saying goes

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anything worth doing.
Is worth doing poorly until you

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can learn to do it better.
Now, that’s not the saying that

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you’ve heard all your life but
this is the one we’re going to

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talk about this afternoon for
are too many people hold back

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doing nothing because they want
to do it perfect when they do it

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and since they will never do it
perfect.

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Hey, have a good excuse for not
doing it at all.

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Now just imagine if you wanted
to learn to swim and you had

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never swam and you went to a
swimming pool or the ocean and

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you hired a swimming instructor.
Assume it’s a swimming pool

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because then you can stand on
the edge and jump in.

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And you painted the teacher,
you’ve paid the money.

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And yeah, he’s going to teach
you to swim music.

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I’m not going to get in that
water until I swim perfectly.

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You ain’t never gonna learn to
swim.

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You have to jump in the water.
You have to thrash around a

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little bit.
You have to learn how to put

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your head under and eventually
you learn to swim poorly.

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And if you keep practicing
slimming poorly eventually you

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will swim expertly but you start
off doing it poorly.

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So don’t stop.
Don’t give yourself the excuse

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of of not starting to do
something because well I can’t

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do that.
Well you can always find

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somebody that can do whatever
you could do better than you can

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do it.
None of my talk was someone

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mentioned yesterday.
Remember my D and for bees and

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it fits doing, your best is
better than being the best.

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No matter what you’re asked to
do for the Lord.

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There’s Body can do it better
than you.

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And so we’ll get them to do
instead of me, that’s a cop-out.

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If you’re asked to do something,
do it?

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Well somebody else can do it
better.

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I’m not arguing that we’ve had
many people playing the piano

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this week.
They all did their very best

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doing.
Your best is better than being

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the best.
Not one of the pianos sisters.

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Our brothers that played this
weekend could play like maybe

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Liberace, can you don’t pay very
good at all now, he’s dead.

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But but there are professional
photographer.

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A bit pianist that can play
better than anyone in this room

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can play.
I mean, they are experts.

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So don’t you try it?
You wait two years good as they

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are.
You ain’t never going to do it.

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So if you’re asked to do
something you say, yes, and you

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practice and you do it the best
you can do and doing your best

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is better than being the best.
You’ll never be the best there

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is, but God doesn’t ask you,
you’re not in competition with

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anybody in the world.
God is only asking you to do

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your best for him.
And so Peter has something to

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say on this and first, Peter 4
verse 10, each one should use

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whatever gift.
He has received to serve others

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Faithfully administering God’s
grace in all its various forms.

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If anyone speaks, he should do
it as one Speaking, the very

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words of God, if anyone serves
you should do it with the

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strength, God provides.
So that in all things, God may

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be praised through.
Jesus Christ.

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So as we journey through our
life on the way of life towards

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the kingdom, you have to find
something to do and do it and

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the fact that you don’t do it
well is no excuse not to do it,

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do it poorly until you get
better at it.

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So what are you going to do?
That’s what we’re going to talk

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about this afternoon you and I
have got to find something to do

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and then we have to get in the
building jump in the water so to

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speak.
And get busy doing it so

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experiment, a little bit, ask
yourself questions.

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What can I do?
Look, look for a need and try to

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fill it all around us.
There are others who need our

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help.
And we’ll all we have to do is

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we talked this morning about a
cup of cold water.

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So brother, Simon and I are
going to act out a little thing

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here about a little story, which
teaches a lesson.

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How you better explain this
before we get him up to do it?

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Because I’ve done this before
but I did.

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I used to do it years ago but
before I had what’s called

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neuropathy Neuropathy is when
you can’t feel your feet.

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And first my feet went dead and
then my legs.

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And then my rear, and now my
right hand.

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So I can’t even feel them on.
You can’t hurt my feelings.

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I don’t have anymore but when I
go to the hierapolis in your

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neurologist, he always make me
take off my shoes and you walk

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like this and I cannot do it.
I absolutely cannot do that.

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And if I’ve ever pulled over by
a police officer and given the

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sobriety I’ll flunk the sobriety
test cold sober because I cannot

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do that.
So Simon did we realize he’s got

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a bigger job on his hand.
This afternoon then I used to

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have, but the story we’re going
to act out, is this we’re all a

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bunch of just imagine, you’re
all a bunch of young kids, see

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you just go back a few years for
this money and we’re out playing

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in a field and we want to cross
at abandoned railroad track in

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this field, it was a Spur that
went there.

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One time, it’s not being, it’s
all covered with weeds.

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Yes.
And so as kids do all this

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America and we all start walking
the rail.

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But because none of us are
Highway Highwire, experts, we

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would walk a few steps and fall
off, but Simon and I, we are

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smart kids.
I’ll tell you that and we get

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together and we whisper in each
other’s ear.

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And then we announce to all of
you, we can walk the entire

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length of this railroad track,
and not fall off.

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And you being typical young
kids, you say, oh yeah, prove it

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so Simon’s.
Going to get on one real, and

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I’m going to get on the other
and this the it’s imagine his

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railroad tracks here.
See now you’re going to hear and

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I have to really help me.
So we walk the rail together.

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Now, the question is, did I pick
Simon up?

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And I carry him?
No I ain’t too big.

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I can’t carry you.
So, what’s happening?

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We are Reaching Across The Rail
and holding hands together so

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that together, each of us can do
what neither one of us can do

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without the other.
And did we carry each other?

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No, we just held hands.
We just extended her hand to

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help somebody study study them
when they would have fallen and

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I would have fallen flat on my
face again, thank you very much.

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The lesson is worth remembering.
There are some certain things

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that none of us can do alone.
But two can someone says two are

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better than one?
We need to team up.

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Even the Lord Jesus when he sent
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He sent them out by twos.
He instead him out by 112

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directions, he sent them out by
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And so we can help each other
but you have to be conscious of

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the others and you have to be
willing to reach your hand out

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and hold.
There’s in order to steady them

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as they steady week, help the
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Now in Romans chapter 12 verse
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Each of us have just one body
but your body has many members,

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you know these, you heard read
this many time now, in Christ,

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you see, we’re all different not
to what?

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No, no, two of us are alike.
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This is a body of the
christadelphians and it takes

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all of us to make one body.
And Paul says, we have different

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gifts, according to the grace
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If a man’s gift is prophesying,
them used in proportion to his

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faith.
If it’s serving, let him serve

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if it is teaching, let him teach
encouraging.

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Let him encourage.
See there’s all kinds of things

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you can do, but there is
something you can do and we have

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to find it and then we have to
begin to do it.

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This is contributing to Needs of
others.

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Let him give it generously
leadership.

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Let him govern diligently
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Let him do it.
Cheerfully, sometimes we do

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something.
But we spoil it.

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By not being cheerful about.
I got to go see old sister Jones

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and arrest him for.
I hate to go there.

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Well how are you today anyway?
I got to go.

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I’m glad I got to see you.
Sometimes we can leave people

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worse off than we found him.
If we don’t do it cheerfully.

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So if you have something to do
decide that you’re going to do

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it with Vigor, you’re going to
do it cheerfully.

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You’re going to care about
people, and you’re going to

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throw yourself into the work.
Now, I’m blessed to have owned a

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little company.
And I people ask me if I’m

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retired and I see, no, I’m just
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I go to work three days a week,
but I don’t do anything.

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And they think it’s a joke, but
it’s pretty true.

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I have no duties at work.
I have an office but I hardly

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ever sit in it because I have no
nothing to do when I get there,

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except what I do.
We have 32 employees and 10 of

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them are christadelphians.
So, we’re almost a third of our

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company, our christadelphians.
But I go around to each desks

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and talk to the people that work
for me and just encourage them.

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I asked their supervisors each,
we have a number of departments

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and each department has a
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I asked.
How is Jane doing?

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How’s Betty doing?
I was Sandra doing and they tell

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me and then I go to San dresses.
Good.

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The boss just said you’re doing
a fantastic job.

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I don’t want to thank you for
that.

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Really did he?
I don’t know why.

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People don’t tell people when
they because I tell him you tell

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him but they don’t.
So I go and find out how good

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they’re doing and then I go and
tell them what the boss said.

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And there are so thrilled that
some it’s a, that’s one of the

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things.
When 2012 said to do, if it’s

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encouraging and encourage, you
know, it doesn’t cost anything.

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Thing to pass somebody on the
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I mean, they I walk away from
their desks and they feel better

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for it.
In fact, when I’m away on a trip

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like this, I, when I come back,
they may be saying because I’m

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the boss, but they all say,
well, we missed you.

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In fact, sometimes the girls
say, who is this strange man?

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That just walked in because I’m
gone so much as sometimes they

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pretend they don’t know who I
was, but but we have a great

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little company and a wonderful
group of Christian delphine’s,

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work there and Job is just
encouraging them.

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I don’t do any of their work, I
don’t even know how to do.

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I started off this company 53
years ago by myself, just a

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one-person company.
And now we have 32 employees.

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And I am totally worthless in my
own company.

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I have a computer on my desk but
I don’t know how to turn it on.

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And what happens sometimes I go
in there and it’s missing

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because what happens with that
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Sometimes the computer goes down
or we’ll get Bob’s, he doesn’t

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use it anyway.
And so my computer will be gone

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for a few days and then I come
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And what’s back again?
They’ve got another thing.

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So they realize that I have no
Contribution to make except to

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encourage.
But you cannot minimize how

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important that is to people and
so this is the body of Christ

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and you need to be encouraging
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Say think of something nice and
say it call them up and say it

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write him a note and say it send
them an email and say it but you

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should be telling somebody least
one a day.

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Something encouraging.
I heard a nice thing about As

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you now, I just talked to my
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It’s Saturday over there.
So we’re so far ahead of her,

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but I’m going to go back in
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And when I get home, I will be
on the same schedule again shed.

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You’ll excuse me.
But it’s a Saturday there, and I

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got up early to call her,
because she was going to a

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wedding.
We have a big wedding in our

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Hall, this afternoon, and the
people that are getting married,

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are people that I’m very fond of
and I’ve gone to their wedding

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showers and the brides Father
father grandfather was my best

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man in my wedding and so I know
all these people really well and

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actually the groom is related to
me to marriage.

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You know, we could see, I was
getting ready to everybody here

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and I would like to have been
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In fact, I had planned to come
and then I said to the bride and

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groom one Sunny guess what?
I’m on my way to Australia at

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the time of your wedding because
the wedding is Saturday, go

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little Saturdays.
Yes, we’re the head of but it’s

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Saturday over there right now
and the wedding is going on

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right now. but we give them as
much encouragement as we could,

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and I even kiss the bride before
I left, you know, I got a, I got

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a preview but there is something
Is now is lots of things.

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Each of us can do and thing is
we don’t get as busy doing what

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we ought to be doing.
And so that that that that’s

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what this class is all about our
last class and service is not an

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option.
So you’ve got to figure out what

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to do, and then if you do it
poorly, that’s okay.

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Just keep on doing it poorly.
Until you get better at it.

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And if you practice it practice
makes perfect and you will do it

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better.
Paul said to the Galatians, make

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it Explore exploration of Who
You Are.

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Explore yourself and the work
that you have been given.

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And then sink yourself into
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And that’s a modern translation
but it’s a lot of find out what

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you can do and then start doing
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That’s what Paul says.
So we need a little

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self-examination.
This afternoon.

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What do you enjoy doing most,
when do you feel most Fully

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Alive?
What are you doing?

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When you completely lose track
of yourself and lose track of

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time?
Do you like routine or do you

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like variety?
Do we prefer to serve others or

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serve ourselves?
Well, you know the right answer

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that one.
Are we more introverted or

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extroverted Agency on some of
these?

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There’s no right and wrong
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I just got a letter from a
sister in Arctic because I’m

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trying to get them to all to
send a card or a letter or two

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ever remember once a week you
said wonders another member and

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so this sister writes me an
email.

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Well bomb is she says we’re not
all like you and you could tell

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she was glad of that and she
says I’m an ex I’m an introvert,

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she’s I just do not deal with
well with people and I just

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Think it’s crazy.
She used word crazy to send a

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card to somebody and they’ll
know that I did it because they

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don’t my list.
I’m getting cards from people.

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I know I’m on their list, but
I’m so thrilled to see are from

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him, gee, she’s justifying doing
nothing because she’s an

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introvert.
Well, I don’t deny, she’s an

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introvert and that’s not a sin.
I do deny that being an

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introvert means you don’t do
anything.

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It may be hard for her to talk
to people in person, she could

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write a know, she can do
something, and I keep saying to

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these people doing nothing can
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So I’m saying that to you this
afternoon, find out what it is,

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you can do and then begin to do
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Our goal is to stay within the
boundaries of God’s plan for us

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at Paul to the Corinthians, the
word boundaries refers to the

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fact that God, assigns each of
us a field or sphere of

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servants.
If the service is a service

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where best cut out to perform
and we’re to run with patience

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the race that God has set before
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Not everybody had could run the
same race on a track team.

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You have the marathon.
Owners.

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You have the intermediate
Runners on.

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You have the dashes, you have
people do the pole.

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Vault people do the broad jump.
They’re all have different

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talents, but they’re all on the
same team and they’re all

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contributing to the success of
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So let every man learned to
assess property the value of his

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own work.
This is Paul.

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Now, see, I’m this is not my
ideas.

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I am sharing to you inspired
words ideas coming, right?

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From the God’s word.
Let every man learn to assess

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property.
The value of his homework and he

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can then be glad Glad when he is
done, something worth doing,

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without depending on the
approval of others.

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Now, you should never compare
yourself to someone else.

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Reason is nobody else ever been
just like you so you will not be

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like anybody else and so it’s
important that we do not compare

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ours because there’s two
reasons, why not to compare

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yourself to other people.
You can always find somebody and

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you say I could never do what
they do.

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That’s going back to the dean
for bees.

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I could never play the piano
like that and I couldn’t you’re

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right about that and I cannot
sing like some of you can sing

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and I admired that you when I
know this.

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That I cannot do but just
something I can do.

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But so, but if you compare
yourself to someone else, you’ll

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say, well, I could never do as
well as they do.

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So, therefore, I won’t accept
the position.

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The all the ones that play the
piano today could have said

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there is somebody in this world
plays the piano better than me,

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get them.
And then he didn’t mean any

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christadelphians, your been
asked to play it, get the hymns

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and my wife plays, the organ for
our closure.

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If I tell you that you won’t
tell on me, will you?

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She’s not the greatest
orientation player in the world.

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She works very hard at it.
She gets very nervous.

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She asks the presiding brother a
week in advance for the hims if

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you want to really throw my
wife, just come to our meeting

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and exhort on a sunny.
She’s going to play the organ

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and tell the presiding brother
when you get up there.

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Oh, I’d like to change the
hymns.

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You throw my wife in a real
tizzy, but she does the best she

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can.
With what she has right, where

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she is.
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So, she practices those hymns
and then she plays them and

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00:25:32,700 –> 00:25:34,300
afterwards.
She’ll say, oh, I made a

432
00:25:34,300 –> 00:25:35,700
mistake.
Did you hear that mistake?

433
00:25:35,700 –> 00:25:37,200
I made and I said, no, I didn’t
hear it.

434
00:25:37,300 –> 00:25:40,000
It’s not that musically.
No, I said you did fine.

435
00:25:40,200 –> 00:25:43,600
Oh no, I meant well, Life Will
Go On the Grill.

436
00:25:43,600 –> 00:25:46,200
Keep spinning around.
Even if he did make a mistake,

437
00:25:46,400 –> 00:25:50,000
it’s okay to make mistakes and
not that you plan on making him,

438
00:25:50,200 –> 00:25:52,000
but it’s better to do something
and make it.

439
00:25:52,100 –> 00:25:55,200
Mistake than to do nothing.
And the people who do nothing

440
00:25:55,200 –> 00:25:56,300
they want, I never made a
mistake.

441
00:25:56,300 –> 00:25:58,100
Well, that’s right because I
never did and the biggest

442
00:25:58,100 –> 00:26:00,600
mistake you can make is a
mistake of not doing anything.

443
00:26:01,000 –> 00:26:02,700
So find something to do and
start doing it.

444
00:26:02,700 –> 00:26:05,400
If you don’t do it right?
We didn’t do it poorly and you

445
00:26:05,408 –> 00:26:07,400
keep on doing it poorly.
Can you get better at it?

446
00:26:08,400 –> 00:26:12,400
So Paul says, we do not dare to
classify or compare ourselves

447
00:26:12,700 –> 00:26:16,000
with some who commend
themselves, when they measure

448
00:26:16,000 –> 00:26:18,200
themselves by themselves and
comparing themselves among

449
00:26:18,200 –> 00:26:19,400
themselves.
They are not why.

450
00:26:19,500 –> 00:26:21,800
So two reasons not to compare
yourself.

451
00:26:21,800 –> 00:26:23,700
Number one, you can find
somebody to do better than you.

452
00:26:24,000 –> 00:26:26,100
So therefore, you won’t try
because they do better.

453
00:26:26,400 –> 00:26:28,600
And then the other reason you
shouldn’t compare yourself and

454
00:26:30,000 –> 00:26:33,300
do a lot better, hire him.
And then you get puffed, up

455
00:26:33,300 –> 00:26:35,000
home.
I don’t make too many mistakes

456
00:26:35,000 –> 00:26:38,100
that she made.
And both of those attitudes are

457
00:26:38,100 –> 00:26:41,500
wrong.
You see if we’re all doing the

458
00:26:41,500 –> 00:26:43,700
best we can do.
Even though we’re doing it

459
00:26:43,700 –> 00:26:46,900
poorly, we could work at trying
to get better.

460
00:26:46,900 –> 00:26:51,400
I don’t, I’m not saying that
doing a poor job is is the best

461
00:26:51,800 –> 00:26:55,100
thing to do but I’m saying it’s
better to do a poor job that do

462
00:26:55,100 –> 00:26:59,600
do no job and so whatever it is
you’re asked to do, try it.

463
00:26:59,600 –> 00:27:04,100
Do it, practice it.
If you’re asked to exhort him

464
00:27:05,200 –> 00:27:09,400
over in our way, when we have a
new person baptized in our

465
00:27:09,400 –> 00:27:14,500
Ecclesia, they are assigned a
mentor for one year and every

466
00:27:14,500 –> 00:27:18,600
week for an entire year, the
mentor meets with the newly

467
00:27:18,600 –> 00:27:22,100
baptized person.
They read a book together there,

468
00:27:22,100 –> 00:27:23,900
pick a book of the Bible and
they both were reading, them

469
00:27:23,900 –> 00:27:27,100
discuss chapters.
I was a mentor of not too long

470
00:27:27,100 –> 00:27:33,000
ago with a young brother who
Very shy and brother and I

471
00:27:33,000 –> 00:27:36,000
figured he needed to be
encouraged to learn how to

472
00:27:36,000 –> 00:27:40,500
exhort.
So every week I would give him a

473
00:27:40,500 –> 00:27:45,100
little subject and I said this
week prepare me a five-minute

474
00:27:45,100 –> 00:27:49,200
exhortation on love joy.
Peace.

475
00:27:49,200 –> 00:27:53,900
Long-suffering Whatever and that
week, he would work on that

476
00:27:53,900 –> 00:27:55,400
talk.
And the next week, when we got

477
00:27:55,400 –> 00:27:58,600
together, he would give me his
five-minute exhortation on it.

478
00:27:59,700 –> 00:28:03,500
I was trying to break the ice
for him to get into so when he

479
00:28:03,500 –> 00:28:08,400
gave his first exhortation, I
praised him for it because he’d

480
00:28:08,400 –> 00:28:11,900
he’d made a big effort, he was
doing it poorly, but he was

481
00:28:11,908 –> 00:28:13,300
doing the best he could at the
time.

482
00:28:13,300 –> 00:28:17,300
He and I told him how much I
appreciated his efforts.

483
00:28:17,600 –> 00:28:19,800
He’s well, you’ve heard all that
before, because things have

484
00:28:20,200 –> 00:28:25,000
little things, I practiced on
you, but the point is, you need

485
00:28:25,000 –> 00:28:27,700
to have this caring attitude for
each other and encourage each

486
00:28:27,700 –> 00:28:29,300
other in the work.
I don’t know.

487
00:28:29,500 –> 00:28:33,900
You have that roll over here or
not, but you know, we made the

488
00:28:33,900 –> 00:28:38,300
mistake in the early days of
work, going to someone’s home

489
00:28:38,300 –> 00:28:40,200
every week to help them get Bad
Touch.

490
00:28:40,400 –> 00:28:42,800
I always used to go to a home of
a man and a woman.

491
00:28:43,300 –> 00:28:45,000
They’re both dead now.
Long dead.

492
00:28:45,300 –> 00:28:47,600
They were old enough to be my
parents, and I was just a young

493
00:28:47,700 –> 00:28:50,700
young fellow with three little
children, but every week, I went

494
00:28:50,700 –> 00:28:55,900
to their house and talked about
first principles for the

495
00:28:55,900 –> 00:29:00,400
preparing them for baptism.
And finally, they were not quick

496
00:29:00,400 –> 00:29:03,700
learners.
They were very nice people but

497
00:29:03,700 –> 00:29:05,900
they were definitely not quick
Learners.

498
00:29:06,800 –> 00:29:11,900
And after two years they were
ready to be baptized and we

499
00:29:11,900 –> 00:29:18,900
baptize them and I said And the
next week I didn’t go and I

500
00:29:18,900 –> 00:29:24,900
stopped going and they come in
this is Bob we miss your visits.

501
00:29:25,500 –> 00:29:27,900
Oh well, you’re baptized now.
Yeah.

502
00:29:28,400 –> 00:29:32,200
Mission accomplished, you know,
get on with it and I didn’t say

503
00:29:32,200 –> 00:29:39,200
that but but you see we learn
from most kind of mistakes that

504
00:29:39,200 –> 00:29:42,800
a person wants her baptized
they’re not they’re still a babe

505
00:29:42,800 –> 00:29:45,100
in the truth.
What happens when you have a

506
00:29:45,100 –> 00:29:46,800
baby?
Born in your household.

507
00:29:47,200 –> 00:29:48,900
You want how often do you feed
it?

508
00:29:49,300 –> 00:29:52,900
Every 4 hours night and day, 4
o’clock, feeding.

509
00:29:53,300 –> 00:29:56,000
I mean, father and mother want
to sleep or that babies.

510
00:29:56,000 –> 00:29:58,500
Crying 4:00 in the morning.
Go back to sleep.

511
00:29:59,300 –> 00:30:04,000
No, it’s you got to get up and
feed that baby because it needs

512
00:30:04,000 –> 00:30:09,200
nourishment often because it’s a
baby and when we baptize

513
00:30:09,200 –> 00:30:14,000
somebody, they are a babe in
Christ and they need to be fed

514
00:30:14,300 –> 00:30:19,500
maybe not a 4:00 In the morning,
but don’t abandon your newly.

515
00:30:19,500 –> 00:30:21,300
Baptized people say, well now
you’re baptized.

516
00:30:21,300 –> 00:30:24,600
I’ll go on to somebody else.
That’s all right, to go onto

517
00:30:24,600 –> 00:30:28,000
somebody else, but don’t neglect
the new ones in your Ecclesia

518
00:30:28,000 –> 00:30:32,200
that they, they need you, and
they need your for a very long

519
00:30:32,200 –> 00:30:36,200
time.
So, we don’t compare ourselves

520
00:30:36,200 –> 00:30:45,200
to each other. and, We try to
help those who need a little

521
00:30:45,200 –> 00:30:50,200
word of encouragement.
Now whenever you do anything,

522
00:30:50,200 –> 00:30:52,400
there’s always going to be
somebody that’s going to

523
00:30:52,400 –> 00:30:54,900
criticize.
You is lots of people who sit

524
00:30:54,900 –> 00:30:57,000
back.
They don’t do anything but they

525
00:30:57,000 –> 00:30:59,200
sure criticize what everybody
else is doing.

526
00:31:00,000 –> 00:31:02,000
So if John Bunyan’s, that
something was interesting.

527
00:31:02,000 –> 00:31:06,200
He says, if my life is
fruitless, it does not matter

528
00:31:07,000 –> 00:31:11,700
who praises me and if my life is
fruitful, it does not matter who

529
00:31:11,800 –> 00:31:16,000
criticizes me.
So you sort of sometimes in the

530
00:31:16,000 –> 00:31:19,800
christadelphians body have to
develop what I call a thick

531
00:31:19,800 –> 00:31:23,900
skin.
You have to do the best you can.

532
00:31:24,500 –> 00:31:27,700
And if somebody comes up and
computer, I mean if you want to

533
00:31:27,700 –> 00:31:30,500
know how to raise kids, just as
somebody who doesn’t have any,

534
00:31:32,000 –> 00:31:34,600
you know, they can always tell
people who have kids how to do

535
00:31:34,600 –> 00:31:38,300
it till they get one their own
and wow, it’s a different story.

536
00:31:38,300 –> 00:31:42,000
Is he we all seem to know how to
do things we’ve never done

537
00:31:42,000 –> 00:31:45,000
before.
Over our, we have a saying, hire

538
00:31:45,000 –> 00:31:48,600
a teenager while they’re still a
teenager know everything.

539
00:31:51,000 –> 00:31:54,600
Because overall way, we have
this feeling, I’m sure it’s not

540
00:31:54,600 –> 00:31:58,900
true that people in Australia,
but they like that young cat

541
00:31:58,900 –> 00:32:02,100
named the story this morning,
went to cat college, and thought

542
00:32:02,100 –> 00:32:06,300
they knew everything.
And as you get older, you can’t

543
00:32:06,300 –> 00:32:09,900
you keep realizing how little
you do know, Mark Twain ran away

544
00:32:09,900 –> 00:32:13,000
from home when he was about 15
or 16?

545
00:32:13,000 –> 00:32:15,900
He thought his daddy was the
stupidest guy you’d ever met.

546
00:32:17,300 –> 00:32:20,500
He came back at 25 and he
couldn’t realize couldn’t get

547
00:32:20,500 –> 00:32:22,700
over how much his father had
learned in that short time.

548
00:32:25,700 –> 00:32:29,100
Then what happened is Mark,
Twain had grown up in the

549
00:32:29,100 –> 00:32:32,400
meantime and so that remember
that first of all card you got,

550
00:32:32,400 –> 00:32:35,300
please be patient with me.
God is not finished with me yet.

551
00:32:35,700 –> 00:32:40,000
We need to use those all the
time because young people need

552
00:32:40,000 –> 00:32:42,400
to ask older people be patient
with me.

553
00:32:42,400 –> 00:32:44,600
I’m God’s not finished with me
yet.

554
00:32:45,200 –> 00:32:47,800
And the, you know, people need
to say to young people, you

555
00:32:47,800 –> 00:32:50,900
know, be patient with me and I
don’t get around like I used to

556
00:32:50,900 –> 00:32:54,500
but God’s not finished with me
yet because you see, you’re all

557
00:32:54,500 –> 00:32:56,600
are either.
Dean and growing.

558
00:32:57,700 –> 00:33:03,200
Or you’re ripe and rotting, I
mean what fruit finally gets

559
00:33:03,600 –> 00:33:08,300
ripe begins to rot and if you
just sit back and say, well I’ve

560
00:33:08,300 –> 00:33:10,500
been baptized now, I don’t have
to do anything.

561
00:33:10,900 –> 00:33:16,300
You begin to rot.
So no matter how old you are, we

562
00:33:16,300 –> 00:33:19,600
all need to keep this attitude
that we’re green and we’re

563
00:33:19,600 –> 00:33:21,800
growing.
And God is not finished with us

564
00:33:21,800 –> 00:33:27,700
yet and we’re trying to do
better. so Jesus told us stories

565
00:33:27,700 –> 00:33:32,000
along these lines, he talked
about giving people talents He

566
00:33:32,008 –> 00:33:36,000
gave 1/10 Oz, 1511.
Nobody got the same amount of

567
00:33:36,008 –> 00:33:37,500
times.
They were all different, so you

568
00:33:37,500 –> 00:33:39,800
see, that’s why you don’t
compare yourself to somebody

569
00:33:39,800 –> 00:33:42,200
else.
Either their talent is not the

570
00:33:42,200 –> 00:33:46,900
same as yours and and what Simon
could have done without my help

571
00:33:46,900 –> 00:33:49,900
very much was walk that rail.
I could not have possibly done

572
00:33:49,900 –> 00:33:54,800
it without his help but you see
I didn’t help him and maybe I,

573
00:33:55,700 –> 00:33:57,400
he helped me.
I maybe I helped them a little

574
00:33:57,400 –> 00:34:01,600
bit but you see we need to look
around the room.

575
00:34:02,000 –> 00:34:06,300
That people who need our help
and they can’t walk a rail,

576
00:34:07,100 –> 00:34:10,100
like, you can.
But you can sit down with him

577
00:34:10,100 –> 00:34:12,800
and they can, you can tell them
a problem, you’re having at

578
00:34:12,800 –> 00:34:15,900
school.
And if they can remember back

579
00:34:15,900 –> 00:34:19,699
that far, he might be able to
give you some advice on how to

580
00:34:19,699 –> 00:34:22,500
cope with problems that you’re
having in school.

581
00:34:22,600 –> 00:34:25,400
We do people think the young
people just don’t realize how

582
00:34:25,400 –> 00:34:29,800
easy they have it and the old
young people don’t realize how

583
00:34:29,800 –> 00:34:31,800
lucky off the are.
But if you were a young Young

584
00:34:31,800 –> 00:34:33,699
person.
You wouldn’t think it was so

585
00:34:33,699 –> 00:34:36,100
easy.
You got tons of homework.

586
00:34:36,100 –> 00:34:37,800
You got this.
That you have peer pressure.

587
00:34:37,800 –> 00:34:43,199
You got problem.
See, so each age Each stage of

588
00:34:43,199 –> 00:34:48,400
our life is different.
Brother and sisters with little

589
00:34:48,400 –> 00:34:52,300
children, have a different kind
of life in brothers and sisters

590
00:34:52,300 –> 00:34:57,100
with teenagers.
And those who teenagers are now

591
00:34:57,100 –> 00:35:00,300
grown and are married and they
have different different

592
00:35:00,300 –> 00:35:05,600
problems again.
What I want you to do is this

593
00:35:05,600 –> 00:35:10,700
afternoon, think, for yourself,
what you can do that?

594
00:35:10,700 –> 00:35:16,000
You haven’t been doing for God.
I hope you can think of

595
00:35:16,000 –> 00:35:18,800
something, if you can’t.
It’s going to tell you right

596
00:35:18,800 –> 00:35:19,900
there.
You got a problem.

597
00:35:20,400 –> 00:35:23,500
If you can’t think of something
you could be doing that, you’re

598
00:35:23,500 –> 00:35:26,900
not doing.
Then you thinking, right?

599
00:35:27,600 –> 00:35:29,500
So we ought to get a sheet of
paper out.

600
00:35:29,500 –> 00:35:31,900
We’re not asking you to do this
now, but when you get home and

601
00:35:31,900 –> 00:35:34,400
what can I do for?
God service is not, what?

602
00:35:34,400 –> 00:35:39,000
How can I serve and figure out
what you can do and then start

603
00:35:39,000 –> 00:35:42,800
doing it and do it poorly until
you’re able to do it better,

604
00:35:42,900 –> 00:35:45,900
don’t not do it at all because
Can’t do it, perfect.

605
00:35:47,100 –> 00:35:49,600
Do your best.
As Paul to Timothy.

606
00:35:50,200 –> 00:35:54,100
Do your best to present yourself
to God as one approved.

607
00:35:54,600 –> 00:35:57,300
A Workman that does not need to
be ashamed.

608
00:35:57,900 –> 00:36:00,000
Who correctly?
Handles the word of God.

609
00:36:01,900 –> 00:36:07,100
So find something you can do and
then begin to do it, do what you

610
00:36:07,100 –> 00:36:12,300
can with what you have, right?
Where you are.

611
00:36:12,300 –> 00:36:16,500
Now not when I get out of
school, not when I get a better

612
00:36:16,500 –> 00:36:18,600
job.
Not when the children are not,

613
00:36:18,600 –> 00:36:22,400
you right now.
Today you go out this afternoon.

614
00:36:22,500 –> 00:36:25,100
This is a Sunday afternoon and
most of you don’t have to be at

615
00:36:25,100 –> 00:36:28,100
work until Monday morning this
afternoon.

616
00:36:28,100 –> 00:36:32,400
You do something for God.
By doing something for somebody

617
00:36:32,400 –> 00:36:37,600
else that you hadn’t thought of
until this class when you get

618
00:36:37,600 –> 00:36:39,100
home.
Or if you’re on the road, you me

619
00:36:39,800 –> 00:36:41,800
all the time, you’re driving
home, you can think about what

620
00:36:41,800 –> 00:36:44,500
is it we can do.
When you get home, you have some

621
00:36:44,500 –> 00:36:48,100
ideas, you might call up.
Somebody says, oh sorry, you

622
00:36:48,100 –> 00:36:50,600
couldn’t go to the weekend.
We had a good time and let me

623
00:36:50,607 –> 00:36:53,400
tell you what happened and maybe
you can remember something that

624
00:36:53,400 –> 00:36:55,800
happened that you can share with
somebody who wasn’t able to

625
00:36:55,800 –> 00:36:58,900
come.
You see, God works with weak

626
00:36:58,900 –> 00:37:02,200
people and that’s us.
We’re all week.

627
00:37:02,200 –> 00:37:06,500
We’re a bundle of flies and God
knows every flaw you have.

628
00:37:06,500 –> 00:37:08,800
So you can’t hide it from his
know you saying, well, you know,

629
00:37:09,400 –> 00:37:13,700
he knows but he wants you to
overcome that was a point of the

630
00:37:13,700 –> 00:37:15,900
hurdles.
You have hurdles to jump and you

631
00:37:15,900 –> 00:37:20,300
need to jump them So Paul says
to the Corinthians and second

632
00:37:20,300 –> 00:37:25,300
Corinthians 4:7, but we have
this treasure in Jars of Clay to

633
00:37:25,300 –> 00:37:28,300
show that all this.
All surpassing power is from God

634
00:37:28,300 –> 00:37:31,500
and not from us.
We are hard pressed on every

635
00:37:31,500 –> 00:37:37,800
side, not crushed perplexed, but
not in despair.

636
00:37:38,300 –> 00:37:44,500
Persecuted, not abandoned struck
down but not destroyed.

637
00:37:45,200 –> 00:37:49,900
So God here is Telling us to
Paul that you’re going to be

638
00:37:50,600 –> 00:37:52,800
pressed on every side, you’re
going to be perplexed.

639
00:37:52,800 –> 00:37:54,900
You’re going to be in despair,
you’re going to be persecuted,

640
00:37:54,900 –> 00:37:57,500
you’re going to be sure, but you
got to keep getting up.

641
00:37:57,700 –> 00:38:00,200
So I’m talking about a man who
falls out of six time, but he

642
00:38:00,207 –> 00:38:04,400
gets up every time to seventh.
Don’t just lie down to Old Wars,

643
00:38:04,400 –> 00:38:08,400
be, I got knocked down.
Get up and get going again.

644
00:38:09,200 –> 00:38:12,000
Paul knew what it was to be
discouraged.

645
00:38:12,600 –> 00:38:14,100
But what did he do when he was
discouraged?

646
00:38:14,100 –> 00:38:17,500
He tried to encourage others.
He had a thorn in his flesh and

647
00:38:17,500 –> 00:38:19,900
he didn’t like it, he asked God
to remove and God said no.

648
00:38:20,800 –> 00:38:25,200
So he says, I take pleasure,
then in my infirmities you see

649
00:38:25,200 –> 00:38:27,300
God can work around your
infirmities.

650
00:38:28,000 –> 00:38:30,500
I don’t race people.
Like I did Stephen egerton

651
00:38:30,500 –> 00:38:33,200
anymore.
I realize that I’ve outgrown

652
00:38:33,200 –> 00:38:38,100
that but because I can’t race
Steve anymore.

653
00:38:38,100 –> 00:38:40,700
Does that mean I can’t do
anything anymore?

654
00:38:41,400 –> 00:38:44,300
No, there’s something I can do
whatever it is.

655
00:38:44,300 –> 00:38:48,500
Get busy doing it.
And when you love people you

656
00:38:48,500 –> 00:38:51,800
you’ve tried to think what can I
do for that?

657
00:38:51,800 –> 00:38:56,200
But you see sometimes this
backfires this is a this is a

658
00:38:56,300 –> 00:38:59,700
case of a sister who had young
children and down the street,

659
00:38:59,700 –> 00:39:04,400
there was an old sister Jones.
And and so, one day the mother

660
00:39:04,400 –> 00:39:07,100
thought we should find out how
she is.

661
00:39:07,800 –> 00:39:11,300
So she said to the children,
would you go down the street and

662
00:39:11,300 –> 00:39:13,200
see how old sister Jones is
today?

663
00:39:14,400 –> 00:39:16,900
So the kitties ran off and came
back and he made a few minutes

664
00:39:16,900 –> 00:39:18,600
ago, she said, it’s none of your
business.

665
00:39:18,600 –> 00:39:26,600
How old she is today?
Now, you see, she said, go see

666
00:39:26,600 –> 00:39:29,800
how old sister Jones is?
He meant she was describing her,

667
00:39:29,800 –> 00:39:36,000
not asking for her age.
So so what happens when this

668
00:39:36,000 –> 00:39:39,000
backfires you could I’m never
going to ask her again.

669
00:39:39,300 –> 00:39:41,500
You see, you have to be patient
with people.

670
00:39:42,700 –> 00:39:46,200
Her little children,
misunderstood the mother and

671
00:39:46,200 –> 00:39:49,500
the, and the certainly, the old
sister, misunderstood the kids.

672
00:39:50,200 –> 00:39:53,000
And so she and need to go down
there and patch things up.

673
00:39:53,600 –> 00:39:55,500
And see I didn’t really ask my
children.

674
00:39:55,500 –> 00:39:57,700
How old you were?
I want to know how you are.

675
00:39:59,300 –> 00:40:03,700
And all the trouble would go
away but sometimes when we try

676
00:40:03,700 –> 00:40:06,200
to do something nice for
somebody, it doesn’t backfire as

677
00:40:06,200 –> 00:40:07,100
well.
That’s the last time I heard

678
00:40:07,100 –> 00:40:09,800
anything for you.
And that’s not the attitude

679
00:40:09,800 –> 00:40:11,600
either.
You do things for people who

680
00:40:11,600 –> 00:40:15,300
don’t even say thank you.
They don’t show any appreciation

681
00:40:15,300 –> 00:40:17,600
for what you and you keep on
doing it.

682
00:40:18,500 –> 00:40:22,400
And you keep on keeping on
because you’re doing it not just

683
00:40:22,400 –> 00:40:25,800
for them, it’s your service to
the Lord.

684
00:40:26,600 –> 00:40:29,200
So you need to keep pressing on
for the mark, for the prize of

685
00:40:29,200 –> 00:40:34,000
the high calling in Christ.
Jesus we need to just keep on

686
00:40:34,300 –> 00:40:38,200
but if you don’t have a plan and
you don’t work your plan, then

687
00:40:38,200 –> 00:40:42,900
nothing will happen.
I’ve come a long ways to spend

688
00:40:42,900 –> 00:40:47,100
some time with you, and I’m
thankful that you invited me and

689
00:40:47,100 –> 00:40:51,200
I’m glad I came.
But I want to tell you this

690
00:40:51,200 –> 00:40:56,000
right now.
If you leave this place, And you

691
00:40:56,000 –> 00:40:58,500
go out and go back to where you
came from.

692
00:40:59,800 –> 00:41:02,800
And everything is going to be
the same as it was before you

693
00:41:02,800 –> 00:41:06,000
came here.
I should have stayed home.

694
00:41:07,500 –> 00:41:11,300
I wasted my time.
I wish that your time I should

695
00:41:11,300 –> 00:41:17,000
never have bothered you.
Because the whole purpose of

696
00:41:17,008 –> 00:41:21,800
these classes on the way of life
is to help all of us change and

697
00:41:21,800 –> 00:41:24,000
do something better than we were
doing it.

698
00:41:25,300 –> 00:41:30,000
And so I pray that that will be
true and I won’t know it, it’s

699
00:41:30,000 –> 00:41:33,800
none of my business.
I know I’m not prying But I do

700
00:41:33,800 –> 00:41:37,300
pray.
The thoughts which were not

701
00:41:37,300 –> 00:41:39,700
mine.
They were God’s thoughts.

702
00:41:39,700 –> 00:41:45,000
He used me as his tool.
I hope that they find fertile

703
00:41:45,500 –> 00:41:51,100
ground in your heart and bring
forth glory and honor to your

704
00:41:51,100 –> 00:41:56,300
heavenly father.
Why did God?

705
00:41:57,500 –> 00:42:02,400
Cause Jesus to go through
everything that he endured.

706
00:42:04,800 –> 00:42:08,400
For us, he was tempted in all
points.

707
00:42:09,100 –> 00:42:13,100
Just like we are yet without
sin.

708
00:42:14,200 –> 00:42:16,900
And that’s such a beautiful
thought and the doctrine of the

709
00:42:16,900 –> 00:42:19,900
Trinity, destroy you, because
you have a God who can’t sin

710
00:42:20,000 –> 00:42:23,600
being tempted.
It was meaningless, but you see,

711
00:42:24,200 –> 00:42:30,100
you are having problems.
Literally, God is helping solve

712
00:42:30,100 –> 00:42:33,400
other people’s problems.
By giving you yours, you think

713
00:42:33,400 –> 00:42:36,000
about Job.
Why did you all have all his

714
00:42:36,000 –> 00:42:37,800
problems?
He was trying to convert three

715
00:42:37,800 –> 00:42:41,700
friends, his suffering was for
their benefit.

716
00:42:42,400 –> 00:42:46,300
Sometimes your suffering is not
for you, it’s for their benefit,

717
00:42:46,600 –> 00:42:48,300
Paul suffered all kinds of
things.

718
00:42:48,700 –> 00:42:51,400
The Lord Jesus learned obedience
by the things, which he

719
00:42:51,400 –> 00:42:55,500
suffered, because he suffered
these things, he understands

720
00:42:55,500 –> 00:42:57,800
what you’re going through.
And when you go to your heavenly

721
00:42:57,800 –> 00:43:01,100
father in prayer and pray
through Jesus lead us not into

722
00:43:01,100 –> 00:43:02,600
temptation, but Deliver Us from
Evil.

723
00:43:02,600 –> 00:43:04,000
He says, I know.
I’ve been there.

724
00:43:04,000 –> 00:43:09,700
I’ve done that.
So if you are a former alcoholic

725
00:43:10,100 –> 00:43:13,100
alcoholic sir told never to use
the word, former, I am an

726
00:43:13,100 –> 00:43:16,500
alcoholic, they may not have had
a drink for 20 or 30 years.

727
00:43:16,500 –> 00:43:19,300
There’s still an alcoholic.
I don’t know if you’ve ever been

728
00:43:19,300 –> 00:43:22,000
to an AA meeting in your life,
but I have been the one.

729
00:43:22,500 –> 00:43:24,100
I was working with a young
brother.

730
00:43:24,100 –> 00:43:26,300
Here we are, man, he was not a
brother.

731
00:43:26,400 –> 00:43:29,700
You studying the truth.
He was actually a doctor, he was

732
00:43:29,700 –> 00:43:31,700
a medical doctor.
He had been a naval doctor.

733
00:43:31,700 –> 00:43:39,400
Did you know, they specialize
that for He had been a doctor in

734
00:43:39,400 –> 00:43:43,200
the Navy.
And he used to come to my house

735
00:43:43,200 –> 00:43:46,600
once a week to study and when he
started, he couldn’t spell

736
00:43:46,600 –> 00:43:49,200
Bible.
I mean, he could have been mean,

737
00:43:49,200 –> 00:43:53,200
he knew nothing about the Bible
so we started really Ground Zero

738
00:43:53,600 –> 00:44:00,200
but after a few many sessions he
said to me one day, Bob, he

739
00:44:00,200 –> 00:44:03,700
believed that he needed to keep
going to AA, meetings to keep

740
00:44:03,700 –> 00:44:06,900
himself dry.
He’s Bob, would you go to a

741
00:44:06,900 –> 00:44:10,200
meeting with me?
Well, I didn’t really want to go

742
00:44:10,200 –> 00:44:12,200
to an AA meeting.
But I said, if you want me to

743
00:44:12,200 –> 00:44:15,000
his, yes, I want you to call us
and we’ll go.

744
00:44:15,600 –> 00:44:19,100
Now, they have a big book, like
you have an ALS diary.

745
00:44:19,400 –> 00:44:23,500
Well, they have a book of all
the AA meetings in the world and

746
00:44:23,500 –> 00:44:25,800
they haven’t by sections
because, you know, and he had

747
00:44:25,800 –> 00:44:29,300
one for our area.
Now, he went to an AA meeting

748
00:44:29,300 –> 00:44:32,500
because he lived across the Town
West, Los Angeles used to drive

749
00:44:32,500 –> 00:44:34,200
a long ways to my house every
week.

750
00:44:36,300 –> 00:44:39,800
I assume that this week, I would
go, I was willing to drive to

751
00:44:39,800 –> 00:44:42,500
his area to go to his AA meeting
with me.

752
00:44:43,100 –> 00:44:47,700
Oh no, he’s so thoughtful of me.
He looked up in his book.

753
00:44:48,400 –> 00:44:51,700
He found an AA meeting about
eight blocks from my house.

754
00:44:53,400 –> 00:44:56,300
I’ve lived in my home for 43
years, hadn’t lived, there that

755
00:44:56,300 –> 00:45:01,200
long, then about 30 Maybe.
And our kids had gone through

756
00:45:01,200 –> 00:45:05,700
all the schools I had been a
coach of a little league team.

757
00:45:06,300 –> 00:45:09,000
I mean I knew a lot of people I
didn’t want to go to an AA

758
00:45:09,000 –> 00:45:10,700
meeting eight blocks from my
house.

759
00:45:14,500 –> 00:45:17,000
You know I’m going to walk over
Bob what are you doing here?

760
00:45:17,000 –> 00:45:22,700
You know but he wanted me to and
so I did.

761
00:45:24,000 –> 00:45:25,800
And we walked in and I didn’t
know.

762
00:45:25,800 –> 00:45:30,500
So there I was so relieved.
But I was quite impressed.

763
00:45:31,800 –> 00:45:36,600
By the quality, none of my
Christie Devon’s except he and I

764
00:45:37,400 –> 00:45:39,500
and they never had a Christian
before and I probably never on

765
00:45:39,500 –> 00:45:42,700
sins.
But the reason I’m telling you

766
00:45:42,700 –> 00:45:47,000
this story is that brother is
now active in Southern

767
00:45:47,000 –> 00:45:52,100
California, helping people who
are trying to break the drink

768
00:45:52,100 –> 00:45:55,200
habit.
He knows the problems are going

769
00:45:55,200 –> 00:45:57,600
through because he went through
himself.

770
00:45:57,900 –> 00:46:04,100
He is far more qualified to I
sympathize with an alcoholic.

771
00:46:04,100 –> 00:46:07,300
Then me I’m not bragging but I
never been one.

772
00:46:08,600 –> 00:46:12,100
Can’t really understand what
it’s like because I never was

773
00:46:12,100 –> 00:46:17,900
why he understands he can help
you take a person who used to

774
00:46:17,900 –> 00:46:20,700
smoke and there’s a person
trying to stop smoking.

775
00:46:21,500 –> 00:46:26,300
That person who was a smoker is
more able to help the person.

776
00:46:26,300 –> 00:46:28,600
Kick the habit.
Then I am what you never did

777
00:46:28,600 –> 00:46:33,500
smoke.
So you see, even the problems,

778
00:46:33,500 –> 00:46:36,500
even the addictions, even the
the things that you’ve done,

779
00:46:36,500 –> 00:46:40,900
which were wrong in the past,
well, our fitting you to help

780
00:46:40,900 –> 00:46:44,200
somebody today, who is facing
the problem that you have

781
00:46:44,200 –> 00:46:49,900
conquered.
A mother with a colicky baby

782
00:46:50,400 –> 00:46:54,100
cries all night.
She said her wits in another

783
00:46:54,100 –> 00:46:59,100
mother with teenaged kids who
remembers when they were ecology

784
00:46:59,600 –> 00:47:03,900
is able to help that sister for
more than I can.

785
00:47:06,300 –> 00:47:11,500
A cancer survivor.
Who’s gone through chemo and

786
00:47:11,500 –> 00:47:14,500
radiation and they’re now in
remission.

787
00:47:15,600 –> 00:47:18,600
And they just find out that one
of the sisters in the meeting

788
00:47:18,600 –> 00:47:21,800
was told yesterday she has
cancer.

789
00:47:23,600 –> 00:47:28,500
Now I can go see her but I don’t
if the size the same as that

790
00:47:28,500 –> 00:47:33,900
person who’s gone through it can
so you see even the things that

791
00:47:33,900 –> 00:47:37,400
have happened in your life,
which could have been bad things

792
00:47:37,800 –> 00:47:42,900
and you have conquered them now,
God has prepared you to look

793
00:47:42,900 –> 00:47:46,800
around and find somebody else
who’s facing the same kind of

794
00:47:46,800 –> 00:47:50,100
problem and you can step in and
help them.

795
00:47:51,100 –> 00:47:54,400
So everything that’s happening
in our life is preparing us for

796
00:47:54,400 –> 00:47:58,400
the kingdom.
Even the bad things is so use

797
00:47:58,400 –> 00:48:03,100
the experience that you’ve had
to help someone who is not yet

798
00:48:03,600 –> 00:48:06,200
conquered.
The thing that you have been

799
00:48:06,200 –> 00:48:13,300
able to overcome and so, Service
is not an option.

800
00:48:14,400 –> 00:48:17,500
It’s not a suggestion.
It’s a command.

801
00:48:18,400 –> 00:48:22,400
So I want you this afternoon,
God willing, I can’t make you do

802
00:48:22,400 –> 00:48:24,500
this, you know.
It’d be wrong if I could make

803
00:48:24,500 –> 00:48:27,900
you be wrong too.
But I’m pleading with you to

804
00:48:27,900 –> 00:48:33,900
decide this afternoon for a
piece of paper, some things that

805
00:48:33,900 –> 00:48:37,800
you can do for God by helping
others.

806
00:48:39,100 –> 00:48:40,500
That you may not have been
doing.

807
00:48:42,000 –> 00:48:47,100
Every one of us could preach
just know, you don’t have to

808
00:48:47,100 –> 00:48:48,700
know, all the answers.
I will, I don’t tell you about

809
00:48:48,700 –> 00:48:51,100
have a Christian because I don’t
know how to answer the questions

810
00:48:51,100 –> 00:48:53,900
on the devil and The Trinity
Immortal Soul or they just say

811
00:48:53,900 –> 00:48:57,300
you’re a Christian delphian.
We had a man who came into the

812
00:48:57,300 –> 00:49:01,500
truth from the radio program, we
had radio program has it and he

813
00:49:01,600 –> 00:49:04,400
had no nothing.
He was so alive for the truth.

814
00:49:04,400 –> 00:49:06,800
He never ever exhorted his
entire life.

815
00:49:07,400 –> 00:49:10,400
He was so full of the truth.
He used to say, I don’t talk

816
00:49:10,400 –> 00:49:13,300
good.
But he used to have a big Tipper

817
00:49:13,300 –> 00:49:16,800
quarters, those great, big
things will reel to reels and he

818
00:49:16,800 –> 00:49:20,300
would take that carry that big
thing over to somebody’s house

819
00:49:20,300 –> 00:49:23,000
with a tape on it by
christadelphians who he said

820
00:49:23,000 –> 00:49:26,300
talk good and he say, I want to
play you something.

821
00:49:27,300 –> 00:49:29,800
And then they’d ask a question.
I don’t know, but he said, I’ll

822
00:49:29,808 –> 00:49:33,000
get an Alkali find out.
He was always coming back to

823
00:49:33,000 –> 00:49:35,100
our, the rest of us saying, how
do you answer this question,

824
00:49:35,100 –> 00:49:37,500
honey?
But you saw, so he started off

825
00:49:37,800 –> 00:49:42,700
doing something poorly but doing
it and he got better at it.

826
00:49:43,100 –> 00:49:46,000
He never is.
Oh my ever got good.

827
00:49:46,100 –> 00:49:50,000
He’s in the hospital in a
double, in a room with two beds

828
00:49:50,000 –> 00:49:52,700
and the guy in the other bed is
a Marine.

829
00:49:53,900 –> 00:49:55,700
And he started talking to him
about the truth.

830
00:49:57,000 –> 00:50:00,300
Make a long story short, the
Marine got baptized and quit the

831
00:50:00,300 –> 00:50:04,000
Marines.
But this man didn’t do it alone.

832
00:50:04,000 –> 00:50:07,200
He says, I don’t talk to it.
He couldn’t, he couldn’t, he

833
00:50:07,200 –> 00:50:10,500
couldn’t explain away the devil
or the Trinity really difficult

834
00:50:10,500 –> 00:50:12,500
subject.
My father’s house are many

835
00:50:12,500 –> 00:50:14,000
mansions.
You know, I go to prayer.

836
00:50:14,000 –> 00:50:15,500
He will, you know, how to answer
that.

837
00:50:15,900 –> 00:50:17,800
But verily, I say to you today,
you shall be with me in

838
00:50:17,800 –> 00:50:19,200
Paradise, he did not answer
that.

839
00:50:19,400 –> 00:50:21,500
He knew that you didn’t go to
paradise that day.

840
00:50:21,500 –> 00:50:24,400
He knew that heaven was not a
reward of the righteous, but

841
00:50:24,400 –> 00:50:25,900
he’s not, I’ll get some answers
for you.

842
00:50:26,000 –> 00:50:27,800
He came to me, you something to
read.

843
00:50:27,800 –> 00:50:31,200
Let me pay you this tape.
You see each one of you, one of

844
00:50:31,207 –> 00:50:32,900
these.
You all have do is become a

845
00:50:32,900 –> 00:50:36,700
preacher because God has nobody
else in this world to do it

846
00:50:36,700 –> 00:50:40,600
except you We can’t hire the
Jehovah’s Witnesses.

847
00:50:40,600 –> 00:50:44,200
Do it.
They put us to shame in the

848
00:50:44,200 –> 00:50:47,700
world and the way that they got
knocking on doors and we don’t

849
00:50:47,700 –> 00:50:50,500
do that very much and they get
converts from him.

850
00:50:50,800 –> 00:50:54,100
They can rely to projections,
but they get converts, we’re

851
00:50:54,100 –> 00:50:57,900
finding in the mission field.
If you just dissed plant seeds,

852
00:50:57,900 –> 00:51:01,600
when you get home this weekend,
till people, hope you can say

853
00:51:01,600 –> 00:51:05,300
this, I had a great weekend.
What’d you do?

854
00:51:05,600 –> 00:51:09,300
Oh, I went through some Bible
talks about what church of

855
00:51:09,300 –> 00:51:11,600
christadelphians crispy oven
over our way.

856
00:51:11,600 –> 00:51:14,300
Nobody’s ever heard of Chris, I
got a little story about

857
00:51:14,300 –> 00:51:16,100
christadelphians.
I do this with everybody.

858
00:51:16,100 –> 00:51:20,400
I meet you’re playing, were
because most people have never

859
00:51:20,400 –> 00:51:22,200
heard of the word Christian
America.

860
00:51:22,500 –> 00:51:25,800
We got we’re not that good at
preaching we should be in

861
00:51:25,800 –> 00:51:27,700
Australia.
It’s better but it’s not perfect

862
00:51:27,700 –> 00:51:30,400
here either and I’ve been
talking to some people were not

863
00:51:30,400 –> 00:51:32,800
Christian friends and I mention
I’m coming to a Christian thing

864
00:51:32,800 –> 00:51:34,000
and they never heard of you
either.

865
00:51:34,900 –> 00:51:38,100
So it isn’t universally known
like Catholics are the

866
00:51:38,100 –> 00:51:41,300
Presbyterians or something?
But I say it’s where the word

867
00:51:41,300 –> 00:51:45,700
Christ and Adelphia in Adelphia
is a Greek word.

868
00:51:45,700 –> 00:51:50,000
It simply means brother.
Have you think Philadelphia is a

869
00:51:50,000 –> 00:51:51,600
funny word?
I always ask.

870
00:51:51,700 –> 00:51:54,200
If you ask people questions they
have to answer you.

871
00:51:54,300 –> 00:51:56,900
If you start preaching and
talking and talking, they just

872
00:51:56,900 –> 00:51:58,300
turn you off their eyes glaze
over.

873
00:51:58,300 –> 00:51:59,500
And you know you’re not getting
through.

874
00:52:00,400 –> 00:52:03,300
But if you ask him a question,
do you think Philadelphia is a

875
00:52:03,300 –> 00:52:06,200
funny name?
No, I say Philadelphia.

876
00:52:06,200 –> 00:52:09,100
You don’t start laughing.
Well, Philadelphia is actually

877
00:52:09,400 –> 00:52:11,700
two Greek words.
It’s the word phileo.

878
00:52:12,500 –> 00:52:16,300
And that’s the Greek words.
That means love and Adelphia is

879
00:52:16,300 –> 00:52:18,100
a Greek word.
Which means brother, when you

880
00:52:18,100 –> 00:52:22,400
say phileo, Adelphia, you’re
saying love brother.

881
00:52:22,800 –> 00:52:26,600
Now, we are Christ’s Adelphia
the word Christ.

882
00:52:26,600 –> 00:52:29,400
That’s not a funny word,
everybody’s heard Christ and the

883
00:52:29,400 –> 00:52:33,800
word, Adelphia nests or name.
And I go through this everybody

884
00:52:33,800 –> 00:52:38,200
I meet So I had talked to truth
to a man about thirty years

885
00:52:38,200 –> 00:52:43,600
before and he had moved away and
he was came back to Pasadena as

886
00:52:43,600 –> 00:52:48,600
a manager of a new bank and we
were going to buy a piece of

887
00:52:48,600 –> 00:52:52,500
property for an office building
and I we needed to borrow some

888
00:52:52,500 –> 00:52:55,100
money and I thought, well, you
remember me.

889
00:52:55,100 –> 00:52:58,300
He was a manager of a bank in
Pasadena and he moved to Texas

890
00:52:58,300 –> 00:53:01,600
and he’s back again.
So I walked into his new bank

891
00:53:01,800 –> 00:53:04,300
and he’s sitting there and he’s
big corner office with all glass

892
00:53:04,300 –> 00:53:07,300
around.
He is on the telephone and I

893
00:53:07,300 –> 00:53:10,300
talked to his secretary outside
as I’d like to see mr.

894
00:53:10,300 –> 00:53:13,100
Gaston, when he gets off the
phone, she sure, I’ll tell me

895
00:53:13,100 –> 00:53:16,300
you’re here.
So I stand outside.

896
00:53:16,700 –> 00:53:19,200
She goes in and she says,
there’s a man here to see you.

897
00:53:19,200 –> 00:53:23,600
His name is Bob Lloyd.
So, I walk into the office and

898
00:53:23,600 –> 00:53:27,200
yoga is Joe Gaslight.
You’ll just goes to show, how

899
00:53:27,200 –> 00:53:29,500
are you Joe?
And he says, hi Bob, are you

900
00:53:29,500 –> 00:53:38,600
still a Philadelphian?
So, you know, he remembered

901
00:53:38,600 –> 00:53:42,300
something, even he kind of
botched it up a little bit, but

902
00:53:42,300 –> 00:53:47,400
the point is all of us.
One of the things you can do, is

903
00:53:47,400 –> 00:53:51,500
you go out and tell other people
you are cuz delphian, and if

904
00:53:51,500 –> 00:53:56,500
they don’t want to listen, it’s
not your problem. but Ezekiel

905
00:53:56,500 –> 00:54:00,100
says, if you don’t tell them,
It’s your problem.

906
00:54:00,900 –> 00:54:04,200
If you tell them and they won’t
listen, it’s their problem.

907
00:54:04,600 –> 00:54:06,700
You don’t have to be a rocket
scientist to figure out, it’s

908
00:54:06,700 –> 00:54:08,400
better to be their problem than
yours.

909
00:54:09,900 –> 00:54:13,800
So one of the things we want to
do when you leave here today is

910
00:54:13,800 –> 00:54:18,800
decide you’re going to be more
Persistent and sharing your hope

911
00:54:18,800 –> 00:54:20,700
with others.
You don’t have to do it.

912
00:54:20,707 –> 00:54:24,300
Well do it poorly till you get
better at it but believe me the

913
00:54:24,300 –> 00:54:26,300
more you preach, the better
you’ll get at.

914
00:54:26,300 –> 00:54:30,300
And so there’s a lots lots of
homework for us to do when we

915
00:54:30,300 –> 00:54:32,700
leave here because this was a
workshop.

916
00:54:32,700 –> 00:54:38,500
This was this was not just to
entertain, this was to say, this

917
00:54:38,500 –> 00:54:42,600
is a life-changing weekend and
we’re going to leave this place

918
00:54:42,600 –> 00:54:47,200
and try to be more faithful in
serving God, we’re Thank God for

919
00:54:47,200 –> 00:54:49,200
our hurdles were going to stop
complaining when we have

920
00:54:49,200 –> 00:54:53,100
problems, we’re going to realize
life is a test were being tested

921
00:54:53,600 –> 00:54:57,500
and we life is Services is not
an option.

922
00:54:58,100 –> 00:55:03,400
We, you got things to do and so
yesterday you got around to it.

923
00:55:04,300 –> 00:55:05,400
Now.
You know, it was around to it

924
00:55:05,400 –> 00:55:08,100
because it said it was a to it.
If I think since it’s a to it

925
00:55:08,100 –> 00:55:12,100
it’s a to it.
Now, I happen to be round, so it

926
00:55:12,100 –> 00:55:14,700
was around to it.
And people say, I’ll do

927
00:55:14,700 –> 00:55:16,700
something when I get around to
it, you can’t use this in any

928
00:55:16,700 –> 00:55:19,200
other countries except I’m
English-speaking, doesn’t work.

929
00:55:21,500 –> 00:55:24,600
Good guy said, he’s a, you know
it’s a play on words.

930
00:55:25,000 –> 00:55:27,000
Now today you’re going to get a
new one.

931
00:55:29,100 –> 00:55:32,200
It says it’s a to it.
So it’s a two.

932
00:55:32,200 –> 00:55:36,300
It says he isn’t it, but the
little piece of wood now, will

933
00:55:36,300 –> 00:55:38,300
you call little pieces of wood
sticks?

934
00:55:39,300 –> 00:55:47,600
So this is a stick to it.
And you are now to get around to

935
00:55:47,600 –> 00:55:51,000
it and seek first, the kingdom
of God, and now you are to stick

936
00:55:51,000 –> 00:55:55,400
to it and be steadfast
immovable, always abounding in

937
00:55:55,400 –> 00:55:59,700
the work of the Lord.
So each of you now is we’re

938
00:55:59,700 –> 00:56:03,900
going to pass these out in just
a moment and take them home.

939
00:56:03,900 –> 00:56:08,900
As reminders of what we talked
about, you do have to get around

940
00:56:09,200 –> 00:56:11,700
to it and seeking first God’s
kingdom, you want to be in the

941
00:56:11,700 –> 00:56:13,300
Kingdom, more than your house.
All the world.

942
00:56:13,300 –> 00:56:15,800
I know that.
And now you have to keep on

943
00:56:15,800 –> 00:56:20,000
keeping on keeping on.
And so I want to thank you for

944
00:56:20,000 –> 00:56:23,000
the patience that you’ve given
to me and these classes over the

945
00:56:23,000 –> 00:56:26,200
last two days and I’m going to
borrow some words from Paul.

946
00:56:29,300 –> 00:56:31,600
He said your bike to people, he
would never see it again.

947
00:56:34,200 –> 00:56:36,800
They lived in Ephesus.
It where did FSA travel down to

948
00:56:36,800 –> 00:56:40,500
see Paul but when they got
there, he says, you will never

949
00:56:40,500 –> 00:56:44,200
see my face again.
And so they walked to the boat

950
00:56:45,100 –> 00:56:50,500
and he said goodbye.
And they felt sad and his words

951
00:56:51,200 –> 00:56:58,800
to them are by words to you.
I commend you to God and to the

952
00:56:58,800 –> 00:57:03,800
word of his grace, which is able
to build you up and to give you

953
00:57:03,800 –> 00:57:07,500
an inheritance, among all them
that are sanctified.