Dev Ramcharan – Class 5: Fear and Obey God

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This is day.
Five of the 2022 Palm Springs

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Bible School.
Our second period teachers for

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the dev Ram.
SRI Ram is jeannot topic.

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Is the whole duty of man.
Today’s topic is fear and obey.

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God rather deaf Well, the last
class, it’s always a little bit

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sad, isn’t it?
But at the same time, we look

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forward to seeing our home,
seeing our loved ones back home.

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So there’s that to balance
things out, right?

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So we will start then at the
beginning of chapter 10, And the

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beginning of chapter 10, we have
written.

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Dead flies cause the ointment of
the Apothecary to send forth a

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stinking saver.
That’s hard for us to relate to

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because you think of leaving
some Jurgens on a saucer in your

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bathroom.
If a fly fell in it, nothing

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would happen.
But in those days, when

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pointment was made the way it
was made, if a fly fell in there

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would be rapid deterioration and
it would smell pretty bad,

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pretty quickly.
So, something that was intended

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to make you smell good would
actually not have that effect.

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And what are you saying, is
this?

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Just like that little fly
falling into a vat or a

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container of ointment can make
the whole thing smell bad.

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So a little Folly and the
revised version says, so Dolph a

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little falling out way wisdom
and honor.

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Okay.
Now, we have in our community,

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The Cult of the speaker.
There’s something we need to be

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on guard against because
speakers are not different to us

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speakers have as big, a circus
in their personal lives as you

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do in yours.
There is as much Brokenness

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there is, as much challenge,
sometimes even more because

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they’re our speaker.
Who are they going to tell their

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problems to your speaker?
You’re supposed to be that the

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to do, whatever comes after that
and the Ellipsis, right?

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The fact of the matter is this
The only difference between a

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speaker and everyone else is
there up there, speaking to you

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about something.
They’ve done a little bit of

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study on, it’s not that they’ve
lived.

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It, it’s not that they’ve
achieved it, it’s not that their

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life is a spiritual Cut Above
yours.

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Don’t put anyone on a pedestal.
because it’s a part of us that

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is ready to bury that person
beneath the pedestal as soon as

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they show their Humanity, their
weakness or Frailty, their

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inconsistencies, there
hypocrisies their play-acting,

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their problems, their
challenges, their difficulties

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When we put people on a
pedestal, you know, the effect

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it has on us, we don’t have to
listen to them.

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Because that brother that is
he’s he’s he’s up there

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spiritually.
He can do those things but I I

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can’t live like that.
I can’t do that.

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I can’t live the way he’s asking
me too.

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But with that brother is looking
at you at eye level, not

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elevated.
Not some kind of higher life

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form then it’s more
uncomfortable for you because

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then it’s just somebody who’s
just like you telling you what?

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Scripture says then we can’t
ignore it by saying well, he’s a

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spiritual person up there and
I’m not Then we have to take it

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on board and say well he’s
struggling, I’m struggling and

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all he’s telling me is what the
word of God says.

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And I really don’t want to hear
this right now because it hurts

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So we don’t put them on
pedestals.

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The other thing is this, I have
been a Gatherings where A

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prominent brother has walked
away from the truth and

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announced he no longer believes
in the Bible.

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He’s not even sure if God exists
two or three families were in

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shock for the rest of that
fraternal weekend because they

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were so close to this brother,
they looked up to him so much,

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he was so valued and treasured
by them.

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That when he made that move,
their world fell apart and no

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one’s World should fall apart,
because someone makes a mistake.

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the other thing is this, Because
you find a dead fly in,

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somebody’s ointment.
Does that mean that they were

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worthless?
And that who they were was

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rubbish.
That everything you learn from

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them was garbage and that you
can.

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Now throw them on the rubbish
dump of those who are the

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rejected and and nonentities in
the truth.

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No, that only happens if we are
foolishly putting people on a

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pedestal, if we don’t, Then we
accept the fact that people have

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flaws and things will fall
apart.

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Sometimes, they’ll fall apart in
a shameful way.

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If you were to uncover my head,
this bald head of mine.

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And look inside it, you would
run as far away as you could

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run.
You would and if I did that to

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you, I might have the same
reaction to.

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So let’s accept that.
What we are made of is broken,

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it’s faulty, it fails and in
spite of all that be encouraged

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by each other.
Out of the word without putting

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anyone on a pedestal.
And when somebody comes to tell

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you about the fly, they
discovered in brother or sister

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exes pointment You need to have
a quiet word with them and say,

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look.
She helped me a lot when I was

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going through my marriage
problems and you may have just

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found something else out about
her private life, but that does

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not reduce the value that that
sister has to me.

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So I would thank you to not be
talking about that with people.

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all right, you know this
telephone And then there’s Tela

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christadelphians.
And tell a christadelphians

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spreads bad news faster than a
telephone ever did.

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And we need to, we need to be
ashamed of that and do something

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about it.
So A little Folly, doesn’t even

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have to be baked a little Folly
can destroy someone’s reputation

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completely.
A wise man’s heart.

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Is that his right hand?
The place of strength, Lord,

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Jesus is sitting at his father’s
right hand.

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You turn to the right and you
you confer with the person who’s

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on your right.
So for a wise man, Wisdom is

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something that he values highly.
But there are people who are the

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opposite of that.
They’re not in this room.

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Do not people who believe
they’re people who are in the

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world.
Now, we’re going to drop way

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down in chapter 10.
And we’ll get to the end of the

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chapter.
I just look at it briefly, very,

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very briefly. and this is for
me, this is what I was doing

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when I was corrected gently by a
brother who pulled me up short

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verse 20, Curse, not Donald
Trump.

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No, not in your thought curse,
not the rich in thy bed chamber

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for a bird of the air, shall
carry the voice, and that, which

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hath Wings shall tell the
matter.

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All right, so that’s the king,
that’s the president, that’s

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whatever.
But what about each other?

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Do we badmouth our brothers and
sisters that we disagree with or

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dislike or feel hurt by or
insulted by?

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Do we do that.
Well, what this is saying is, is

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don’t do that.
It’s not a good thing to do.

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It’s not the right thing to do.
Gossip bad-mouthing.

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These are things that we do in a
state of mind.

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That is less than spiritual.
The more that we gossip, the

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more we make other people’s
faults, failings and, and

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inconsistencies the matter of
our conversation.

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The more we’re trying to hide
our own from ourselves and from

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other people.
And so, the point is that we do

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what we can to not do that.
And to remind each other not to

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do that.
Likewise We all know that one

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person who all that they do is
Gossip, it’s as if that’s who

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they become their gossip from
from, from from, from top to

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toe.
They come at you and have some,

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you know, what, brother, such
and such.

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He’s having an affair.
Did you know that?

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I just found out poor sister
such and such isn’t that

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terrible, right?
And some people keep a secret,

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this is how they keep it.
They only tell one person at a

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time.
By limiting, is the one person,

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they’re keeping the secret.
So I mean there’s a silly things

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but they can they can burn
people’s lives down to the

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ground.
Tongue can become a fire.

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That destroys James tells us so
we have to be mindful that we

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all have it in us, especially if
we nurse a grudge against

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someone else for whatever
reason.

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We can we can take Delight in
their demise and they’re in

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their failings.
And those times when they met

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Fallen skin, their knees All
right, then.

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Don’t curse the king and let’s
be careful we say about each

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other.
Now, verse 11, verse verse 1 of

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chapter. 11, says, cast your
bread, upon the waters, For you

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shall find it after many days.
Give a portion to seven and also

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to eight but I know it’s not
what evil shall be upon the

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Earth.
There are two main ways of

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interpreting that the one way,
is this be generous, be

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generous, be generous to all
kinds of people, in all kinds of

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ways because you don’t know when
your life is going to need

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someone else’s generosity to
help you, and to look after you,

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and that’s, that’s one valid way
of looking at it.

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Now, another way has to do is
interesting when I read this

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with on never thought of it that
way, it’s about what you invest

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in financially.
Right?

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So there are Brethren who have
put all of the money they had

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into some Technology stock which
they thought was going to turn

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them into kazillion, Aires.
Only to find that it turned them

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into nothing Aires.
Right?

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And they and they lost
everything.

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They lost everything.
And so what this is saying that

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interpretation goes this way is
invested diverse things.

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Not just in the one kind of
investment.

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I choose the previous
interpretation, but that is

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still useful, advice.
It could be seen that.

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That’s what it could be saying
to.

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Don’t put all your eggs in one
basket.

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The old saying goes because if
you drop the basket, no more

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eggs.
All right.

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Says, if the clouds be full of
rain, they empty themselves upon

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the Earth.
And if a tree fall toward the

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South or toward the North, in
the place, where the tree

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falleth, there it shall be.
You look at that.

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You think?
That’s like saying wherever you

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go.
There you are.

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Does that mean anything?
Wherever you go?

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There you are.
Where the tree fell their it

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fell.
Well, the sensible sort of way

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of looking at it is You know
things happen and we just have

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to live with what has happened.
We can’t unhappen some of the

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things that happen in our lives
and in our kids lives and our

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grandkids lives, things happen,
we have to, we have to address

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life with that thing that has
happened.

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You know, sometimes things
happen and we want to pretend,

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they didn’t really happen and
act like they didn’t happen and

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just look past them and, you
know, squint one eye, and keep

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the other eye open.
So we can’t see the Over there

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that has happened.
Well, what this thing is saying,

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is Well for trees.
Fall in love.

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There it is.
It’s Fallen.

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It’s not upright like it.
Once was If something has

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happened in somebody’s life.
Well, that’s now a part of their

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life.
Now for our friends in the truth

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and they fall on Hard Times,
we’re happy to go in and help.

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But when they fall into shameful
sins, that become public, what

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do we tend to do?
I should point out to Jeff that

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phone that’s ringing.
It’s outside of this room.

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It’s not somebody in here.
When something shameful happens

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in someone else’s life. then the
effect it can have on us is We

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walk away from them.
We say, you know what?

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That’s disgusting.
I can’t believe you did a thing

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like that.
When they need us the very most

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in their time of Shame of loss
of embarrassment of humiliation.

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That’s when we feel like we want
to walk away from them.

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Now, I’m not saying that you sit
with your friends, say, you know

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what?
Now, you’ve got this disease

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because of your behavior.
It’s okay, there’s nothing wrong

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with that, that’s not.
What is what we required to do?

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They look, I I can understand
how you got yourself in this

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place, but I want you to know
I’m still here to help.

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And to encourage you.
And I’m especially here to to

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walk beside you to bring you
back to the truth if that’s what

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you need me to do.
As christadelphians, we

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sometimes feel as if that person
sin is going to Splash up on me

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and I’m going to be defiled by
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And it’s not the way things
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You already have your own
splashing up going on inside of

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you already as it is. but if we,
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And to continue to encourage
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shameful sin.
Like the tree that has fallen

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and there it is.
Now you’ve got to contend with

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that thing as it is.
Not as you thought it off to me.

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Then we can do a lot of good.
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One of the saddest things to see
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Is a sister or a brother who has
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Come to the meeting.
No one sitting beside them at

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all.
The whole row emptied really or

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people sitting at the ends of
the row rather than interacting

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with them or engaging with them.
Because we think they don’t

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deserve our friendship, given
what they’ve done, but think

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about us.
And the fact that a man gave his

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life for us, with all our
faults, all our failings,

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everything that we think and say
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He saw the fallen tree that we
were, and still gave his life

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for us on a tree that we might
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As though we can look at this
little work a day, you know,

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expression and draw out of it.
Dealing with the things that

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happen.
With common sense and spiritual

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wisdom.
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avoiding them or running away
from them. goes on, and he says,

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Verse 5.
As thou, knowest not what is the

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way of the wind?
You don’t know where it’s going

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and what it’s doing, nor how the
bones do grow in the womb of

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her, that is with child even.
So thou knowest, not the work of

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God.
Who does all to see how that

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theme keeps coming through.
It’s not to make us think I well

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I could never understand God.
Therefore I could never have a

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relationship with him.
It’s intended to give us the

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sense that I can’t work out
exactly what he’s doing when

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things are happening or when
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But I know I’m in his hand.
He loves me.

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He loves my family.
I need to trust in him and hold

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on to him as I go through this
roller coaster ride.

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This bungee cord.
Jump that my life can sometimes

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be you don’t know what he’s
doing, but hold on to him.

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In the morning.
So you seed the evening, Don’t

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don’t withhold your hand keep
working for.

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Thou knowest, not.
Whether shall prosper either

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this or that or whether they
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Good.
So it’s using the the language

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of crops and agriculture.
But what it’s saying is this be

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busy Be doing, we apply to
occlusal life be busy, doing

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things in the truth.
We’ve got a fearful problem

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happening all around the Western
world, It is getting harder and

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harder.
To get young men and women to

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help in the Ecclesia, the work
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We’re finding you’ll ask 10
people. if they would do a

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particular kind of work and only
one will say yes, And what’s the

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reason you’re hearing, I’m too
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This that I have all these
things on the go.

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Now, that has always been the
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We have always been too busy,
every one of us for every

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generation.
But we’ve made the Ecclesia a

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priority.
We’ve made the work of the

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Ecclesia.
An important thing that we do.

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And we’ve got to pray and try to
have conversations with our

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young brothers and sisters, many
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Some even older than that to get
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Now, a part of the problem,
could be the sense that.

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Well, I don’t feel like I get
anything out of the Ecclesia and

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the Bible class and the
afternoon lectures and the Bible

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schools, and the study we gets,
I’ll get anything out of that.

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Do you see how that attitude is
the same as my friend who left

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his wife?
I’m not happy.

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I don’t get happiness out of all
that.

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I don’t feel like I’m
entertained or, you know, I

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don’t get something out of it.
So why should I be involved in

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that work?
my friend had terrible regrets

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about the breakup of his
marriage after We don’t want to

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stand at the judgement seat and
have to answer to the Lord about

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those things.
We didn’t do and could have So

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let’s get involved.
Now you are involved, but for

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your children, your
grandchildren encourage them to

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get involved.
Now, I don’t know if there be

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success.
I don’t know if things will

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suddenly turn around but we can
still make some kind of an

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effort.
I’ve got three daughters two

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were baptized one left, one
still in and very, very

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committed.
And one never was baptized.

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Now as a dad mum, you torture
yourself with those things could

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have done, this should have done
that, should have been home,

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more to deduct that a less
speaking around the place,

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etcetera, Etc.
But you know what?

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It happens to families.
Where everybody stayed at home

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all the time, too.
It just happens and we don’t

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know why and we don’t know how
but we know God is still at work

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where there isn’t life.
There is still hope he still at

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work. go further in that
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Truly the light is sweet and a
pleasant thing.

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It is for the eyes, to behold
the Sun.

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But if a man lived many years in
rejoice in the mall yet, let him

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remember the days of darkness
for they shall be many all that

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cometh his vanity and let’s not
be Smitten by that statement is

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if it’s a terrible pessimistic
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What he’s saying is work while
you can Well, you’ve got

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strength while you can still see
be busy, you’re going to have

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some health issue days where
you’re not going to be able to

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do those things.
So do them while you can’t.

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Look, you’re all on a Bible
School. how many Bible schools

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have got as many people in their
80s and their 70s and their

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90’s, and I should say in their
first century, as the school

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has, how many But you’re all
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That’s an amazing feat of
determination.

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I’ve decisiveness.
Of commitment.

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Of love.
That’s what that all is.

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It was a big bit of work that
you did to come here.

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Now, somebody who’s 50 has no
clue what it was like for you to

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walk from your room on the
second floor to the elevator or

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down the stairs to go and open a
door, they don’t get it.

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They don’t understand to open a
door is a big deal when you’re

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80 and Terrible arthritis.
They don’t realize that.

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So the work you’ve put into this
school only God knows.

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Just to be here.
To be busy at it and to listen

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and to love and to care, right?
And to notice things, I mean,

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Auntie Toni looked at my shirt
and she just said that has

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embroidery on it.
We have.

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Is that what that is?
Where’d you get that from Cuba,

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Cuba?
Why did you get that from Cuba?

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She said, I thought Fidel was
getting better, but he didn’t

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talking about Cuba.
That’s a lot of thoughts from

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one person’s brain, all
connected together very complex

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thinking, so don’t underestimate
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There’s a lot going on there,
you don’t realize, but there’s a

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lot more that they struggle with
in the way of pain and so on.

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And yet, in spite of all that
they are here, they are here old

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brother.
Paul from California is here,

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and you will never hear him.
Complain.

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Once about his chronic pain, not
once.

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People never say a word about
that, he’s just so glad to be

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here.
What an inspiration.

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That’s the greatest thing that
you have right now, when you

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think there’s nothing you can do
or give, you are an inspiration.

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To people who are younger than
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There are years.
Yes.

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Where there’s all these
struggles, and that’s where we

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need to be tender and
understanding and aware of what

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our brothers and sisters go
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Then he says, verse 9.
Rejoice O young man in your

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youth rejoice, in your youth.
Let your heart cheer you in the

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days of You Youth and walk in
the ways of your heart and the

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side of your eyes but no, you
need this to balance you out.

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Know that all these things for
all these things, God will bring

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you into judgment.
All right?

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Now, that’s not to terrify young
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It’s the just say, Don’t run the
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The world that you’re in, not do
whatever the world does all the

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time, like that.
Remember you have a higher a

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higher calling than they do?
Your brother in Christ, your

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sister in Christ, rejoice in
your Youth and make it something

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that you do useful, things with.
We’ve got some young people who

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are with us in the audience this
morning, they were her last

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night volunteering to sell food
cakes and so on.

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For the good of their school
that wonderful They’re doing

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exactly what scripture is
guiding them to do something

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useful and worthwhile with their
youth.

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It’s a wonderful thing really
wonderful thing.

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Rejoice, O young man in your
youth.

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Therefore verse 10 removes
sorrow from your heart and put

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away evil from your flesh. so,
what he’s saying is this there

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is evil that we can involve
ourselves in That is harmful to

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us, harmful to our flesh,
harmful to us as human beings.

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He says put those things away
from you.

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Because this world youth.
And the prime of Life are

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vanity.
And he’s not saying that your

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your time of life is useless and
worthless, he’s saying the

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tendency of this world and you
thin, it is to get involved in

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things that are useless.
But that’s not what we see with

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the young people that are here
who were here last night and

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continued with us.
They are an inspiration to us

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you as old brothers and sisters
look at them and it gives you

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Joy to see young people.
Busy, and the truth.

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It’s a lovely thing.
Remember now your creator in the

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days of your youth?
Before the evil days come and

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the years draw nigh.
When you’ll say, look, I have no

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pleasure in these days.
Sun light, the moon, the stars

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are darkened and the clouds
return.

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After the rain And then he
describes a very poetic

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language.
What?

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It’s like to grow old this
stuff.

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As it is, was never intended.
In this age, in this world to

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last forever.
People try, they try with

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plastics and the replacement of,
of joints, of, of body.

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Parts of of organs.
They try to extend life and

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it’ll only go so far.
It won’t take you on and on

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forever.
You know, I would not want to be

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200 years old, with the mind, I
have the brain.

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I have, would you want that know
what something better than

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what’s in there and it’ll only
come from the Lord one day. and

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so, so he says Remember there
are days that come where you

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say, I have no pleasure in them.
Well, you have the pleasure of

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the Gospel of the hope of
eternal life but getting up

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sitting down Mobility all these
things become much more

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difficult.
That’s what it’s saying is it’s

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talking about the Practical
reality of the aging process

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that we have to be mindful of.
And then he goes on and he talks

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about in verse 3 in the days
when the Keepers of the house

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shall tremble.
Now he’s using the image of a

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house that starting to Decay.
He’s talking about the pillars

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of the house that start to
tremble.

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Well, what’s that our legs?
Those strong muscles that start

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to become very frail and they
start to tremble right there he

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goes from there.
And he talks about these strong,

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00:29:29,800 –> 00:29:33,800
men would shall bow.
Themselves could be, our could

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00:29:33,800 –> 00:29:38,500
be our back could be, could be
our arms, could be our legs

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00:29:38,500 –> 00:29:41,700
again, but he’s talking about
areas of strength of the body

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00:29:41,700 –> 00:29:45,100
that are not strong anymore.
And then he talks about the

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00:29:45,100 –> 00:29:49,200
Grinders and the grinder cease
because they are few.

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I have a Manitoulin Island tooth
in my mouth.

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00:29:54,200 –> 00:29:57,200
What does that mean?
I gave a study weekend, Amanda

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00:29:57,400 –> 00:30:00,700
An island and had a breakfast at
brother and sisters house and

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00:30:00,700 –> 00:30:06,000
jumped and something that was
hard. for two or three months

442
00:30:06,000 –> 00:30:11,000
after I ignored it being a man
and all And treated myself with

443
00:30:11,100 –> 00:30:13,700
salt water.
Which did nothing but keep

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00:30:13,700 –> 00:30:16,300
swelling.
Down one day, I was feeling

445
00:30:16,300 –> 00:30:19,400
around the tooth and it was
split right down the middle.

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00:30:20,900 –> 00:30:24,000
So, I went into the dentist and
she didn’t even say a word, she

447
00:30:24,000 –> 00:30:29,200
just looked at me.
I said I know I should have come

448
00:30:29,200 –> 00:30:31,200
to you when it was just cracked
a tad.

449
00:30:31,200 –> 00:30:33,400
I did calm.
I did foolishly I.

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00:30:33,600 –> 00:30:38,600
That I she said yes and now
here’s your choice. $500 for a

451
00:30:38,600 –> 00:30:43,800
plate with a tooth sticking out
of it or five thousand dollars

452
00:30:44,000 –> 00:30:46,400
for a tooth we’re going to put
it on a post.

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00:30:47,500 –> 00:30:50,300
I said, well, I will now have a
false to thank you.

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00:30:51,700 –> 00:30:54,800
So if you hear a lot of shushing
and shushing going on as I speak

455
00:30:54,800 –> 00:30:59,300
to you, it’s not because I’m
Welsh talking like Sean Connery,

456
00:30:59,400 –> 00:31:03,500
for instance, it’s because I
have a false tooth.

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00:31:04,200 –> 00:31:07,000
So my Grinders aren’t what they
used to be.

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00:31:08,500 –> 00:31:12,600
Be careful what you eat by the
way for brother and sister would

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00:31:12,600 –> 00:31:14,600
be mortified if I actually told
them.

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00:31:15,300 –> 00:31:21,100
So the Grinders the sound of the
Grinders is low and he shall

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00:31:21,100 –> 00:31:24,400
rise up at the voice of a bird
and all the daughters of music

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00:31:24,400 –> 00:31:26,900
shall be brought low.
So what’s he saying the

463
00:31:26,900 –> 00:31:30,500
inconsistency of our old age
experience?

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00:31:31,200 –> 00:31:33,500
We can’t hear what our son is
telling us.

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00:31:34,000 –> 00:31:37,600
We can’t hear singing, But A
Bird Goes cheap in the morning.

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00:31:37,700 –> 00:31:39,000
We’re up.
A flash.

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00:31:39,900 –> 00:31:43,300
Isn’t that the truth and it’s so
weird but it’s what happens?

468
00:31:43,800 –> 00:31:48,600
So this is a description that is
so modern, isn’t it about what

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00:31:48,600 –> 00:31:51,600
happens to us?
Now this we already know is

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00:31:51,600 –> 00:31:54,700
older people.
This is for the young people to

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00:31:54,700 –> 00:31:58,500
pay attention to what he’s doing
is he’s starting off by saying,

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00:31:58,500 –> 00:32:01,000
enjoy your youth, but let me
tell you how it’s going to go,

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00:32:01,600 –> 00:32:06,400
how it’s going to go, right?
So when this young man finds his

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00:32:06,400 –> 00:32:10,100
beautiful young girl with her
Pretty soft skin and so on, her

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00:32:10,100 –> 00:32:12,600
Grinders are one day going to
fall out.

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00:32:14,100 –> 00:32:18,300
The pillars aren’t going to be
so strong, so it’s got to be

477
00:32:18,308 –> 00:32:21,700
something beyond what she looks
like that that that draws them

478
00:32:21,700 –> 00:32:27,500
together, right?
and so he goes on and he says,

479
00:32:28,300 –> 00:32:34,900
also when they shall be afraid
of that, which is high and fear

480
00:32:34,900 –> 00:32:38,500
shall be in the way.
So you’re walking along old

481
00:32:38,500 –> 00:32:41,200
brother or sister, and you see,
we have to climb three steps

482
00:32:41,900 –> 00:32:43,900
now, any of the rest of us, just
fly up there.

483
00:32:43,900 –> 00:32:48,600
Like goats you are taking your
time and assessing in your mind.

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00:32:49,100 –> 00:32:52,800
Can I make that first step?
Can I keep my balance?

485
00:32:53,700 –> 00:32:58,100
Am I going to falter?
And if I fall oh no, I could go

486
00:32:58,100 –> 00:32:59,700
to the hospital with a broken
hip.

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00:33:00,600 –> 00:33:03,100
This is the reality of this
stage of life.

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00:33:04,600 –> 00:33:08,400
And the Almond Tree shall
flourish and the grasshopper

489
00:33:08,400 –> 00:33:11,800
shall be a burden and desire
shall fail?

490
00:33:12,100 –> 00:33:15,700
Because man goes to his long
home, and the mourners go about

491
00:33:15,700 –> 00:33:19,300
the streets.
So, so what he’s saying is this

492
00:33:20,100 –> 00:33:24,500
one day, you will die.
There will be people morning

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00:33:24,500 –> 00:33:27,800
your death, and that’s reality.
No, it’s not a thing.

494
00:33:27,800 –> 00:33:30,900
We run around and Terror of,
that’s how people do it in

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00:33:31,100 –> 00:33:34,000
America, you hide death away,
you hide.

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00:33:34,000 –> 00:33:37,700
You want you the society, your
Hideaway death, your Hideaway

497
00:33:37,700 –> 00:33:42,200
old age of, put it far from you
as opposed to realizing no, no,

498
00:33:42,500 –> 00:33:47,700
no just accept it work with it.
Celebrate this stage of life to,

499
00:33:48,500 –> 00:33:54,000
it’s even more important than
use. and he goes on and he says,

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00:33:55,100 –> 00:34:01,500
or ever The silver cord be
loosed or the Golden Bowl, be

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00:34:01,500 –> 00:34:06,100
broken, or the pitcher be broken
at the fountain or the wheel

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00:34:06,300 –> 00:34:10,600
broken at the cistern.
What he’s saying is this?

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00:34:13,000 –> 00:34:16,800
All these useful things have a
moment where they break.

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00:34:18,900 –> 00:34:22,699
You have a lab that gives light
hanging of a silver cord, it’s

505
00:34:22,699 –> 00:34:26,699
made of gold precious thing.
All you need is one link to snap

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00:34:27,100 –> 00:34:32,500
done.
Smashed and he’s saying you

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00:34:32,500 –> 00:34:34,600
can’t predict when you are going
to die.

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00:34:36,199 –> 00:34:40,000
That day will come one day, so
before it happens.

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00:34:41,300 –> 00:34:43,699
Think about what you need to be
doing for your creator.

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00:34:45,199 –> 00:34:47,800
So, that means old brother or
sister.

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00:34:49,000 –> 00:34:51,100
You’re still a source of light
till the day you die.

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00:34:53,199 –> 00:34:57,400
You’re still a still a source of
the Water of Life, till the day

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00:34:57,400 –> 00:35:01,200
that you die.
All the way through to the day

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00:35:01,200 –> 00:35:05,000
that you die.
You are a useful person.

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00:35:05,600 –> 00:35:10,300
You are, you may not have
thought you were Our society

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00:35:10,300 –> 00:35:13,300
doesn’t make you think you are,
but boy, does Scripture make you

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00:35:13,400 –> 00:35:19,100
see the usefulness you have in
your old age.

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00:35:20,500 –> 00:35:24,300
Then he says verse 7, then shall
the dust return to the Earth as

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00:35:24,300 –> 00:35:29,700
it was the spirit shall return.
Unto God, who gave it now.

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00:35:29,700 –> 00:35:34,100
You have a wisdom conditioned by
the acceptance of those things

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00:35:34,500 –> 00:35:38,900
that the people and the rulers
of this world don’t have because

522
00:35:38,900 –> 00:35:41,000
they will not accept those
realities.

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00:35:41,700 –> 00:35:44,800
We accept them and say, okay,
this is going to happen, let me

524
00:35:44,800 –> 00:35:49,700
keep busy while I can be if if
some major shameful event

525
00:35:49,700 –> 00:35:53,500
doesn’t happen in my life, which
could happen today tomorrow, any

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00:35:53,500 –> 00:35:59,300
day I might have 10 15 years of
speakers life in me.

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00:36:00,100 –> 00:36:01,700
Then I cannot get on a plane
again.

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00:36:01,700 –> 00:36:03,600
I just can’t and won’t have the
strength for it.

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00:36:04,400 –> 00:36:08,700
Or the kingdom will be here.
So assess where you headed, and

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00:36:08,700 –> 00:36:12,100
how can I keep busy and do
something of value.

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00:36:12,700 –> 00:36:19,100
Wherever I might be at whatever
stage of life, Verse 8, that is

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00:36:19,100 –> 00:36:20,800
your vanity set.
The preacher.

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00:36:21,100 –> 00:36:25,300
All is Vanity and now it’s not
like a whip crack of pain and

534
00:36:25,300 –> 00:36:28,100
sorrow to hear.
Now it’s yeah I think I can

535
00:36:28,100 –> 00:36:33,500
accept that life.
Outside of God is useless and we

536
00:36:33,508 –> 00:36:37,600
knew get to an end where we no
longer are of any use.

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00:36:38,300 –> 00:36:43,000
But while we were live in God’s
hand, this much that we can do

538
00:36:44,200 –> 00:36:49,300
Remember the most powerful thing
a human being can do for

539
00:36:49,300 –> 00:36:52,300
another.
Human being is to pray for them

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00:36:53,200 –> 00:36:57,900
to pray for them.
Every one of you has an has

541
00:36:57,900 –> 00:37:02,100
stories about how God has
answered your prayers.

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00:37:02,800 –> 00:37:07,700
A very kind brother spoke with
me in the break and said, look I

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00:37:07,700 –> 00:37:09,700
get what you said about the
judgement seat, but I want to

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00:37:09,700 –> 00:37:13,300
point this out to you.
If everyday, we are praying for

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00:37:13,300 –> 00:37:18,000
God’s forgiveness for our sins,
there will not be a scroll full

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00:37:18,000 –> 00:37:21,500
of all the things.
We’ve done wrong, that will be

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00:37:21,500 –> 00:37:24,700
read out to us.
Because according to this song,

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00:37:24,700 –> 00:37:29,300
as far as the East is from the
West, our sins will be forgiven.

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00:37:30,400 –> 00:37:32,800
We still have to be accountable
for everything that we’ve done.

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00:37:32,800 –> 00:37:37,600
But we can hope positively that
will have life in God’s kingdom

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00:37:38,200 –> 00:37:40,500
because of the Forgiveness of
our sins.

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00:37:41,000 –> 00:37:44,200
Now, I think it was a nice way
to balance out those comments.

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00:37:46,000 –> 00:37:49,600
First night at 9:00 and moreover
because the preacher was why’s

554
00:37:50,000 –> 00:37:52,600
he still taught the people
knowledge.

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00:37:52,800 –> 00:37:57,800
Yay, he gave good heed and
sought out and set an order.

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00:37:58,100 –> 00:38:02,900
Many Proverbs, it’s an old man
who wrote this little man who

557
00:38:02,900 –> 00:38:06,100
made mistakes.
His heart had been drawn away by

558
00:38:06,100 –> 00:38:10,500
Foreign wives, he’d made
mistakes and had so much and

559
00:38:10,900 –> 00:38:15,100
realized it was all useless
apart from faith.

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00:38:15,600 –> 00:38:21,100
So what we are now bearing down
upon the destination were about

561
00:38:21,100 –> 00:38:25,300
to arrive at is not just an
additional afterthought, like

562
00:38:25,300 –> 00:38:26,700
some commentators.
See it.

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00:38:26,700 –> 00:38:33,600
It is the full totality and the
some the importance of

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00:38:33,600 –> 00:38:37,900
everything he has said before,
and all he is realized, and what

565
00:38:37,900 –> 00:38:43,000
we need to Value above all else.
And not see Ecclesiastes is a,

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00:38:43,000 –> 00:38:49,900
as a – diatribe Life.
It’s a celebration of life in

567
00:38:49,900 –> 00:38:53,700
God’s truth.
It’s a warning against a life of

568
00:38:53,700 –> 00:38:57,800
heedlessness of what is
important to God.

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00:38:58,600 –> 00:39:03,500
So that we really value our
lives and value what we can do

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00:39:03,500 –> 00:39:08,500
in it that will both make us
happy and that will honor him.

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00:39:11,100 –> 00:39:15,200
Verse 11.
The words of the wise are as

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00:39:15,200 –> 00:39:23,700
goads and his nails, fastened by
the masters of assemblies.

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00:39:24,800 –> 00:39:26,400
Which are given from one
Shepherd.

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00:39:30,300 –> 00:39:34,100
So a Shepherd gives nails to a
group of men who go and they

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00:39:34,100 –> 00:39:37,300
fasten them in a wall for people
to hang things on.

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00:39:38,700 –> 00:39:41,800
But it starts with a gold.
A sharp stick.

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00:39:43,500 –> 00:39:47,400
That was used to move an animal
forward and product in the right

578
00:39:47,400 –> 00:39:51,100
direction.
So that’s what the words of the

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00:39:51,100 –> 00:39:54,700
wise are.
Like, they’re both like goads in

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00:39:54,700 –> 00:39:59,200
our search for truth.
But then they provide nails for

581
00:39:59,200 –> 00:40:02,600
us to hang things on our
thoughts.

582
00:40:03,800 –> 00:40:07,200
Our hopes.
Our dreams.

583
00:40:08,700 –> 00:40:10,800
The things we anticipate look
forward to.

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00:40:12,200 –> 00:40:15,900
Those are the nails.
But, you know, there is there is

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00:40:15,900 –> 00:40:24,400
someone who is both a wise man.
and to Shepherd, His words act

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00:40:24,400 –> 00:40:28,800
as God’s to us and he’s like a
nail for us.

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00:40:29,700 –> 00:40:33,900
Let’s take a quick look then.
And Isaiah chapter 22.

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00:40:36,900 –> 00:40:39,500
Isaiah 22.
And we’re going to look at

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00:40:39,500 –> 00:40:45,400
verses 20 to 25.
Now, look what it says.

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00:40:47,400 –> 00:40:50,700
And it shall come to pass in
that day that I will call my

591
00:40:50,700 –> 00:40:54,900
servant Alia came the son of
hilkiah and I will clothe him

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00:40:55,200 –> 00:40:58,200
with thy robe and strengthen him
with I girdle.

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00:40:58,400 –> 00:41:01,500
And I will commit that
government into his hand and he

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00:41:01,500 –> 00:41:05,800
shall be a father to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem into

595
00:41:05,800 –> 00:41:09,500
the house of Judah, and the key
of the House of David, will I

596
00:41:09,500 –> 00:41:13,200
lay upon his shoulder.
He shall open and None Shall

597
00:41:13,200 –> 00:41:15,000
shut.
He shall shut.

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00:41:15,200 –> 00:41:19,500
And None Shall open.
And I will Asking him as a nail.

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00:41:20,700 –> 00:41:26,400
In a short place.
And he shall be for a throne of

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00:41:26,400 –> 00:41:31,500
Glory to his father’s house and
they shall hang upon him, all

601
00:41:31,500 –> 00:41:35,300
the glory of his father’s house
The Offspring.

602
00:41:35,500 –> 00:41:39,800
And the issue all vessels of
small quantity, from the vessels

603
00:41:39,800 –> 00:41:45,700
of Cups, even to all the vessels
of flagons, That day set, the

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00:41:45,707 –> 00:41:50,400
Lord of hosts shall the nailed.
It is fastened in the shore,

605
00:41:50,400 –> 00:41:57,500
place be removed and be cut down
and fail, and the burden that

606
00:41:57,500 –> 00:42:00,300
was upon.
It shall be cut off for the Lord

607
00:42:00,300 –> 00:42:04,500
hath spoken it.
So there’s a nail that is going

608
00:42:04,500 –> 00:42:09,200
to be cut down and removed.
But then there’s another nail.

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00:42:10,200 –> 00:42:15,500
Upon which the glory of God will
hang. and of course you can

610
00:42:15,500 –> 00:42:20,800
think in terms of well, those
leaders of Israel, those leaders

611
00:42:20,800 –> 00:42:25,200
who failed along the way and
were, who were not Faithful Men

612
00:42:25,700 –> 00:42:30,200
Nails, the people hung things on
that fell out of the wall, or

613
00:42:30,200 –> 00:42:34,400
were broken down and cut out by
people like Assyrians and

614
00:42:34,400 –> 00:42:39,500
Babylonians and Romans, Then
there is at Shore nail.

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00:42:40,500 –> 00:42:44,300
That we hang our hopes on even
the Lord Jesus Christ.

616
00:42:45,300 –> 00:42:49,100
The words of the wise, the
Bible.

617
00:42:50,600 –> 00:42:54,800
Gives us something to hang our
hopes on.

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00:42:57,100 –> 00:43:01,200
And the Bible tells us primarily
about the Lord Jesus Christ from

619
00:43:01,200 –> 00:43:06,100
beginning, all the way through
to the end, he is both a gold

620
00:43:06,700 –> 00:43:09,900
and a nail.
He is both the wise man.

621
00:43:10,800 –> 00:43:16,000
And the one Shepherd Of us his
sheep.

622
00:43:17,300 –> 00:43:21,000
And further my son, be
admonished of making many books.

623
00:43:21,000 –> 00:43:25,400
There is no end and much study
is a weariness of the Flesh and

624
00:43:25,400 –> 00:43:29,800
that to his true.
We need to enjoy life.

625
00:43:30,700 –> 00:43:34,800
Celebrate life.
But at the same time, recognize

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00:43:34,800 –> 00:43:40,300
that study is important but we
cannot be doing that 24 hours a

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00:43:40,308 –> 00:43:45,000
day, every day.
So verse 13, he then sums it all

628
00:43:45,000 –> 00:43:49,700
up and some commentators say ah,
suggested this is an additional

629
00:43:49,700 –> 00:43:52,200
note boobs.
Put in there at some point in

630
00:43:52,200 –> 00:43:53,300
time.
No, it’s not.

631
00:43:53,700 –> 00:43:57,600
It’s the whole point.
This is the whole point.

632
00:43:58,300 –> 00:44:01,200
Look what he says, let’s hear
the conclusion of the whole

633
00:44:01,200 –> 00:44:04,400
matter.
Fear God.

634
00:44:06,400 –> 00:44:11,800
Keep his Commandments.
For this is the whole of man.

635
00:44:14,400 –> 00:44:18,300
Now that word duty is added in
there. so, what this is saying

636
00:44:18,300 –> 00:44:26,100
is this Our whole life.
Has to be colored.

637
00:44:28,200 –> 00:44:32,000
Has to be tinged with this
decision.

638
00:44:33,100 –> 00:44:36,200
To fear God and to keep his
Commandments.

639
00:44:36,200 –> 00:44:41,100
And when we fail to seek
forgiveness, Fear God and keep

640
00:44:41,100 –> 00:44:43,900
his Commandments.
That’s the whole of man.

641
00:44:44,500 –> 00:44:47,100
So what are you saying?
Is this, the Hall of man is not

642
00:44:47,100 –> 00:44:50,100
money.
It’s not women.

643
00:44:51,200 –> 00:44:59,300
It’s not power, it’s not land.
It’s not Gardens and pools.

644
00:45:00,100 –> 00:45:05,200
It’s not horses and armies.
The whole of man.

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00:45:06,600 –> 00:45:13,000
Is Duty.
We were created for Duty.

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00:45:14,700 –> 00:45:19,200
For service.
Her giving back to God.

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Ingratitude and rejoicing in all
of his blessings to us.

648
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For God shall bring every work
into judgment with every secret

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00:45:29,900 –> 00:45:32,200
thing.
Whether it be good or whether it

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be evil.
Now what is that to do to put us

651
00:45:35,700 –> 00:45:37,600
down into a negative frame of
mind?

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00:45:37,600 –> 00:45:40,700
No, it’s say this.
Fear God and keep his

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00:45:40,700 –> 00:45:44,700
Commandments, you know you’ll
have to do you’ll have to deal

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00:45:45,000 –> 00:45:49,200
with things that you do or say
or think that are well that are

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00:45:49,400 –> 00:45:53,300
that are evil.
So, step away from those things

656
00:45:53,700 –> 00:45:58,400
as best you can and fear.
God keep his Commandments

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00:45:58,400 –> 00:46:02,200
because that’s the whole of what
we are to be all about.

658
00:46:02,700 –> 00:46:05,900
Now, right now we do that in
fits and starts because we’re

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00:46:05,900 –> 00:46:09,700
human and we’re faulty and we’re
mortal.

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00:46:10,400 –> 00:46:11,900
But in God’s kingdom.
Boy.

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00:46:11,900 –> 00:46:14,200
Oh boy.
Will that be absolutely

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00:46:14,200 –> 00:46:19,100
fulfilled.
The whole of what we will be.

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00:46:20,400 –> 00:46:23,800
Will be all about service to God
fearing him.

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00:46:24,900 –> 00:46:27,700
And keeping his Commandments the
old brothers and sisters.

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00:46:29,300 –> 00:46:33,100
Share your experiences.
Tell people your stories.

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00:46:34,200 –> 00:46:36,400
Talk about God’s hand in your
life.

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00:46:36,400 –> 00:46:40,000
What he’s done for you?
The things that he’s answered

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00:46:40,000 –> 00:46:45,200
and helped you with pray for
your brothers and sisters, hold

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00:46:45,200 –> 00:46:48,800
on through these last days.
And may we all see each other

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00:46:48,800 –> 00:46:53,100
and work with each other, and
the kingdom of God forever

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00:46:53,600 –> 00:46:55,500
running as fast as you can,
Tony.

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00:46:57,200 –> 00:46:59,600
How to flying with Eagle’s
Wings?

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00:47:00,200 –> 00:47:02,800
Never worry about, if you’re
going to fall or trip or stubble

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00:47:02,800 –> 00:47:03,100
again,