Bob Lloyd – Class 7: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

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Whenever I have a great pleasure
inviting brother Bob to come

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forward and to Enlighten us
about this question, what do you

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want to be when you grow up?
Thank you, buddy.

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Good evening, my beloved
brothers, and sisters, and young

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people like to tell you how
happy I am to be back home

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again.
Here, we have fond memories of

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being in this Hall, on previous
occasions and meeting.

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Sweet fellowship with so many of
you and it’s just great to be

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back.
When I was a little boy.

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And that was a long, long, long
time ago.

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I can remember growing UPS
saying to me, what do you want

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to be when you grow up?
So little boys have dreams of

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what they would like to be.
Sometimes want to be Cowboys.

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Airline pilots fireman.
Astronauts.

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When I was a little boy, nobody
want to be an astronaut they

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hadn’t been invented yet.
One.

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Little boy said, when I grow up,
I want to either be an

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automobile mechanic or a garbage
collector.

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And someone said, why do you
want to be one of those two?

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He’s a so I can get dirty.
A little girls are different and

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little girls.
They want to be nurses and they

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want to be models and they want
to be mothers and they play

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house.
And sometimes they even ought to

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beat fire women too because we
have fire women as well as fire

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men over our way.
But here I am looking at an

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audience of primarily grown
adults.

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And you might say, why are you
asking me that question?

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But I’m going to ask it just the
same.

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What do you want to be when you
grow up?

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You might think you’re grown but
not from God’s Viewpoint, you

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aren’t.
Paul told when I was a child.

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I spake as a child.
I understood as a child, I

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thought as a child, but when I
became a man, I put away

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childish things but we all If
we’re honest have to admit that

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sometimes we carry childish
things on into our adulthood,

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But from God’s Viewpoint, all of
us, without exception, you’re

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all little children in our
classes over the weekend.

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We mentioned the fact that poor
Methuselah never even lived to

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see Monday morning.
Because Peter tells us that a

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thousand years is just like one
day to God.

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Since he lived, only 969 years,
he was dead before the first day

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was over.
And so using a thousand years as

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a scale there is no one in this
room that has lived to see 3

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a.m. because you would be 125
years old at 3 a.m. and none of

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us live that long.
So James asks, this question,

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what is your life?
It’s even a vapor that appears

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for a little time and then
vanisheth away.

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So if we haven’t lived till 3
a.m., we haven’t lived very long

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in God’s Viewpoint and then
Isaiah tells us that the nations

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are like a drop in a bucket.
And they are regarded as dust of

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the scales and when you look at
the old fashioned scales and you

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put some on one side and if
something on the other hand, you

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see, you know, the nation, all
the nations, the whole world is

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like the dust on once.
It doesn’t even make it go down

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a little bit.
So we really are not that

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important when it comes to
thinking, look who I am when all

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the nations of the world are
just like the dust of the

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balance.
And yet God knows each one of us

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by name and he cares about us
and that’s a wonderful thing to

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behold to remember and to take
comfort in.

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Now, Paul told us if any man
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He doesn’t know anything, like
he ought to know.

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So, no matter how much we think
we know the biggest room you

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have in your house has room for
improvement and you don’t know

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what you ought to know.
All of us are in that boat

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together.
And so from God’s Viewpoint,

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we’re all little children and
we’re all learning.

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And we hope that God will be
patient with us because he’s not

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finished with us yet.
We’re all still a work.

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Progress.
And so if we turn our Bibles to

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the first letter of John, John
is on the continually call us

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Little Children First, John
chapter 2 and verse 1.

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He says my little children, he’s
talking to grown-up people.

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I’ve been invited to speak to
you tonight.

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And I’m asking you what you want
to do, when you grow up.

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And John is saying my little
children, these things write I

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unto you that ye sin, not so
that really is a good letter to

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read.
You can help you from sinning.

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So we should study it.
And if any man sin we have an

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advocate with the father.
Jesus Christ, the righteous.

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Then if you cast your eyes down,
a few verses in the same chapter

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coming in at verse 28 he says
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Now little children abide in him
that when he shall appear, We

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may have confidence and not be
ashamed before him at his

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coming.
So twice in that chapter, he

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just my little children.
Then you go to the third

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chapter.
And in verse 7, he says little

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children, let no man deceive
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He that doeth righteousness is
righteous even as he is

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righteous.
Again, little children Verse 18,

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my little children, let us not
love in word, neither in tongue

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but in deed and in truth.
And then the chapter for ye are

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of God, verse for ye are of God
little children and have

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overcome them.
Because greater is he that is in

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you than that.
He is in the world.

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So if possible John is lovely
brother that wrote an epistle to

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your pistols and one gospel he
continually calls us little

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children but you know he wasn’t
the only one who did this, Paul

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did it to in Galatians 4:19 my
little children.

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Now this is an interesting verse
because Paul is talking about us

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go to those in galatia but these
words were written for us too.

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Because we are they To us.
My little children is of whom I

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travail in birth.
Again, until Christ be formed in

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you.
He’s talking about babies that

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are hardly born travailing in
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Paul is using picturesque
language to describe himself as

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a parent, a to those.
He was trying to motivate to

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follow the lord, Jesus Christ.
So we may think that we are full

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grown, but Paul and John thought
of us as little children.

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Children and in Galatians, he’s
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You just being born travailing
in birth, your your newborns and

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these were fully grown adults.
He was addressing.

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Now, we all are familiar with
what happened in that upper room

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just before Jesus went out to be
crucified.

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And Jesus waited.
Until after Judas left.

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And Judas was really upsetting
Jesus.

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You could feel the tension that
Jesus was feeling having this

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betrayer in his midst, though.
He got down on his knees and

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washed his feet and when he
left, he said, what?

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Thou doest do quickly.
Then Jesus seems to sigh a sigh

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of relief and he turns to the
eleven and he refers to them.

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As little children, he never
used the phrase little children

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until Judas was gone.
It was a form of endearment.

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Jesus love them.
And he called them little

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children but he did include
Judas in those remarks.

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So with Paul telling us that
he’s travailing in birth, that

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we might be, we prevailing with
us that we might be born.

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He tells the Ephesians What we
ought to be doing is little

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children.
What do you want to be when you

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grow up?
Listen, it’s the answers coming

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up a speak the truth in love and
grow up.

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So, sometimes we say the child
grew up.

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Well, they grow up too fast.
Sometimes, if you have grown

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children, you realize how fast
it is, when they come in,

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they’re gone.
Then you have grandchildren and

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they’re coming.
They’re gone.

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And then your great
grandchildren and they’re still

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coming.
But Paul is saying speak the

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truth in love and grow up unto
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That is the head Christ.
So we’re back to that original

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question.
What do you want to be when you

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grow up and we have answer.
Now, Paul says, grow up and be

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like, Jesus.
That’s what we want to do.

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You might say, of course he was
a young man when he died, but he

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was the most mature person who
ever lived.

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He packed so much in 33 years
more than even Methuselah did in

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1969 years.
And so in our readings, which we

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read before we began in First
John 3, John says beloved.

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Now talk about now, right?
This evening.

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Now, are we, the sons of God.
It does not yet appear.

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What we shall be, but we know
that when he shall appear,

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That’s the Lord Jesus.
We shall be like him for.

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We shall see him as he is, so we
want to grow up to be like

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Jesus, and when Jesus comes, we
are going to be like him.

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We’re going to share his nature.
He’s going to give us the same

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kind of a mortal body that he
now possesses.

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So Paul is telling us to grow up
by speaking.

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The truth in love, And we want
to then try to do that in our

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everyday life if we’re
successful in, maturing then

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when our Lord comes he will
invite us to truly be like him

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by sharing his nature and living
forever in his kingdom.

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So what a great future you have,
we of all the people in the

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whole world and the greatest
future of anybody The promise of

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eternal life with the Lord Jesus
in his kingdom but in order to

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do that, you got to grow up.
Now you got to try to be like

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Jesus now or you’ll never be
like he is now if you’re if you

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don’t emulate his life as a
mortal you will not ever emulate

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or be like his life as an
immortal.

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So Paul travail in birth for his
children.

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Now in olden times in fact in
Australia, even today you have

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much larger families than we
seem to have in America and in a

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very big family, there would be
lots of brothers and sisters and

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the older brothers and sisters
would be a great help to Mom and

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Dad in bringing up their
siblings.

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And that same thing is happening
this evening right here in blue.

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Because we are a family and some
of us are a lot older than some

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of the rest of us.
And so, the older siblings are

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to help the younger siblings to
grow up.

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Since we’re all children, some
of us are just older children.

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It’s just, we’ve been around a
little bit longer.

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We can be a great help to the
young ones coming along.

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And so we have to recognize the
responsibility that we have as

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brothers and sisters of the
Lord, Jesus Christ in helping

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our younger brothers and sisters
to grow up and to be more, like

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Jesus.
Now, we know that children are

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great imitators of their parents
and other older brothers and

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sisters.
They wanted to do.

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What Mommy and Daddy are doing.
And so, the younger members of

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this closure or Europe to Asia,
wherever it might, be are all

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watching you that are older and
you might as well recognize that

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they are copying you even if you
don’t want them to, we have a

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bumper sticker over America’s
and don’t follow me, I’m lost.

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But people do follow you and you
would be surprised even

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children.
Look up to older children, older

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children locked up.
Teenagers, teenagers, look up to

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adults, adults, look up the
other adults, you are being

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watched by those around you, and
what you are is hollering, so

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loud.
I can’t hear what you’re saying,

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there’s no, you should tell him,
be faithful to the truth, you

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know, hold up the standards
high, and then they find that

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you’re cheating on your income
tax or you’re doing things that

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serve the Christ would not do is
no use of Father, saying to his

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son.
You always tell the truth.

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Don’t you ever lie?
But if the phone rings, tell him

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I’m not home.
See, they see right through us

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and we need to realize that and
so we have to always be on our

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guard to make sure that we are a
good example to others.

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And so me being a stranger here,
you know, that I do not know all

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these precious little children,
especially if they’re all

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running around, I don’t know
which one always belongs to

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which parents but if when this
meeting was over and all these

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children are enjoying their
little treats and I went up and

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spoke unkindly to one of these,
dear little children.

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And the parent heard me.
What’s the parent going to

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think?
That’s my precious.

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Little girl, that’s my Loop.
You talk to him like that.

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You see, they wouldn’t like it
and they were right.

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Now, what’s the point where you
see, We’re All God’s Children,

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he’s watching us.
And when you say something

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that’s not very nice about
another one of God’s children.

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He hears it.
And he doesn’t like it.

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You better be careful how you
talk about God’s other children

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because they’re all in this room
and they’re all over.

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And we sometimes see really
unkind things too.

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And sometimes about another
brother sister and everything,

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you’re saying is heard by God,
you go, yet, Grandma secrets.

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And so we have to be so careful
that we always speak the truth

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in love.
That’s what Paul said we do grow

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up and speak the truth and love.
Now I have experienced Parents.

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Fortunately, not very often in
Christian film but it has

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happened in them to who spoke a
very unkindly to their own

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little job and I’ve seen them
jerk them around.

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You know, children are precious
little thing and, you know, even

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there, I’m sockets are present
and I hope seen kids parents,

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grab a chilling, grabbed his arm
and I think he’s gonna he’s

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gonna put it on the side and it
does sometimes happen and

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they’re mad.
Come with me.

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You see, we always as an older
brother or sister.

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We always have to be in control
of our emotions.

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Your home.
In Arc Leisure.

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It, everywhere we go.
You must never let go of you and

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just be unkind to anyone.
And that’s not easy to do, but

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it is right to do.
And so what do you want to be

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when you grow up, if you want to
be more like Jesus, Jesus was

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kind and compassionate and
forgiving and helpful, even to

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those, who were not very nice to
hear me now.

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We think of John we’ve quoted
John.

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We read from John tonight.
He was the favorite disciple,

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Apostle of the Lord Jesus
Christ.

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We believe it.
He had a favorite, he loved them

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all, but he certainly John stood
out. and we read his Epistles

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and we read his gospel and we
think what a loving brother, he

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was But he wasn’t always like
that.

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There was a time when he was
following Jesus, he been

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baptized.
He was living a different life

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following the Jesus, he given up
his boat you walked away from

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his fishing business and he was
devoting his life to Jesus.

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And yet Jesus called John, And
his brother James sons of

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thunder.
And why did he call him sons of

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thunder?
Well, we know because we read

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Luke chapter 9 before and these
two young men were full of love

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for Jesus and they were willing
to stand up for Jesus.

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And if you don’t do what we say,
will burn you up and they

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thought they were on good.
Solid ground because they were

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referring to Elijah.
And if Elijah did that, we have

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a right to be that way too.
So Luke chapter 9 and verse 51.

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It came to pass when the time
was come, that Jesus should be

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received up.
He steadfastly set his face to

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go to Jerusalem Jerusalem.
And he sent messages before his

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face.
So they went and it into US,

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Village of the Samaritans to
make ready for him.

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Now, these Samaritans wouldn’t
receive him.

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They did not receive him because
his face was as though he would

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go to Jerusalem and when his
disciples James and John, they

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are angry at those people.
For mistreating their Lord, You

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Don’t Preach Jesus that way.
And so they turn to Jesus as

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Lord without command that we Man
Fire to come down from and burn

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them up just like Elijah did
Show those people, you be nice

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to Jesus or will burn your eyes
out.

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And Jesus turned and rebuked
them and said, you know, not

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what, manner of spirit you are
of for the son of man is not

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come to destroy men’s lives.
But to save them.

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And they went to another
Village.

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So you see that John?
At that point in his life, still

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had some growing up to do.
He had been baptized, he was

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following Jesus but God was not
finished with him yet and that

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son of Thunder eventually became
the Beloved Apostle of love.

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And I can’t again, you remember
Peter.

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Jesus says to Peter, I have
prayed for you and when When

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you’re converted.
Strengthen your brother.

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What do you mean to you when I’m
gone?

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I’ve been with you.
I’ve been baptized, I’ve been

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fought when I’m converted.
I’m converted.

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No.
Peter you are not yet converted.

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You will soon.
Didn’t I three times?

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You even know me?
See, please be patient with me.

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God is not finished with me yet.
God was not finished with John

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when he was a son of Thunder he
was not finished with Peter when

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he was denying his Lord.
And aren’t you thankful?

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That’s why we’re talking this
way what you say for he’s not

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finished with you yet.
Because you still have some

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growing up to do.
You could be offended at me.

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I’m sorry, if I offend you, I
don’t mean to but if the truth

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offends, you then I can’t help
that.

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Because all of us still have
some more growing up to do no

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matter how old we may be. and
so, We have to try to act like

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Jesus, even on the way to death,
those who mistreated him.

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He refused to hurt.
He came to save them not to

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destroy them. and so in 2nd
Timothy, We read in verse. 19 of

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chapter 2.
This was a book, the chapter we

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read, nevertheless, the
foundation of God.

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Standeth sure, having this seal
the Lord knows those that are

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his, you know, he knows about
you, he knows you’re sitting

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down because David says, he
knows what I said.

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I don’t want to stand it, he
knows that he knows have number

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of hairs on your head, you know,
that’s not very many for some of

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us.
Stillborn.

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I know about the Lord knows all
about us.

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That now, as a result of that,
let everyone name the name of

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Christ that it was name of
Christ depart from iniquity.

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And he said, in a great house,
there are many vessels and he

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talks about his having one body
being many part, vessels of gold

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and silver vessels of wood and
Earth some to honor and some to

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dishonor.
If a man therefore Purge himself

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from these, he shall be a vessel
unto honor Sanctified and meet

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for the Others use and prepared
unto every good work.

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Now we’re coming to the part
about growing up.

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What do you want to be when you
grow up?

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Verse 20 to flee?
Youthful lusts.

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Grow up, don’t do those silly
things.

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That youth are so often doing.
And the sad thing about it is

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that youthful lusts even carry
over.

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Into old age.
I can speak from experience now

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because now I’m over it.
And we never stop being tempted

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to sin.
When you’re no longer tempted,

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you are dead.
And so you run away from the

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things that would tempt you get
out of there, get away.

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Continue, but follow
righteousness and faith and love

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and peace with them that call on
the Lord, out of a pure heart.

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Verse 24th, the servant of the
Lord must not strive, but be

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gentle.
Only under christadelphians.

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Is that what the verse says?
I miss quoted in the servant of

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the Lord must not strive but be
gentle on too.

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Oh man.
Even people in the world that

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aren’t even nice to you.
You are gentle and kind and

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thoughtful of them.
In meekness instructing those

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that oppose themselves.
There are people who are Their

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Own Worst Enemy.
There are people, you know who

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just seem to be opposing
themselves, what they shoot

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themselves in the foot.
And Paul is saying, you’ve got

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to be kind to these people and
it’s trying to help them if God

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peradventure will give them
repentance to the acknowledging

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of the truth.
So this is what it means to grow

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up.
It means to go against all the

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things we normally would be
doing.

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We have to not react to the, to
the responses of a, I have a

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little story, I wasn’t going to
tell it, but my wife was to

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don’t tell that one, but It’s a
newspaper, bore story and maybe

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you’ve heard it because I’ve
tell it lots of times, but it

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had to do with this with a
little boy, selling newspapers

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in New York City and these kids
are tough.

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They grew up on the streets and
he stands on the corner with

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these paper paper.
Get your paper here and the

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people come in by the millions,
in the New York City every day

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on subways and trains thing, and
they work in New York City and

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every night, they all go back
out to the suburbs into And all

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other kind of places in this man
rides, the subway into downtown

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New York every day gets off the
subway, takes the escalator up

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to the street walks out on the
street and there’s walk to the

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corner.
This little kids paper paper,

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get your paper and this is a
very old story in this man.

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Gives him a quarter that’s 25
cents for a paper that cost a

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dime, which is 10 cents and
every day he gives us guy a

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quarter.
He says thank you.

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You son and he smiles at him and
he takes the paper and gives him

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a tip and walks on his way.
The little boy, never says,

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thank you.
The little boy never Smiles.

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The never little boy, never
appreciate that.

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He got paid two and a half times
the price of the paper.

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He just stabbed the money as
POC, paper paper and this

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happens every day, I’m New
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Don’t usually talk to each
other.

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Another fellow who rides the
same subway, follows him up

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every morning and finally said
pardon me, mister I noticed

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every day.
You’re so nice to that

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miserable.
Little brat of a newspaper.

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Why are you so nice to that?
Little boy, who never says,

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thank you, never acknowledges
your tip.

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Faces.
I’m not going to let that little

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boy.
Tell me how to act. but you

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know, we do you be nice to me,
I’ll be nice to you and I feel

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embarrassed you So, we’re simply
reacting and Jesus is teaching

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us not to do that.
We are kind even to those that

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are ugly, thankful and that’s
the lesson that we’re trying to

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drive home here.
We’ve got to grow up and we

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don’t treat people the way they
treat us.

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We treat people the way we ought
to treat them the way we would

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like to be treated.
Not how we are treated.

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And so in Luke chapter 6, some
favorite verses of mine.

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Jesus is talking to us and
coming in at verse 27.

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He tells us I say unto you,
which hear Is that you?

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I’m talking to you, who here are
you listening?

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Jesus is saying, love your
enemies.

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Do good to them, which hate you
bless them, that curse you pay

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for them.
Despitefully use you.

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And in the smite thee on the One
Cheek offer.

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Also the other him that taketh
away thy cloak forbid, not to

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take that coat.
Also give to every man that

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asketh of thee and of him that
taketh away, thy Goods, ask them

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not again.
This is not normal that people

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don’t do this.
There’s turn the other cheek is

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Phrase that the whole world is
heard, but nobody does it.

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Do we?
And if you were that meant as

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you would that men should do to
you.

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Do you also to the not as they
do to you as you would that they

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do for if you love them that
love you what?

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Thank you?
You Sinners, do that.

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If you just lend to those that
lender you Sinners, do that.

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Now, the bottom line of this is
down in verse 38, give and it

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shall be given unto you good
measure pressed down shaken

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together and running over.
Shall men give into your bosom

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for with the same measure that
you meet with all shall be

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measured to you again.
Have you ever considered the

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limited mercy of God?
And people might say, wait, wait

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a minute, you are really off the
rails.

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That’s false Doctrine and you
would probably take me to Psalm

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103 to prove how wrong I am.
As far as the East is from the

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West so far, has he removed our
transgressions from us?

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You know, that verse proves the
Earth is round?

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And did you ever think if God
had said through David?

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As far as the north is from the
south, You start the South Pole,

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keep going north even on the
North.

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00:29:23,700 –> 00:29:26,200
You all said you go south again.
You keep going south, you ran

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00:29:26,200 –> 00:29:29,800
out of South you in order.
But you go, you start East and

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00:29:30,000 –> 00:29:33,500
wait till you hit West, you
never going to run into it.

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It’s in this.
And so Davidson as far as the

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East is from the West so far,
has he removed our

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transgressions from which makes
you say, God’s Mercy is

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unlimited, and I come back and
say, What is it?

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And not of Mercy, you will
receive.

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Is amount of Mercy.
Not immersed that you give is

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amount of Mercy.
You will receive And that’s what

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Jesus just said.
With the same measure that you

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meet with all shall be measured
to you again and so it.

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Do you want to receive Mercy
from Jesus?

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00:30:15,500 –> 00:30:20,700
When he comes you better be
showing a lot of Mercy to each

447
00:30:20,700 –> 00:30:24,700
other now because if you make
the your brothers, are you toe

448
00:30:24,700 –> 00:30:27,200
the line up telling you?
This is the way it is and don’t

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00:30:27,200 –> 00:30:28,900
you deviate from it?
And I’m not going to give you an

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00:30:28,900 –> 00:30:31,300
inch, you probably take a mile
if I do.

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You’re showing no mercy.
You’re not going to get

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00:30:36,100 –> 00:30:42,200
anywhere.
So we as a family need to grow

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up and show Mercy to people who
don’t deserve it.

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Because God is kind to the
unthankful and to the holy and

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that’s what Jesus said.
Love your enemies and do good

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and lend hoping for nothing
again, and your reward shall be

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great, you should be the
children of the highest for God,

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is kind unto the unthankful and
to the evil be ye therefore

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merciful as your father is
merciful.

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So is his Mercy unlimited.
Yes, it really is so long as our

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Mercy is unlimited, but the
amount of Mercy you limit to

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people that, you know, that’s
got my much Mercy, you’re going

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00:31:28,000 –> 00:31:31,500
to be shown.
When you stand before your lord

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in judgment.
And so we are a family.

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A large family of brothers and
sisters and many of us are

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00:31:45,100 –> 00:31:47,000
gathered in this room this
evening.

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Now, it’s not uncommon for
family members to sometimes

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disagree with each other,
sometimes they even have falling

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out with each other, and that’s
very sad.

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We need to be reconciled.
We never go to bed angry.

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If you have had a problem with a
brother or sister makeup

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apologize, even if you’re not
wrong, apologize.

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00:32:07,300 –> 00:32:09,400
Sorry, you’re sorry.
You’re hurt them whether he’s

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00:32:09,400 –> 00:32:11,200
wrong and I’m right.
Of course you would be right,

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00:32:11,200 –> 00:32:13,100
who would you would think you’d
be wrong?

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00:32:15,100 –> 00:32:18,500
But even when you’re in the
right, you allow yourself to be

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00:32:18,500 –> 00:32:22,400
the fraud.
We want to live in harmony with

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each other. but as much as we
want that to be true, it won’t

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00:32:30,100 –> 00:32:35,700
always be true because there are
some who will not obey the Lord

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00:32:36,700 –> 00:32:41,200
and Jesus had the same
experience that we’re facing.

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Because in John chapter 7, verse
5 were told that even Christ own

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Brothers Did not believe in him.
Now, that’s hard to believe that

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his own flesh and blood blood
brothers.

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Did not believe that they
believe that that he was Jesus,

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00:33:01,000 –> 00:33:04,300
but they didn’t believe that he
was the savior of the world.

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00:33:06,400 –> 00:33:12,000
And yet.
He was kind of them. and good

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00:33:12,000 –> 00:33:19,400
news is that after his death
They were converted, James is

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oldest half, brother became the
Beloved Apostle, who wrote the

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Epistle of James, and another
younger.

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Half-brother Jude wrote our book
of Jude.

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00:33:32,600 –> 00:33:36,900
So One lesson to learn in this
is we never give up.

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I’ll members of our family are
members that we known that just

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00:33:41,900 –> 00:33:45,800
have not embraced the truth.
Have not been baptized yet.

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Never never give up on them.
But we want to tell a story and

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00:33:51,900 –> 00:33:56,700
then tied into a lesson on
families as we draw our thoughts

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00:33:56,700 –> 00:34:00,600
to a close and the story, it’s a
true story.

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00:34:01,500 –> 00:34:04,600
It has to do with a it’s an
ancient history story, it’s a

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history as a lesson in history,
people think that history is

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boring but it isn’t what
happened yesterday.

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00:34:10,800 –> 00:34:13,000
You still history might have
been very excited.

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00:34:13,000 –> 00:34:16,300
What happened you yesterday?
Its history But has to do with a

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man named Alexander.
The Great.

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00:34:21,199 –> 00:34:24,600
And he was the greatest General
some say even now that ever

504
00:34:24,600 –> 00:34:30,800
lived he conquered the known
world in his early thirties and

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00:34:30,800 –> 00:34:34,500
when he would have a battle and
be Victorious and he was always

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winning.
He was celebrated the end of the

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00:34:37,400 –> 00:34:41,400
day when the battle was over
with his generals and his

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officers.
And they would party.

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00:34:46,600 –> 00:34:50,100
And they would bring into
Alexander, any soldiers who had

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00:34:50,100 –> 00:34:55,600
done some great heroic deed and
tell Alexander this man did

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00:34:55,600 –> 00:34:57,200
this.
And that and he would pin a

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medal on them and those soldiers
would give their life to have

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Alexander put a metal on their
chest.

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And go off being so pleased that
they’ve been recognized for

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00:35:09,200 –> 00:35:14,000
their bravery.
But he had a after they got

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through rewarding the good guys,
if there was anyone who had been

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00:35:19,900 –> 00:35:23,700
negligent in his duty, it would
also bring those in before

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00:35:23,700 –> 00:35:28,000
Alexander and they would recite
his crime.

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00:35:28,200 –> 00:35:34,200
His offense, and Alexander would
normally say, execute whom he

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would.
He kept alive of whom he would,

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00:35:36,200 –> 00:35:38,900
he slew?
Those words are referred in

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00:35:38,900 –> 00:35:40,300
Daniel.
Not that Alexander.

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00:35:40,300 –> 00:35:45,600
But they applied to He had no
judge and jury, he was it, what

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00:35:45,600 –> 00:35:48,100
he said.
And so on one particular

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00:35:48,100 –> 00:35:52,100
evening, they brought in a young
Soldier, he’s in, he’s just late

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00:35:52,100 –> 00:35:56,500
teens and 18, 19 years old and
he had left his guard post

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00:35:56,500 –> 00:36:01,200
during battle, and he was not
where you’re supposed to be, and

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00:36:01,200 –> 00:36:05,300
they captured him and they
brought him in to Alexander to

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00:36:05,300 –> 00:36:07,800
tell Alexander what this young
man had done.

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00:36:08,200 –> 00:36:12,700
Now, the young man thought he
had between Five and ten minutes

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to live, because soon as they
recited his crimes to Alexander

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00:36:17,300 –> 00:36:20,900
is a Kelly, they take him out
and he’d be dead.

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00:36:22,300 –> 00:36:24,600
So, they bring this young man
in, and he’s so upset, he’s

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00:36:24,600 –> 00:36:26,500
crying.
And he can’t walk.

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00:36:26,500 –> 00:36:28,900
So, they’ve got his arms around
to soldiers and they’re dragging

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00:36:28,900 –> 00:36:31,200
him in like this, and he’s
sobbing like that.

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00:36:31,300 –> 00:36:32,500
When they bring him in, for all,
he’s done.

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00:36:32,600 –> 00:36:35,600
They let go of a just Falls flat
on his face right in front of

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00:36:35,607 –> 00:36:38,700
Alexander.
He slang their prostate sobbing

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00:36:38,700 –> 00:36:41,000
knowing that he doesn’t have
minutes to live.

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00:36:41,400 –> 00:36:45,200
And they said to Alexander the
Great, this young man left his

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00:36:45,200 –> 00:36:49,300
guard post in battle.
And they just expect me to say

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00:36:49,700 –> 00:36:50,600
take him away.
Kill him.

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00:36:51,400 –> 00:36:53,200
Maybe Alexander was in a good
mood that night.

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00:36:53,200 –> 00:36:55,800
We don’t know why he did this
differently.

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00:36:55,800 –> 00:36:57,900
But he said soldier, what’s your
name?

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00:36:59,300 –> 00:37:02,100
And the soldiers lying on the
ground, lift up his head.

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00:37:04,700 –> 00:37:08,500
Alexander sir.
Well, this great General went

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00:37:08,500 –> 00:37:12,100
into our rage, he’s a soldier.
I said, what’s your name?

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00:37:13,400 –> 00:37:16,600
He reached out and he grabs him
and he’d be just what’s your

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00:37:16,600 –> 00:37:20,400
name?
Alexander sir.

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00:37:20,800 –> 00:37:25,900
Yes, that’s my name.
He’s a soldier.

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00:37:25,900 –> 00:37:31,800
I’m going to let you live.
But from now on change your name

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00:37:32,200 –> 00:37:37,700
or change the way you live, he
gave him a shot of the soldiers

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00:37:37,700 –> 00:37:42,700
grabbed him and took him away.
Then what’s the point of the

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00:37:42,700 –> 00:37:46,400
story?
What do we call ourselves?

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00:37:46,400 –> 00:37:48,600
What what’s the name on the wall
outside?

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00:37:48,600 –> 00:37:52,700
Which is what this group called.
Kristen Ali?

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00:37:52,900 –> 00:37:57,000
What does that mean?
Christ Brothers.

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00:37:59,800 –> 00:38:05,700
Alexander didn’t want, the do
not want a young soldier named

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00:38:05,700 –> 00:38:10,700
Alexander.
Acting in a cowardly way.

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00:38:12,400 –> 00:38:19,100
That’s my name, you live up to
my name or change your name.

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00:38:21,000 –> 00:38:23,000
And you want to call yourself a
Christian delphian.

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00:38:23,900 –> 00:38:30,900
Come to Mark chapter 3, please.
Because this is the Lord Jesus

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00:38:30,900 –> 00:38:34,000
talking and this lesson has to
do with families that has to do

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00:38:34,000 –> 00:38:37,900
with us growing up.
And in Mark chapter 3.

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00:38:45,200 –> 00:38:51,700
We’ll start in, at verse. 31.
Well.

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00:38:53,600 –> 00:38:57,400
We’re starting at verse 20, the
multitude came together so that

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00:38:57,400 –> 00:38:59,300
they could not so much as eat
bread.

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And when his family, King James
says, says friends but other

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00:39:07,000 –> 00:39:11,100
versions say, family heard of
it, they went out to lay, hold

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00:39:11,100 –> 00:39:14,700
on him for they said he is
beside himself in modern

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00:39:14,700 –> 00:39:19,400
version, say he is crazy that
now, who is this?

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00:39:19,600 –> 00:39:22,500
This is the family of Jesus.
Now don’t forget.

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00:39:22,500 –> 00:39:24,900
They didn’t believe in him.
They loved him, but they didn’t

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00:39:24,900 –> 00:39:29,800
believe in him.
Now they ever even got the

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00:39:29,800 –> 00:39:33,800
mother of Jesus Christ on their
side.

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00:39:35,900 –> 00:39:40,000
We will see that just a minute
because in verse 21 they have

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00:39:40,000 –> 00:39:43,700
come to him to, what were they
going to do?

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00:39:44,300 –> 00:39:48,800
They were going to lay hold on
him you see his brothers and his

581
00:39:48,800 –> 00:39:53,200
sisters said to Mary you know,
he’s beside himself, he’s not

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00:39:53,200 –> 00:39:55,400
taking care of himself.
He doesn’t even it says it says

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00:39:55,400 –> 00:39:58,400
you didn’t have time to eat.
He’s not getting enough rest.

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00:39:58,400 –> 00:40:01,400
He’s not getting enough food and
you know mothers.

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00:40:01,400 –> 00:40:04,200
Are you mothers?
You know how you want to make

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00:40:04,200 –> 00:40:07,400
sure your children get enough?
Rest of you, get enough food and

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00:40:07,400 –> 00:40:11,200
so they’re all concerned that
Jesus is going to harm his

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00:40:11,200 –> 00:40:13,600
health.
He’s not taking care of himself,

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00:40:13,600 –> 00:40:15,700
so we’re going to go and get
Jesus.

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00:40:15,900 –> 00:40:18,100
We’re going to lay hold on him.
We’re going to take him home and

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00:40:18,100 –> 00:40:20,900
give him a good cup of hot soup
and putting to bed.

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00:40:21,900 –> 00:40:24,800
I mean, this is, this is what
the family is, and they got

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00:40:24,800 –> 00:40:28,400
married involved in it.
And so it come down to verse 31.

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Now, the thing is that So many
people had come to listen to

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00:40:33,500 –> 00:40:39,500
Jesus, that the room was packed.
And when she gets to the back of

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00:40:39,508 –> 00:40:45,500
the house, she goes in the back
door and it’s full of people all

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00:40:45,500 –> 00:40:49,600
listening to Jesus.
Everyone’s eyes on Jesus as he’s

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00:40:49,600 –> 00:40:53,800
talking to them and there’s his
mother in the back and you know

599
00:40:54,100 –> 00:40:59,000
and she yeah yeah.
Who Jesus is it mother?

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00:40:59,100 –> 00:41:07,500
I’m back here that we, you know
how mothers are I’m she loved

601
00:41:07,500 –> 00:41:09,400
him now.
Herbie his brothers and sisters,

602
00:41:09,400 –> 00:41:13,600
also loved him.
They didn’t believe in him, but

603
00:41:13,600 –> 00:41:16,800
they loved him.
And they’re trying to take him

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00:41:16,800 –> 00:41:19,200
by force.
Take him away.

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00:41:20,800 –> 00:41:24,600
And Jesus knew him because Jesus
could read minds.

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00:41:25,100 –> 00:41:29,000
He knew why they were there.
He knew what they wanted to do.

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00:41:29,600 –> 00:41:33,800
And there she is and they can’t
even get in his mother’s.

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00:41:33,800 –> 00:41:38,400
Brothers were standing outside
and so they sent to him call him

609
00:41:38,700 –> 00:41:41,900
and the crowd was sitting about
him and you can just picture

610
00:41:41,900 –> 00:41:44,700
now, Mary’s at the back of the
room there, and all of you

611
00:41:44,700 –> 00:41:47,300
people are here and Jesus is up
in front.

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00:41:48,200 –> 00:41:50,600
And she’s trying to get his
attention and he’s paying node.

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00:41:50,600 –> 00:41:53,300
He’s just talking to you.
He’s so engrossed in trying to

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00:41:53,308 –> 00:41:58,400
help you people be saved.
He is, he is, he is totally

615
00:41:58,400 –> 00:42:01,800
committed to the people that are
listening to him, and people who

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00:42:01,800 –> 00:42:02,800
don’t have time to listen to
you.

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00:42:03,100 –> 00:42:05,700
He’s not paying attention, he’s
paying attention those who do

618
00:42:06,500 –> 00:42:09,300
and she can’t get his attention.
So she Taps the fell on the

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00:42:09,300 –> 00:42:12,700
back, their shoulders.
A, what do you want?

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00:42:12,800 –> 00:42:15,700
I’m, I’m his mayor of mother.
Would you tell him?

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00:42:15,700 –> 00:42:17,600
I’m back here.
Okay.

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00:42:17,800 –> 00:42:24,100
So all the way up this, what do
you want his mother’s back?

623
00:42:24,100 –> 00:42:26,400
You’re telling the family in the
front row.

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00:42:27,400 –> 00:42:29,900
Someone says, oh Jesus, that’s
I’m not making this up.

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00:42:29,900 –> 00:42:35,600
This is right here in the Bible
verse 32, the crowd was sitting

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00:42:35,600 –> 00:42:37,900
about him and they said in here
your mother and your brothers

627
00:42:37,900 –> 00:42:39,800
are outside asking for you and
your pride.

628
00:42:40,600 –> 00:42:44,600
So finally you see when you give
me the word, your mother’s back

629
00:42:44,600 –> 00:42:48,400
there, She’s home.
So really, you know, he’s got,

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00:42:48,900 –> 00:42:53,400
I’m home.
What does the Bible say?

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00:42:53,400 –> 00:42:57,300
He did.
Let’s read it.

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00:42:58,900 –> 00:43:04,900
First 33, he replied.
Who are my mother?

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00:43:05,900 –> 00:43:09,900
And my brothers.
He did not look.

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00:43:11,000 –> 00:43:16,500
Back at his own mother and his
family who were trying to get

635
00:43:16,500 –> 00:43:20,300
him and take him away from doing
God’s work because they loved

636
00:43:20,300 –> 00:43:21,800
him.
They thought they were doing

637
00:43:21,800 –> 00:43:24,000
what was right for him, but they
were wrong, you see?

638
00:43:24,700 –> 00:43:27,200
And he looked around.
He says he didn’t look at them.

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00:43:27,200 –> 00:43:33,500
He looked at you he’s just here.
Here are my mother and my

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00:43:33,500 –> 00:43:39,600
brothers for whoever does the
will of God is my brother and

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00:43:39,600 –> 00:43:42,500
sister.
And mother.

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00:43:44,000 –> 00:43:48,100
And are we getting the point?
You call yourself a Christian

643
00:43:48,100 –> 00:43:51,100
delphian that means brother of
Christ.

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00:43:52,100 –> 00:43:55,200
Jesus says, who is my mother?
Who are my brothers?

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00:43:55,200 –> 00:44:00,400
Who are my sisters, those who
call themselves by my name, it’s

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00:44:00,400 –> 00:44:03,000
wonderful to be called a
christadelphians, but you know

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what that means.
It means you have to live up to

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the name.
Alexander said change your name

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or change the way you live the
Lord.

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Jesus Christ is saying You’re
not my mother.

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You’re not my brother, you’re
not my sister.

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If you don’t do my command, the
will of God, commands of God.

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so, you see, Even the family of
Jesus, that one point.

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Needed to be converted and
that’s why we’re talking so long

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about what do you want to be
when you grow up?

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We all have some growing up
still to do, no matter how long

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we’ve been in the truth.
We still need to grow up more

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that all the same, some are more
fully grown than others but

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there’s no one in this room who
has all.

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None of us know what we ought to
know, says, Paul.

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We all are leaky vessels and
that’s why we come to meetings.

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Like it’s why we do our bye.
Readings every day, we’re

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constantly have to replenish.
They are, we we want to live up

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to the name of Christ Christ.
Brother, Christ sister.

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And if we stop doing what he
said, then change your name.

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Or change the way you live.
And so, My beloved brother and

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sisters of the Lord Jesus
Christ.

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I’m so thankful that you came to
see evening.

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I’m so thankful that you’re
willing to grow up in love.

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By being more like your elder
brother.

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Jesus Christ, you don’t react to
What other people’s do to you.

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You do what’s right.
No matter what they do, because

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that’s what Jesus did.
And he always return good for

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evil. he prayed for those who
crucified him, He asked, God to

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forgive them for the most
terrible crime has ever been

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committed on one human being by
another to murder the son of

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God.
And he still asked, God to

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forgive them. and so no matter
what someone has done to you, no

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matter who may have wronged you
And you’re 100%, right?

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And they’re 100% wrong.
You forgive, you allow

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yourselves to be defrauded, you
try to live like Jesus, you

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don’t stand up for your rights.
You don’t have any you you bow

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to others and try to help them,
even if they’re opposing

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themselves as Paul.
To truly grow up. and be like

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Jesus means to crucify this
flesh of ours and show love.

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As he did.
Beloved.

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We are children of God.
Right now. but it does not

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appear what we shall be but we
know that when Jesus comes We

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shall be like him.
For we shall see him as he is.