Dev Ramcharan – Hosea – When Israel was a Child, I Loved Him – Class 4 – When Ephraim Spake Trembling

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Well, brothers and sisters, it’s
been a long and busy weekend for

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all of you and I know that there
were people that put an intense

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amount of effort into
organizing.

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Everything has taken place this
weekend.

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The music for me was a was a
wonderful highlight.

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I was telling the young people,
you know, I remember 25 years

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ago listening to some of these
young people’s performances and.

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Because of your great love for
them, you would get through

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them, but this group was quite
sophisticated the playing.

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Was wonderful.
The choral pieces were just

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exquisite.
They were gorgeous.

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So thank you for all of that.
And thank you, those organizers,

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behind the scenes, most of whom
no one knows by name, who day

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and night work, to get all of
this organized, to have enough

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food to get the food in and
everything else.

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And then you’ve got the
difficulty of dealing with

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difficult speakers of overseas
likewise on top of that, all of

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which is a lot of hard work.
So don’t underestimate how much

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has gone into a gathering like
this.

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And if you find anybody who did
any work in it, say thank you to

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them.
I I know we said that we don’t

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do work to be thanked, but for
those people who quietly worked

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behind the scenes appreciate the
gift of love they’ve they’ve

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actually given to you.
Now, one of the things that

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we’ve seen through this book.
Even though we’ve just looked in

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a patchy way.
At passages from the beginning

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to the end.
Is that the Lord is very

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constant in what he does.
When he makes a commitment, he

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sticks to it.
When he makes a promise, he

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doesn’t change his mind and
change direction.

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His honouring of his part of
every commitment he makes is not

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dependent on how we behave.
And how we respond, Yes, he may

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need.
To draw in correction.

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Sometimes that correction can
be.

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Blisteringly difficult and awful
to have to endure through.

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But God, pardon the expression,
is a man of his word.

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He’s a.
Person who sticks to what he

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said he’s going to do, and God
expects that of you and me.

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But we are not constant and how
we do what we do in our

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interaction with each other for?
Us.

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It becomes transactional.
You treat me this way, I’ll

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treat you that way.
You mistreat me, I’ll mistreat

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you.
It becomes that kind of an

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interaction.
And so we become critically

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dependent in how we behave on
the way in which the other

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person the corresponding
individual.

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Behaves with us.
And that’s not the way Christ

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did what he did.
It’s not the way that God did

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what he did with Israel.
And so, in our relationships

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with God, we try to.
Be as constant with Him as he is

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with us.
Are you going through a terrible

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trial and loss in your life?
Are you angry with God?

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Have you stopped talking to him
when you talk?

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To him is it with an underlying
tone of bitterness, a

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disappointed feeling.
A feeling that he let you down

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when you needed him.
We need to be able, in the

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middle of our trials, to go
counter intuitive, to be the

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opposite of that.
Are you angry with God?

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Tell him you’re angry with him.
Pour it out in prayer to him.

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I have no clue why you’re
allowing this to happen to me in

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my life.
I feel disappointed.

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I’m frustrated.
Lord, help me to understand.

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Just help me to hold on.
Today and then tomorrow, if you

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could just give me an insight to
be able to make it through this

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one day, Lord, that would be a
wonderful answer to my prayer.

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That’s better than not talking
to him.

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It’s.
Better than turning your back

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and walking away from him.
So there are those moments when

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the way that we interact with
God is all about a transaction.

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And it’s not transactional.
Because if it was, would you be

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alive in light of the fact that
a man gave his life for you?

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If that was transactional, would
you be alive?

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No, He gave his life for you,
that you might then live for

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him.
Or what does that mean?

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It means how I am with my wife,
how you are with your husband,

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how we are with our children,
how we are with our brothers and

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sisters.
How you are with your colleagues

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at the office or on the
construction site?

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How you are with your employees,
how you are with your managers,

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the executives, the the leaders
you report to, is all going to

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reflect the fact that a man gave
his life for undeserving you so

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that you could live differently.
And you might say, well, I’m not

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going to live like a like that
in the workplace, am I?

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Yes, you are.
You need to feel a sense of

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affection for the people that
you work with to be a brother or

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a sister.
With them now they may not.

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All understand all of the the
the spiritual, biblical

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undergirding of how you.
Relate to them, but if they know

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you as a gentle, kind,
straightforward, supportive

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individual.
Who gives them cover and is

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supportive of them?
Who is not always complaining

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and.
Back biting and falling prey to

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The Dirty political backstabbing
that Mars many workplaces.

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And they know that you’re
different.

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You’re different and and and and
sometimes tell you why you so

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different, which then gives you
an opportunity to talk a little

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bit about your faith.
Then if you’re doing those

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things, you’re a person who is
showing the atonement has made

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an impact on you.
Are you a manager?

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Director.
An executive.

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And you hold your people in your
grasp with tightness and rigour.

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So it’s all about the metrics,
the bottom line, the results,

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the outcomes without a deep care
and concern for them as people

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and what they go through even.
Those you would have nothing to

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do with normally, but because
they are your colleagues, you

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treat them like you would treat
a brother or a sister.

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If you do that as a vice
president, as a director, as a

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manager, as a supervisor, then
you’re doing the atonement in

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your job and showing the love of
Christ and what you do.

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That’s if those things are
valued as the most important

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gift you have ever.
Received in your life, God gave

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His love to Israel.
There was.

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Nothing more precious she could
have received, and she didn’t

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realise what she had.
He taught her to walk.

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He taught her to understand his
word and his ways he gave her.

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All of the symbolism, all of the
richness.

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All of the celebration and
ritual around the Tabernacle and

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then the temple and the
priesthood and even even the

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royal hierarchy of the king and
the Kingdom.

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He gave them all of that, all of
which were the greatest gifts

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that they could have, and they
didn’t even know the value of

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that.
Sister, do you know the value of

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the love of the husband at your
side when you look with this

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satisfaction at the home you
live in?

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The holiday you thought you were
going to get and did not get.

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The things that you thought your
marriage would be like the

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luxuries you would one day have,
and you find he could provide

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none of those things for you.
But the man has to work day and

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night to hold things together
for you.

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Do do you realize the gift you
have?

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Are you like those Israelites in
Psalm 78 who said.

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Can he provide something better
for me?

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Can he even give me what I want?
Can he give me the meat I’d like

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to have?
I’m sick of this basic manner of

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a life that I have.
That’s not what I signed up for.

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And when he’s sick, a
chronically broken man.

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Are you there with your arms
around him, those sleepless

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nights of pain at his side?
Remembering that you married him

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no matter what he would go
through, you’d be there with him

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or do.
You feel you’ve been cheated and

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got a raw deal.
You see, we measure the things

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we thought we should have and
get and the way we should have

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been.
Treated and what we felt we

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deserved and were owed and we
don’t recognize.

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That in Christ we’re owed
nothing because we got

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everything and now our
responsibility is to give back.

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Many professions today talk
about giving back.

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You take an apprentice under
your arm.

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You take somebody who’s in the
same profession and you.

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You guide them along and you
encourage them.

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You you look after an intern.
You might be an older sister in

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the Ecclesia.
You take a young sister or two

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under your arm and you you you
support them and and help them

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as they.
Work through the problems and

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the struggles.
Of married life and child

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raising and and just being a
sister.

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And for us a whole life has to
be about giving back and helping

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and giving love.
Have you had?

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Difficulty in being offended in
your.

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Ecclesia.
Has somebody treated you

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roughly?
Is there a person in that

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Ecclesia that calls you and irks
you, brings the bile up out of

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your system?
Every time you see them, keep

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going and keep praying.
Walking away from the Ecclesia

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because someone’s said something
hurtful to us is not what we

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need to do if we love God.
If we want to be constant, like

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God is constant with us, then
it’s not transactional, it’s not

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the Ecclesia treating me nicely.
Therefore, I’ll stay in the

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Ecclesia.
You, You.

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Weren’t baptized into Christ to
have an easy time?

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First, Peter chapter two and
three talk about the Atonement

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and the sufferings that the.
Believers would go through and.

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Peter keeps saying things like
in the same way, let husbands be

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husbands be with their wives in
the same way, let wives be with

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their husbands in the same way.
Let employees be with their

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employers in the same way.
Let employers be with their

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employees in the same way as
what as the atonement that is

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described.
In chapter two of First Peter,

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where Peter describes the
unfairness of the sufferings of

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Christ, the fact that he bore up
under them because it was his

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service to God and for us.
So your ecclesial life is going

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to have times.
Where you’re not treated well

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and where you may not treat.
Someone else?

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Well, but you don’t stop coming
out.

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And if you’ve stopped, come
back.

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There’s work you need to be
doing.

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That’s not getting done because
you’re not there and lend a

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hand, Keep in.
And in your marriage when all

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the.
Imperfections start coming out

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when you see your husband.
With all the glaze off of your

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eyes or your wife and the two of
you aging together and that you

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know change to body shape that
occurs, you know you.

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Go from a cucumber shaped thing
to an avocado shaped thing and

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you look at that.
You know what?

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That that’s a big change.
You just accept.

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Well, this is who you are with
and who you love.

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And who loves you?
Every marriage has its times of

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trouble.
There isn’t a single one.

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Every family that looks like.
They have no problems, have the

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worst of all problems, they just
have the best way of acting like

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they don’t.
Every person in this room has

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got broken bits in their lives.
Shrapnel trouble difficulty.

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Of some type.
Every one of us.

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That’s us.
So do you think shrapnel is

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going to rub against shrapnel
every?

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Once in a while and cause
difficulties.

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Yes, it happens in ecclesial.
Life.

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It’s going to happen in your
marriage, they say.

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Complimentary people, opposites
attract, so you might got a

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fairly shy retiring man.
Who’s married to a very

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outgoing, extroverted woman and
you might think, well, that’s a

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that’s a recipe for.
Wonderful things until it’s not.

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And then the the.
You know, the outgoing sister is

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frustrated by the fact that he
never talks, He never says

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anything.
She asks him if anything is

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wrong.
Nothing’s ever wrong, but

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something’s clearly wrong and
that’s wrong and he feels like

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he’s pursued.
Like a rabbit down every hole in

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the house in which they live and
never.

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Has a moment’s peace, and no, he
doesn’t.

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Want to talk at all?
And he never learned to talk

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because he.
Had so many talking of relatives

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around him in his life.
He never learned to talk.

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He never had the chance to so
those people so complimentary.

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He fell in love with her
outgoing nature.

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She fell in love with that shy,
retiring gentleness Dr. Each

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other.
Crazy after a while.

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And that’s when you make that
love a choice.

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It’s not something that falls on
you or that you wake up with in

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the morning and it wells up out
of you.

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It’s a choice you make.
You know, I’m married to this

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person.
I love him and I’m going to

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stick with it because that’s
what God did with.

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Israel.
That’s what Christ did with you,

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and that’s what we need to do
with each other, those tough

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stages of anything.
Some of you are artists, some of

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you are musicians when you’re.
Practicing that piece and you

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get to that hard.
Passage.

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And you just want to throw your
cello through the window right

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through the window.
And listen to that smash down in

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the parking lot below.
Say yes, you deserve that, don’t

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you?
Right.

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What do you do?
Keep practicing.

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If you’re a painter and you’re
painting, every painting gets to

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a stage where you want to tear
it up and set fire to it.

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And it’s that time where you see
one Fleck of colour and they

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work with it and extend it and
broaden it and you get through

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to the end of the painting and
it’s beautiful.

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Now, I’m not telling you that
everything is going to work

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magically that way for you.
But what I am saying is we’re

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worth the effort.
Our marriages are worth the

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effort.
Our ecclesias are worth the

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effort.
Our kids, our parents, our

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brothers and sisters are worth
the effort of getting through

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those tough stages when you want
to just pack it all in and give

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up, what’s?
The world’s approach to that?

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Well, the.
World is told by advertising you

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have to be happy all the time
you deserve.

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Ongoing all the time happiness.
And if you don’t have that

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happiness, something’s wrong.
So leave and go find it

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somewhere else and the world is
filled with 60.

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Five year old executives pushing
prams with a baby in it for a 35

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year old wife that they in their
crack brained glory believe will

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be doing his diapers in 10
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That’s the stupidity.
Of the elevated expectations.

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We set for ourselves.
Israel looked with envy at the

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nations around They wanted to be
like Syria, like Egypt, like a

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Syria, like Babylon.
They wanted to be like the

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nations.
They wanted a king so that we

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can be like the nations.
Because they wanted the

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prosperity, the sense of.
Accomplishment.

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The power, the influence of the.
Nations.

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But that’s not what God wanted
them to have.

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God gave them everything that
they needed.

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They just had to work through
the tough bits and hold on in

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constancy.
That’s what Jose is all about.

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God is telling them through this
terrible heart rending book.

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Just hold on to me.
I’m going to have to put you

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through discipline.
You’re going to go through

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trouble.
You are going to be corrected by

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me for all of your sin, All of
you evil, all the injustice, the

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oppression of the poor, the
advantage that you’re taking of

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widows and orphans and gentiles,
the slavery, the release, the re

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enslavement of people.
All the ugly things you do, you

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priests who are now murdering
gangs, gangsters that were once.

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Priests, I have to discipline
you, but hold.

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On through it and.
Reach out for me.

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Look, for me, that’s what we
need to do.

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In the heart of it all, all of
our trouble, all that we have to

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endure is a desperate need to
hold on to God in the middle of

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that fight, No.
Matter how much your hip hurts,

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believing he’s there and he’s
with you, and he’ll give you the

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the knowledge, the understanding
and the wisdom that you need to

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get through.
So we turn brothers and sisters

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to Chapter 13.
When Ephraim spake trembling, he

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exalted himself in Israel.
Now the alternate translation.

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Most modern translations have
something along these lines is

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when Ephraim Spake there was
trembling, but you know this

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other first King James Version
translation is good enough and.

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What this could be saying is
this.

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When Ephraim approached God with
fear and trembling and love, he

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exalted himself in Israel.
But when?

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He went in the other direction
when he embraced the gods and

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goddesses.
Of the nations when he took on.

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Bow.
That disgusting weather God and

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his horrible consort and
worshipped those things.

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He died now for us then if we
take that and.

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Translate it into modern terms
if you make your.

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Career.
Your entire life, you’ll be

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investing in rubbish.
It will not save you.

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It will not give you the
happiness you think you’re going

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to get from it.
It will steal many things from

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you.
It’ll steal your kids from you.

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It’ll steal your faith from you.
In the end, after you’ve clawed

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your way up, kicking people down
to the top, they fling you out

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the door like you are nothing at
all.

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Two months ago, an executive
vice president.

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Called us all in together at the
bank that I work for in Toronto.

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He got on screen and his pupils
were fully dilated and he said

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you’re all doing a wonderful
job.

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And that is executive code for
bad news is about to be

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delivered.
You’re all doing such a

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wonderful job.
I just want you to know

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everything has been moving
nicely so much.

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Innovation, people working
together, collaboration, blah

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blah.
All the foolish, silly nonsense,

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people say.
And then he said.

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And the senior executive team at
the top of the bank have decided

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to liquidate our division.
IA pin dropping is doesn’t

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describe the moment that came
after that.

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And then directly after that our
Senior Vice President who

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reports to him.
Called a meeting with all her

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staff and then directly after
that the vice president who

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works with that senior vice
president called all the staff

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and then directly after that.
The assistant vice president

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called her staff together and
then everybody else was in

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absolute and complete shock.
Some of these people in these

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roles work 15 hours a day.
It’s their life.

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It’s in their blood.
And so we have.

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These absolutely idiotic moments
where.

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People get all kinds of
corporate prizes because they

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work day and night and almost
died on the job.

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Isn’t it wonderful?
That’s commitment.

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It’s not commitment.
It’s stupidity.

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Is what it is.
Because you think that job, that

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bow, that weather, God thing you
worship is going to look after

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you.
You know the man that got on

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that first call, the.
Executive Vice President.

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Guess what?
New job he was going to.

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Termination now you would think
after 30 years of.

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Climbing on broken glass and
rubble on your knees.

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You would be on easy street,
wouldn’t you?

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Well, you’re not.
The more you give to that, the

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less you get in return.
We work with honor in the

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workplace.
We give everything we have while

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we’re there, but we do not let
that region of bow invade.

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All aspects of our lives and
consume them.

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Because when we do, we reap a
harvest of disappointment.

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And that’s just one area.
Are your kids your gods?

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Is everything about the kids and
the kids and the kids and their

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sports.
And you can’t make it on Sunday

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because you’re taking them to a
sports event and you know, she

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might get a scholarship to a
university, or she might even

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join the Australian Olympic
swimming team and all that

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idiotic nonsense.
That’s your bow now.

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Is that is that the thing that
you worship that’s going to save

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you or in the end give you
happiness in your life?

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No, it isn’t so.
We look at these expressions and

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we consider them a little bit
quaint, but not really something

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that is relevant in the 21st
century.

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They are God’s.
Word is always relevant.

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We just need to think about it,
reflect on it, meditate on it.

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When we humble ourselves to
recognize the only place I can

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find fulfilment is in labouring
in service with my family and

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the ecclesia.
Then it.

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Changes it.
Changes the orientation of our

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life.
In all of us, there is a push.

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Because generationally that’s
been bred into us upwards,

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upwards, upwards with a with a
progressively rising standard of

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living.
Is it good for us when we really

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look at it close?
Has it been good for your kids?

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Wasn’t good for mine.
All the mistakes over the years,

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I wish I could go back and
change those things, be with my

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kids, go to every CYC night,
every event that involved.

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Kids, conferences, weekends,
everything associated with Bible

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school.
And so on to be there with them.

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I was busy.
Exceptionally busy in the truth,

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but not with them.
And that was wrong, because you

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can busy yourself out.
Even in the work of the

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Ecclesia, without giving
adequate support to the people

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that are dependent on you to be
there for them.

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I love my children, they love
me.

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But now when I talk.
To them, and I listen to what

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they they recall.
To me, I would think, well, I

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was away for a couple of weeks
in the summertime at Bible

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schools.
You know what they?

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Remember, Papa was always away
at Bible school.

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Mama raised us through the
summer.

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And you want to correct them,
and you want to balance the

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story, but then you shut your
mouth because you realize what

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she remembers.
That’s what happened.

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And now I look back and I ask
myself, did I abandoned my

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family to do work that gave me a
sense of well-being, worth and

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value?
And was it worth it for them?

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I don’t have an answer to that
question.

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I don’t.
And if a young man were to come

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up to me and say Uncle Dev, what
is balance look like?

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I could not tell you because
I’ve never achieved it in my

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life.
Go to someone that you think.

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Look is balanced to you and ask
their counsel.

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All I can say is this the labor
that we put into the truth with

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our families in there.
Together at the same time is the

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best work that we can put our
hands to, and it’s hard work.

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It’s not work that is.
Full of joy and gratitude and

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highs.
And so it’s just work that you

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do in thankfulness to God.
So do some kind of work for God

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and it will give you a.
Fulfilment in the Ecclesia you.

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Might be a sister, you might be
a brother.

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It doesn’t matter now that
involves humility, It involves

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risk and involves listening to
the advice of your brothers and

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sisters when you are over
balancing in a different

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direction.
So just keep those things in

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mind.
We go on then, and we look.

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Further in the chapter verse 9.
And once again, this is a God

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taking the time to challenge his
children because he loves.

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Them, by the way, just thinking
back on Chapter 11, brother

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Stephen Hindman just gave me a
beautiful thought.

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I think it’s just so lovely if
you were to.

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Ask the question, Why did God
love Israel?

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And Stephen said.
Well, there’s a multitude of

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answers, but one answer would be
because I love your grandpa, I

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loved Abraham so much, and
because of my love for him, I

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also love you.
Isn’t that beautiful?

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And if the Gentiles, he said,
were to say the same thing, why

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do you love us?
God could say to them, because

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you’re so much like Abraham, you
believe what he believed.

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You trust like he trusted.
So I love you too.

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It takes those passages.
That can be so much technical

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detail, the grammar.
The syntax, The lexicography,

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what is happening as far as the?
Individual word structures are

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concerned.
What were the root origins of

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00:33:32,360 –> 00:33:34,880
these words?
Not just in language, but in

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culture.
All of that stuff.

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History, geography, geology,
biography, all of these things,

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00:33:42,040 –> 00:33:45,680
and you’d miss the point.
And Stephen says something like

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that, and the passage opens up
in a way you’ve never heard it

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00:33:50,160 –> 00:33:54,280
said before.
So that’s just a lovely thought

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00:33:54,280 –> 00:33:56,200
I want to share.
Pass on to you from Brother

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Stephen, he says, O Israel, thou
hast destroyed thyself, but in

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me is thine help, Brother.
You may have broken so many

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00:34:11,920 –> 00:34:15,600
things in your life.
There may be.

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00:34:15,600 –> 00:34:20,560
So much you’ve done wrong that
you wish you could go back and

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00:34:20,560 –> 00:34:24,520
change.
You may have destroyed yourself.

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Your life has burnt to the
ground.

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Does God say to you?
Well, it’s all over.

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00:34:31,679 –> 00:34:34,360
Sorry about about that.
I’m sorry it worked out that way

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00:34:34,360 –> 00:34:42,159
for you, but God says is this in
me is your help.

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Israel did not need to run to.
Egypt, and then run to Assyria

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and then try to play them off
against each other.

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This little nation playing the
great powers off against each

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00:34:53,000 –> 00:34:57,280
other didn’t need to do that.
She just needed to reach out to

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God, her help.
And that’s that’s what is so

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00:35:05,040 –> 00:35:06,800
hard for us.
A.

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Self reliant Western thinking
men and women to get on our

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knees to humble ourselves before
our God and to beg for his help.

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I don’t know how to get through
this.

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Help me to know how to get
through it then.

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Our prayers are not poetry.
It’s not something Shakespeare

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would write.
Or Byron.

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Or Wordsworth.
Then they are messy.

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00:35:39,160 –> 00:35:41,920
They are hard.
They’re difficult.

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They have spikes in them.
They’re imperfect, but they’re

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00:35:47,280 –> 00:35:54,400
us pouring out to God and they
hears those prayers for us, for

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our suffering child, for our
parents, our brothers and our

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sisters.
In me is your help, not in me

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00:36:05,600 –> 00:36:07,960
could be your help.
Might be your help.

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00:36:08,440 –> 00:36:11,560
Possibly under certain
circumstances would be help.

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That’s not God.
That’s government we’re thinking

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00:36:14,640 –> 00:36:25,560
about in In me is your help.
So we need to turn to our God,

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and we need our kids to see and
to know that we are a praying

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00:36:33,560 –> 00:36:40,880
people, a praying people.
And God after he says all the

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things that are.
Going to happen to them, he

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says.
Look verse. 14 I will ransom

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them from the power of the
grave.

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I will redeem them from death.
O death, where is thy plagues?

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O grave, where is thy
destruction?

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00:36:58,040 –> 00:37:00,720
Repentance shall be hid from
mine eyes.

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I’m going to save those of these
people who turned to me.

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I’m going to bring them back
from death, no matter what they

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have to go through now in
correction.

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And you just hold on, sister, in
that trial no one else

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00:37:24,720 –> 00:37:26,880
understands.
Even the people closest to you

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00:37:26,880 –> 00:37:29,320
that.
I love you to distraction.

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Don’t fully know what it is to
be you in this trouble that you

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are in now, but God knows the
Lord Jesus Christ knows.

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Hold on to them, pour out to
God, and believe that He will be

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with you all the way through,
and He’ll get you through.

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There may not be a.
Magical waving away of the

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problem with everything resolved
and tied with a bow.

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That’s American Disneyland.
Stupid television.

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00:38:07,560 –> 00:38:14,920
That’s not real life.
For real life, things are messy,

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00:38:16,480 –> 00:38:19,280
but God is used to putting his
hand into dirt.

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00:38:19,280 –> 00:38:22,680
Isn’t he to make?
People out of it, isn’t he?

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That’s how he made Adam and it’s
how he’s making.

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00:38:26,760 –> 00:38:29,840
You.
He didn’t make Adam out of

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00:38:29,840 –> 00:38:32,920
diamonds, he made him out of
mud.

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So God is worth reaching out to,
believing in, and holding onto

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as he works in the mess of your
life to build the treasure that

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00:38:49,600 –> 00:38:54,760
you need to be for his Kingdom.
So, brothers and sisters, then

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we go to chapter 14, or Israel
return unto the Lord thy God,

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for thou hast fallen by then.
Iniquity take with you words and

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return to the Lord.
Now think of some of the things

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brethren have said in their
prayers.

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It’s not about sacrifice, it’s
not about your first born child.

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00:39:18,360 –> 00:39:20,280
It’s not about any of the things
you can bring.

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But words?
Words, Prayer, loving

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conversation.
A conversation with your Father

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who loves you.
You can’t see him, but in that

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00:39:36,120 –> 00:39:42,320
darkness you can imagine your
hand in his hand, burying you up

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00:39:42,320 –> 00:39:45,560
as a little one and saving you
through the trouble.

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Reach out to him.
Bring words and your heart and

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00:39:53,720 –> 00:39:59,880
an open conversation with him.
Bring these words.

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Whereas for I will.
Heal their backsliding.

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I will love them freely.
That means openly, to the full

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extent, he said.
He would not express his full

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anger to them, but his love or
his love in abundance.

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Can you see it?
Can you see his hand?

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No, but you you, you know where
you can see and hear it.

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And the brothers and sisters
that love you put their hand on

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00:40:28,400 –> 00:40:30,040
your shoulders.
They walk by.

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They don’t have eloquent words,
but they give it a squeeze.

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And you know they love you.
The old sister that comes up to

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00:40:40,760 –> 00:40:43,160
you and says, you know, dear, I
don’t.

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00:40:43,160 –> 00:40:47,080
I don’t know what you’re going
through, but I’m here if you

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00:40:47,080 –> 00:40:51,680
want to have a cup of tea and
know that I won’t repeat a word.

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I’m just a good listener.
God shows you his.

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Love through the love of your
brothers and sisters.

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And that’s why we need to be
there in the Ecclesia to express

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00:41:07,440 –> 00:41:13,720
the love of God and Christ to
each other in all of these

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00:41:13,720 –> 00:41:20,960
worker day back breaking
troubles and trials that we’re

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faced with.
And so we end verse 9 who is

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wise and he’ll understand these
things.

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Prudent, and he’ll know them.
For the ways of the Lord are

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right.
And the just shall walk in them,

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but the transgressors shall fall
therein, and so does does

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00:41:45,880 –> 00:41:50,760
understanding mark our.
Development and our maturing.

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As brothers and sisters do, we
demonstrate that we know who God

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00:41:58,680 –> 00:42:02,600
is.
God is very stingy in his

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00:42:02,600 –> 00:42:05,400
investing.
Let me tell you what I mean by

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that when he allows you to go
through the tunnel of fire.

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That you are going through.
He’s going to want to reinvest

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00:42:17,720 –> 00:42:22,760
that.
Over and over and over and over

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00:42:23,920 –> 00:42:31,360
as you help other people
quietly, unobtrusively, without

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00:42:31,360 –> 00:42:36,440
fanfare.
Sometimes, Sister, you’re

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00:42:36,440 –> 00:42:40,400
helping us to sit beside the
sister who’s crying and pouring

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00:42:40,400 –> 00:42:43,800
out her heartbreak to you and
just holding her hand.

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And what gives you the strength
and courage and the the ability

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00:42:48,480 –> 00:42:53,640
to push past shyness to do that?
What you’ve been through, what

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00:42:53,640 –> 00:42:58,240
you’ve been through, whatever
the trouble that you’ve worked

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00:42:58,240 –> 00:43:02,000
through, hanging in there
through that difficult part of

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00:43:02,000 –> 00:43:04,800
the painting or the musical
piece that you’re trying to

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00:43:04,800 –> 00:43:10,480
learn.
You learn so much about the

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00:43:10,480 –> 00:43:16,280
human heart and all of its
frailties.

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00:43:17,840 –> 00:43:22,320
All of its fragility in the
trouble that you go through in

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00:43:22,320 –> 00:43:27,640
your life.
So use it for good and when you

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00:43:27,640 –> 00:43:30,480
get through it or get able to
cope with it.

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00:43:31,680 –> 00:43:33,480
Thank God that he’s getting you
through.

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00:43:34,760 –> 00:43:40,280
Now hold on to him, brothers and
sisters, with everything you’ve

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got in the midst of the ecclesia
with your family, because he.

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00:43:48,320 –> 00:43:53,640
He is your help.
He is your help.