Dev Ramcharan – Class 6: Evening Program – The Power of Old People

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It’s a devs turned to speak to
us this evening and you can see

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the topic he’s chosen, I don’t
know what it’s about and I don’t

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want to ruin it, but I do want
to read Ecclesiastes 12 and

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hopefully it’ll not ruin it.
This is Ecclesiastes 12 from the

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message.
A new version.

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Honor and enjoy your creator
while you’re still young.

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Before the years, take their
toll and your Vigor Wayans.

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Before your vision dims and the
world blurs and the winter

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years, keep you close to the
fire.

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And your old age, your body no
longer serves you so well

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muscles slacking grip weakens
and Joints.

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Tiffin The shades are pulled
down on your world.

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You can’t come and go at will
things grind to a halt.

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The hum of the household Fades
away and your awaken Now by

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Birdsong.
Hikes to the mountains are a

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thing of the past.
Even a stroll down, the road has

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its terrors Your hair turns,
Apple Blossom, white adorning a

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fragile and impotent Matchstick
body.

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Yes, you’re well on your way to
Eternal rest while your friends

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make plans for your funeral.
Life lovely while it lasts is

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soon over Life.
As We Know It Precious and

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Beautiful ends, the body is put
back in the same ground.

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It came from It’s all smoke
nothing but smoke.

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Hope that’s not too depressing
Dev but little bit of Truth bomb

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from Solomon there.
Thank you.

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I’ve never asked Jeff to do
that, reading, just so y’all

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know.
You come from a couple of

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generations.
You come from a generation that

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is referred to as the great
generation.

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Many of you gave birth to a
brawling noisy, prosperous

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generation called the Boomers
who in turn.

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Gave birth to a generation
called Generation X.

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Yes somebody celebrating in the
back by himself there’s no one

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else with him.
And that largely characterized

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Generation X.
Generations have come

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generations of God.
And the world in which we live

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today old age is seen almost as
something.

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That one has to hide away in a
corner has to hide away.

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From has to pretend is not going
to happen, every one of us.

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That’s all Western Society.
In other societies.

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Old age is revered, great
respect is accorded to the

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elderly.
They are deferred to their views

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are sought.
Their point of view is still

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significant and important.
That you happen to be in a

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western country where people
worship youth, Vigor strength,

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and where old age is something
that is well, it’s an

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inconvenience of life.
But that’s not the biblical way.

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There is a great power and old
age there’s relevance there’s

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importance.
There’s a kind of Vitality that

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can continue in our older years.
If we decide that this is what

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we want to be able to have How
does the World Experience old

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age?
How do we experience it in

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reality?
Welders declining health and in

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that beautiful reading that Jeff
chose it.

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It really walked you through the
decline.

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I mean we don’t want to hear
those things but that’s what

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happens to everyone of us.
It was happening to you.

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Now right now, you’re
experiencing these things, we

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get used to pain chronic
illness.

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We get used to our joints
hurting in the morning.

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Getting out of bed in the
morning is an adventure, isn’t

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it?
Right?

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You can’t find your slippers and
then you slip on one, and you

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could make it to the hospital
just because of that.

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Your bones ache.
It’s hard to describe it to

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young people because they don’t
get it.

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You live with pain is a constant
companion all the time?

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There is also the loneliness
that can affect us at that stage

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of life.
Many.

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Many of the many of us have
experienced a bereavement of

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that companion that we had
beside us for so many years.

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And we know what, that that
descent into being alone can

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feel like Just a terrible
feeling of isolation.

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That is hard to describe hard
for other people to understand.

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Disappointments Galore.
All the things you hoped would

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be.
None of which came to fruition

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many of which are associated
with your kids.

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The marriages.
You thought they would have the

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work, they would do the careers
that they would have and the

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accomplishments that they would
achieve and the peace and the

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happy family lives.
You hope for them would be the

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case that many of you have found
just didn’t turn out that way

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though, they don’t realize it.
You carry the burden of grief

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that they feel Almost as heavily
as they do.

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You feel for your child?
When you look at that, 60 year

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old child, that 50 year old
child.

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You still see the baby you
carried in your arms.

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They don’t realize that.
They don’t understand that, that

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is the case.
That’s who you see?

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and when you see your baby
hurting, you hurt deeply too.

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You’ve learned about the
disappointments in the struggles

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of life that you didn’t know to
the same degree in your youth.

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You understand to what
restriction feels like everybody

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in covid is talking about how
hard it is.

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You’ve been there for decades
already.

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Can’t go everywhere.
You want to go, can’t get in the

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car and drive yourself
someplace.

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When you do, your kids are
calling the police because

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you’re on the road.
You’re knocked down a couple of

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people in a squirrel, but you
only notice the squirrel you

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stopped because of the squirrel.
Poor squirrel.

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My mom went right through a
construction zone to this day,

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she doesn’t realize she went
through a construction zone.

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She said there were some noisy,
men calling out to her at the

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time.
These things happened.

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They’re part of the experience
of old age of old age, fear and

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anxiety, what’s going to happen
to me?

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What other condition will?
I develop?

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What’s going to take me away?
Will it be my heart?

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And will it hurt a lot?
It’ll be cancer.

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Will it be diabetes?
Will it be dementia?

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What it’s going to be that will
take me and all of these things.

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By the way, are indicative of
the fact that we’re living

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longer.
We’re living longer than past

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Generations.
So we’re developing more the way

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of chronic illness and we ever
had before cancer.

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For instance, is primarily a
disease associated with aging

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with aging.
I know that there are young

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people to get it but primarily
cancer is a disease associated

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with, with aging.
So we worry and we feel anxious.

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We worry if our money is going
to run out, will we have to rely

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on our kids?
I don’t want to be a burden on

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my kids is something that is in
all of your minds at some point.

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I don’t want to be a burden.
On my kids already have a

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difficulty as a mother with my
daughter-in-law and the last

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thing I want to have to be as
depend on on her Goodwill and

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kindness to me I know it’s a
hard one, isn’t it sister?

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Aren’t you glad it’s not Jeff up
here right now because then I

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know your name so you know what?
I’m describing to you.

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You know what, I’m describing to
you.

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We don’t want to become burdens
that are presented by our kids.

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So we’re in Terror that we are
going to have to go there.

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And our children don’t
understand it.

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But the last vestiges of
Independence that we have.

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Have to almost be pried out of
our hands.

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Living on our own.
Being able to take care of

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ourselves until that time that
we leave the stove on and forget

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we left it on and there’s a
problem.

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Or we faint and were found in a
terrible state by a child that

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happens to come.
Visit us because we didn’t

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answer the phone.
So that that decline of life as

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it is experienced, then makes
people begin to think I’m no

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longer relevant.
What do I have to offer?

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Is there anything in me that I
can say is the power of old age?

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And then that uncertainty about
the future which seems to be a

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shorter and shorter period of
time for every one of us.

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Now, the way that the world
experiences these things is

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that’s all they have.
But we have God’s truth.

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And we recognize that whatever
condition we be maybe in today.

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This is not the end of us.
It might be the end of this

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phase of Who We Are. but when
the Lord returns, We will run

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and not be weary.
We’ll fly with the wings of

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eagles.
Can you imagine that?

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You won’t have to use a walker,
you won’t have to use a cane.

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You won’t have to worry about
that pain in your hip that you

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continually few it’ll all be
gone.

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And you’ll be able to do
anything and do it for God with

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love.
And with the sense of joy, we

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have some guidance for old age
throughout scripture together

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with that lovely passage in
Ecclesiastes, which we will talk

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about this week.
We have guidance that Paul gives

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to a young man who had a role to
play in serving part of the

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occlusal world.
He says, look Titus.

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As for you teach what Accords
with sound Doctrine, make sure

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that what you’re teaching is
Right teaching according to what

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we believe and the first thing I
want you to reflect on is this

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older men.
What’s well, if this was written

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for an American Audience, by an
American, wouldn’t it be the

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young men first and the old man
in the old women last But that’s

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not how God sees it.
God sees the Ecclesia structured

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in this way.
Elderly For the ones that we

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look after.
So that their spiritual

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well-being flows through to the
rest of the Ecclesia.

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So you might think, well, what
can an old man do in the

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Ecclesia?
The older men are to be

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sober-minded.
Dignified.

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Self-controlled.
Sound in faith.

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Other words sound the Greek.
He Guillen us.

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The word.
Hygiene comes from that it has

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to do with health.
It means that you as an old

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brother have to be healthy in
your faith.

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Not embittered towards God, not
disappointed in God.

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Not seeing God as having.
Let you down with all the

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trouble you’ve experienced and
continue to experience your

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life, but healthy in your faith.
Holding onto it, delighting in

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it, treasuring it, but that
healthiness continues.

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So you might read this way
healthy in your faith, healthy

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and love.
Healthy and steadfastness.

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Now, for unhealthy, in any of
those three, we lose the

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positive impactors old brothers
that we have on the Ecclesia.

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Sometimes you might think to
ourselves, you know, I was on

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the board for 50 years.
Not nobody even tells me what’s

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going on.
They never even asked my

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opinion, they don’t care what I
have to offer.

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It’s as if they forgot
everything that I did, all the

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years that I did it What God is
telling you through Paul to

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Titus as this.
Keep in the faith, strong in

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what you believe.
Healthy in your faith healthy in

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love.
Now, why would he need to say

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that?
because in that period of

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decline that we go through the
sense of isolation and the

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feeling that were not important
anymore, we can become

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embittered quietly resentful.
In the Ecclesia, but withdrawn

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into ourselves, not feeling a
sense of connection to the

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people around us.
Feeling isolated from them

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though, we’re in the midst of
them. what God is saying through

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Paul is this don’t stop loving
the Ecclesia.

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Now, we talked about that word
agape and sometimes in a very

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limited way, we say it means
self-sacrificing.

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Love that’s not what it means.
That is a consequence of what

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the word means.
What the word means is this.

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Love that chooses its object
that makes the decision to care

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about something.
Roll back.

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The years of your teenage son is
shaking his fist in your face,

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dad, screaming, and cursing at
you and you look at that child.

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And you think Well, you think
things you shouldn’t think?

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And you make the decision, you
know what?

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This is hard for me.
But I’m going to make the choice

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to continue to love you.
Unlovable though, you may be at

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this moment in time.
Because this is not naturally

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welling up inside of me, son.
It’s a choice.

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I’m going to make two love you.
God made that choice to love us

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the Lord.
Jesus Christ, made that choice

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to love us.
That’s what I go pee is.

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It’s love the chooses to love.
And that’s what we need as older

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brothers.
Love becomes a choice.

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We make is not a thing that
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naturally, or Wells up from us
because he watched the Ecclesia

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and his challenges as you look
at your family and the extension

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of the problems that occur down
through the generations, you

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make the choice to continue to
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Even when it’s hard to do it.
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That’s what he did for us.
So being healthy and love is

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about continually making that
choice to love and to be

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steadfast to be well, grounded
anchored and to keep on holding

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on through thick and through
thin. the older women, likewise

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So they are as important as the
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likewise are to be reverent in
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That would Reverend is
associated with well.

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The women who served in Pagan
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a Greek reading.
It would have understood that

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word, they conducted themselves
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With gray so they believe wrong
things but that’s what they were

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supposed to be like in some of
the temples in others, it was

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not.
So but in some of the temples

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this is how the women conducted
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so God takes a word used in the
Pagan world and he elevates it

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to say and in my house and my
Ecclesia, This is how I want the

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old sisters to conduct
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their behavior.
Not slanderers, a Greek word

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that’s used.
There is Diablo Lloyd.

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Right, at the diabolic activity
of Gossip is what he’s saying.

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Don’t do just don’t do it.
Don’t ever be associated with

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it.
Did you be Reverend not gossips

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or slaves?
Too much wine.

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Now, why would a woman be a
slave to Wine?

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Because in her older years with
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woman of this world when she has
lost her, physical Beauty,

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believe, sometimes she’s lost
everything.

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When she died, Elizabeth Taylor
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And not much of Elizabeth left.
Has he tried and tried with all

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kinds of surgical procedures?
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that spectacular Beauty, which
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It was what she saw.
As value in herself. as opposed

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to Faith and warmth and love and
reverence before God, It goes

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on.
And it says, They are to teach.

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What is good?
So older sisters are sources of

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wisdom.
Of encouragement.

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Of instruction.
Now, you know what?

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The same time you all going to
be a little bit, fearful about

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approaching some of the younger
sisters, especially when they

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give you that, that Granite
face.

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Look, yes.
Thanks very much for your

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opinion.
We’ll talk another time.

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And it frightens you off.
And you think why I’m not doing

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that again that not hurts.
I am not doing that.

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There are opportunities. when
you see a young woman struggling

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in her marriage, You think, you
know?

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I’m just going to go give her a
custom kiss cus I guess don’t

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give her a cuss.
I’m going to give her a kiss and

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a hug and I’m going to tell you
look I don’t know what it is.

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But I want you to know.
I love you and I’m here for you.

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And if you ever want to talk And
if you ever want to talk just

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confidentially, I’m here if you
want to but I won’t, I won’t

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intrude.
I’ll just pray for you and I

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know.
I know that we all go through

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challenges.
I’m here for you.

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Sometimes that’s all a sister
needs, she might reach out to

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you but without even realizing
it, you may have kept her alive

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and with her husband, one more
day.

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One more day.
And if they ask your advice how

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did you get through?
Like what did you do?

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Did you ever have this happen in
your marriage?

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Did you ever have that happen in
your marriage and the chances

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are, if you didn’t have the
specific thing happen, you had

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other things happen. that you
can speak from and say, well,

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You know, we went through
things.

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This is what kept me going.
I held on to my faith.

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There were times when I sat and
cried by myself and I reached

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out to God and I said, I don’t
know what to do.

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Just help me get through today.
And he did.

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And I found that prayer was Was
a thing in my life that kept me

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going.
And when she says, well I’ve

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tried that but nothing seems to
happen.

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And out of your wisdom out of
your experience of Life Of God,

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that of the truth.
You talk to her about waiting.

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And patience.
But sometimes God’s answer is

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no.
Sometimes God’s answer is no

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answer.
There is not going to be an easy

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way through this.
You just have to hold on and

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trust me.
Now that may not seem like a lot

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to you, but that is a lot.
To a young wife, who’s

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struggling?
And you don’t know how far that

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will go to keeping her going.
So they are to teach what is

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good.
And to train the young women to

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love their husbands and
children.

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Now, that could mean.
To keep on loving their husbands

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and their children.
When a woman has a teenage

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daughter, it could be active
combat every day.

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Today when a woman has a 35 year
old or 40 year old daughter.

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It can be like having a teenage
daughter used to be Because the

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generations are maturing more
slowly than ever, they’re taking

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longer to learn lessons that you
learned when you were 16 years

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old, and 17 and 18.
And you you sometimes stand

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there and shock mom and you
can’t believe they don’t know

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the basics of whatever the thing
is, they don’t know the basics

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of that.
You knew when you were a very

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young woman That’s so teaching.
Training without coming across

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as being a teacher and a
trainer.

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But more a sharer of what you
have learned, the mistakes,

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you’ve made the things that
you’ve come to realize are the

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most important.
Excuse you remember, that first

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set of nice furniture.
You got mum.

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Maybe had the ragtag assortment
of things, you saw people,

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putting the garbage Decor, still
usable, you could put some work

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into them and they’d be good
enough or things are brothers

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and sisters or relatives passed
on to you and then you finally

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bought that beautiful.
You know, dining room set with

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all the matching chairs made of
wood and one day you walk by and

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there’s a massive scuff on their
side of the table or on the top.

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Can you feel your heart
collapsing in on yourself

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because the thing you always
wanted for so long you have and

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now it’s been scuffed and you
could tell that young wife going

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through the same thing.
That’s not that important after

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all.
Those things are important just

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for a brief moment in time and
then they’re not important

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anymore.
How do you keep on loving your

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husband?
When he’s distracted or selfish

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or neglectful or worse?
How many of you know, how you

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got through?
And you just need to share that

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with a younger sister.
That, that that’s what God is

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saying to us.
The old brothers and sisters

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have relevance, they have a
power to influence with their

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quiet, loving wise hearts, They
have so much to give.

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You have so much to offer.
And not just to help them to

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keep on loving their husbands
and to keep on loving the kids

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to the difficult phases.
But to be self-controlled.

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Pure working at home kind and
submissive to their own

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husband’s.
That the word of God may not be

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reviled is any one of those
things easy to do.

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Not a single one of them, not
one of those things is easy to

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do.
But you learned so much through

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your life as a wife that you can
share.

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Do they know more than you do
from an intellect.

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And and and fact and knowledge
and education perspective will

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show.
They do, do they know more than

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you from a spiritual
perspective.

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They most certainly do not you
have so much you can help them

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with and teach them with one of
the great dangers of old age is

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a yearning for the past.
I remember how it used to be.

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When we went to a Bible School,
everybody wore jackets and ties.

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Their slacks and they were neat.
Well, polished shoes.

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Everybody had manners and spoke
with great respect to each

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other.
Remember how kids behaved?

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Remember how every meeting we
had?

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Was an event, that was so
reverential.

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It was all in everything that we
did and how everything is so

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slack and slapdash and, you
know, a jokey circus act.

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It’s nothing is serious.
Like it used to be I think

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they’ve lost the truth.
They’ve lost everything we used

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to have That’s how every
generation has felt.

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If Robert Roberts, which is see
your generation in its youth.

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It would not have been pleased.
And so it goes for every single

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generation.
Ecclesiastes chapter 7 verse 10

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says, do not.
Say why were the old days better

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than this?
For it is not wise to ask such

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questions.
Whoo, that’s cold and hard and

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edgy isn’t it?
Stop whining about the past.

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That’s what it says to me.
I don’t like that.

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I feel it’s wrong.
But it’s God speaking.

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The past is behind us.
The days of Ezra with the

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foundation was laid.
There was a combined outbreak.

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Of heartbroken weeping and
joyful rejoicing.

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One generation who had never had
their own Temple, they grown up

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as Exiles, they’d been a
minority group that was

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discriminated against in Persia.
And now they had the foundation

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of a temple, that would be
uniquely theirs, and recapture

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everything that had been lost in
their worship.

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But the other generation looked
at this pathetically small in

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adequate replacement for what
they remembered for, what used

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to be for the way it was for how
things used to work for how

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glorious they once were.
And in looking at what they had

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lost.
They fail to see the beauty of

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what they now still had.
So, the truth is still alive.

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Are Ecclesia is a still going.
The gospel is still believed

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God’s truth.
Is still preached.

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We still have Sunday schools.
We still have Bible classes.

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We still have the readings.
We still have the word of God

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that imperishable foundation for
our lives.

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The way it once, was the way
things once were, is more a

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memory to hold onto fondly as
opposed to a stick with which to

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beat today, and the way things
are.

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Now, of course, we’re going to
see things we wish were

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different, but rather than us
being critics, Coming from the

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way things used to be.
Let’s find a way to rejoice in

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the things that currently are.
Add to be to be grateful for the

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fact that we still have ache
leisure’s.

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We’re still in, Ecclesia has And
to pray for her closures.

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So then what can you do?
Our job is old, brothers and

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sisters is to help the younger
Generations.

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In Psalm 71 the psalmist, right?
Even when I’m old and gray, do

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not forsake, me my God, why
Until I declare your powers to

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the Next Generation.
Your Mighty acts to all who are

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to come.
Now, you might think to

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yourself.
Well, you know what?

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My memory of scriptures is
fading I’m losing track of

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passages and where to find them.
I can remember phrases,

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sometimes, remember a piece, but
I don’t always remember where it

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is, but it’s not just talking
about scripture.

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What has God done for you?
And your life.

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When you have reached out to him
in crisis, it prayer.

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In agony.
Talk about the mighty acts of

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God in your life.
Talk about what you went through

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and how God got you through.
Share those stories.

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With brothers and sisters with
young ones especially because

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they will surely go through the
things you have been through.

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It might be a different age, but
they will still go through them.

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And you can tell them how God
got you through.

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So that you can show God was not
just active in the lives of the

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Jewish people.
It wasn’t just a force in the

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lives of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob.

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Their marriages and the raising
of their kids.

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He has most certainly been a
force in my life.

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And I couldn’t have gotten
through so many things.

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We’re not for him.
So, talk to them about these

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things.
See it as part of your

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responsibility.
To share with younger people.

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The mighty acts of God in your
little life. we also read in

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verse 19, your righteousness,
God reaches to the heavens, you

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have done great things who is
like you God Of all the people

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in your life that you have had.
Even though you’ve had your

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rough times with him, he’s the
one person who has never ever

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let you down, even though you
felt let down sometimes in

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hindsight, you realized no.
He didn’t really let me down.

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I just had to go through that
thing and get through it.

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So, tell them share those
stories, we are creatures.

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That are tied to.
And energized by and

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strengthened by stories.
So tell you a story.

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Now, sometimes, sometimes the
story can go on and on and be

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repetitive, there’s a brother at
our Ecclesia.

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Is baptized about 13 years ago.
And every time you see in,

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that’s every Bible class every
Sunday school, every Sunday

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morning every other time we get
together, he talks about how he

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was baptized.
How his son changed his name to

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Luke from Louis?
And he Berta Louis says, I asked

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him.
Why did you change your name?

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He’s an Old Dutch brother.
And he says this, he tells you

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the story every time he swim and
Luke told me because I like the

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Gospel of Luke dad you should
read it sometime and Louis says

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and I was a strict and devout
Catholic, I said we don’t read

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the Bible.
Re-read.

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The missile, the Catholic
missile, the priest reads, the

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Bible tells us what we should
believe.

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And his son said, dad, you
should read it.

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A one-day old Brother, Louie was
on the subway, he saw a sign

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advertised on the top of the, of
the car and it said, learn to

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read the Bible seminar for the
public at the church, treaty

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Collegiate downtown Toronto.
And he went to Italy.

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Learned the truth.
And to this day, he never stops

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telling the story.
At first, I said they go, no

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story.
I don’t want to Louie.

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Do you realize, you’ve told me
this story, 25 times and I’d run

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away, I would run away.
Now, I’m delighted to hear it

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every time, I hear it because it
underscores to me.

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A man’s story of faith.
That comforts me and I look

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forward to it.
I just look for up.

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Here’s the story.
Yes as God working in a man’s

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life.
So, tell your story.

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And tell your story.
And share your story.

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Because your story becomes
integrated into someone else’s

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story.
And gives them the hope to hold

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on.
When you’re gone and you’re not

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here anymore.
So what do you have to offer

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them as an old brother or sister
perspective?

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When you’re 40 years old and
you’re pushing yourself up the

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line in your organization.
The most important thing to you

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is that promotion that bonus,
that next stage. and it’s not

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the most important thing that
there is and now in your 70s and

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80s that you’re way past, Career
or or caring about career.

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You know, that the Grandeur
perspective is higher than that.

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And it’s about where we going.
Through what we believe.

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That what we believe is going to
happen.

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So you can offer a different
perspective to someone that

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might be struggling in their
career, to just give them an

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insight into how to balance it.
So that it does not overwhelm

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their lives.
And so that the truth remains

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vibrant and strong For them.
You have experience to offer

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that young people don’t have,
you have a story of faith and

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00:37:30,000 –> 00:37:34,100
confidence in God.
Like Brother Louis has you have

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00:37:34,100 –> 00:37:37,600
regrets?
The older you are, the more

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regrets you have now?
Regrets are not a stick that you

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use to beat yourself up with.
They are evidence of growth.

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If it’s 75 years of age, you
have no regrets.

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Something is seriously wrong
with you. but if you could look

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back and say to yourself, you
know, If I could do it over

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again.
I would do so many of those

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things differently.
The what that indicates is

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you’ve grown to a point where
you can look back and understand

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00:38:19,100 –> 00:38:23,900
what you’ve done, where you’ve
been How you’ve behaved in your

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00:38:23,900 –> 00:38:28,800
life and the decisions that
you’ve made and now you would do

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things differently.
You might be 75 years old, but

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if I could snap my fingers and
you were 30 years old again,

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would you be happy about that?
No.

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You would not Not one of us.
And that means you’ve grown and

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00:38:47,200 –> 00:38:51,000
that means you regrets or
evidence of growth and they

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00:38:51,000 –> 00:38:53,100
should give you a sense of all
right.

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00:38:54,000 –> 00:38:55,500
God’s got me.
This far.

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Is going to take me the rest of
the way.

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You have empathy that is deeper
than it was when you were 25.

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You can respond to and feel.
Someone else’s suffering.

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And be willing to be there with
them to comfort them.

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00:39:20,000 –> 00:39:24,200
You have greater broader
compassion that the narrow

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00:39:24,200 –> 00:39:28,800
compassion, you may have had
when you were 20, you’ve got

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00:39:28,800 –> 00:39:32,300
love.
Which if you are healthy in, it

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can strengthen other people.
You have wisdom, the practical

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00:39:37,200 –> 00:39:40,800
application of all the
knowledge, you’ve accumulated

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and the outcomes of the
experience that you have.

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And you have the greatest
superpower a human being can

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00:39:50,500 –> 00:39:53,500
possibly have on the face of
this Earth.

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You can pray for people.
Now, we think I can’t build a

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house.
I can’t lift boxes to help

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somebody move, I don’t have
money to pay for somebody’s

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00:40:06,200 –> 00:40:10,000
health care costs, but I don’t
have a lot of smart things, I

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can say to people, but You can
pray for them.

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And that means little you with
all your aches and pains can

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00:40:20,700 –> 00:40:29,600
reach out to the most powerful
being in existence, who is your

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00:40:29,900 –> 00:40:33,400
father?
And ask him to help somebody.

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I trust him believe that he
will.

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At the court, back to him and
say, you remember how you helped

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me?
I’m asking you to help this

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brother out the same way.
Just get him through Lord in

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heaven, shall be.
Is there anything I can say that

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will help him just give me the
right words so I don’t make

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things worse.
I helped him to hold on.

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00:41:05,300 –> 00:41:10,800
Psalm 92 says, the righteous
will flourish like a palm tree.

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That’s good to hear it.
Palm Springs, isn’t it?

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00:41:14,900 –> 00:41:19,100
They will grow like a Cedar of
Lebanon planted in the house of

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00:41:19,100 –> 00:41:21,800
the Lord, they will flourish in
the courts of our God.

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00:41:22,100 –> 00:41:26,700
They will still bear fruit in
old age.

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Now, what’s that?
Talking about babies?

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No.
Thank goodness.

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Isn’t it sister?
Can you imagine it’s 75?

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Having a baby.
Oh no.

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They will still bear fruit.
In the lives that they

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influence.
The people that they comfort.

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The people, they encourage the
people, they pray for they will

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00:41:54,600 –> 00:42:00,300
still bear fruit.
In old age, they will stay fresh

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00:42:00,400 –> 00:42:06,700
and green doing what’s
proclaiming listen son listen

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00:42:06,700 –> 00:42:09,500
daughter.
The Lord is upright.

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00:42:11,800 –> 00:42:14,200
I can’t rely on money.
I don’t care about my car.

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00:42:14,200 –> 00:42:17,200
I don’t care where I live my
clothes don’t matter to me

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00:42:17,200 –> 00:42:20,400
anymore.
He is my rock.

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00:42:22,200 –> 00:42:25,800
There’s no wickedness in him.
God will never you.

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00:42:25,800 –> 00:42:27,100
Do you wrong?
Child.

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00:42:28,500 –> 00:42:31,100
He may not answer you the make
the way you want him to answer

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00:42:31,100 –> 00:42:33,700
you.
But there’s no wickedness in

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00:42:33,700 –> 00:42:37,700
him.
There’s no greater thing that

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00:42:37,700 –> 00:42:42,300
you can leave for your children.
The knowing that.

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And so, brothers and sisters.
Though, you may struggle with

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00:42:49,700 –> 00:42:53,400
loneliness.
Though, you may have your time

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of deep isolation, you’re never
alone.

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Even when you’re alone. as I 46
verse 4 says, God says, even to

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your old age and gray hairs.
I am he I am he who will sustain

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you.
I’ve made you and I will carry

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00:43:18,500 –> 00:43:21,400
you.
I will sustain you.

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And I will rescue you.