Jim Styles – Living as a Member of God’s Family – Class 5 – Living for Others and Not Just Ourselves

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Everyone, we’ve come to the end,
right?

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Well, actually it ends in the
exhortation tomorrow.

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But I I hope this week that, you
know, I I like to throw out a

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few things for people to talk
about and think about things

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I’ve worked on over my lifetime.
And they’re just things that Sue

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and I have decided we we think
we’ve learned the hard way and

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this there are ideas for people
to discuss.

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So whether you agree with
everything or not, it’s it’s

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always good discussion to fine
tune our understanding of the

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truth.
It’s not BASF material it’s it’s

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more just looking at the how
this all works out.

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I I felt bad yesterday though in
rushing through God’s election.

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I just wanted to in the end just
finish up a couple of things for

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5 minutes maybe on God’s
election because I didn’t give

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you the passages.
Besides Romans not have

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convinced me that that that’s
what Paul’s actually talking

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about.
I I think that the basic concept

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though, that I had to come to
myself is that I had to get out

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of this mindset of thinking it’s
about me and my children and my

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family and my ecclesia and
realize no, no, it’s it’s not

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mine.
It’s God’s.

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It’s all God’s and he has the
right as Job is learning slowly

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in our second class that you
know, we can’t control

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behemoths, we can’t control
Leviathan.

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So how would we ever think we
can pick out and pick and choose

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who who God invites to his
family?

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It’s his choice, and so we pray
about it a lot more.

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But you look at how this comes
up elsewhere in the scriptures.

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In Luke 10, you see what happens
when Jesus is talking about the

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fact that he rejoiced in the
Spirit and thanks God that he

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had hidden these things from the
wise, hidden them from the wise

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and prudent, and revealed them
to bathe Even so, Father for it.

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So it seemed good in your sight.
And as he says in verse 22, Luke

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10, all things have been
delivered to me by my Father,

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and no one knows the Son except
the Father and who the Father

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and who the Father is.
He’s got the Son and the one to

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whom the Son wills to reveal
Him.

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See, that’s not everybody
getting an opportunity.

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That’s not random chance.
It’s like who the Son wills to

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reveal him.
It’s now Jesus’s choice as well.

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That’s one of the things Christ
has been given the authority of

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making those kind of decisions.
Or in John chapter 6, Jesus

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pointed out in verse 37 that all
that the Father gives me will

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come to me.
All that the Father gives me,

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Not everybody, it’s those whom
the Father gives him.

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Or verse 44.
No one can come to me unless the

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Father who sent me draws him.
This is God’s calling.

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This is him pulling out of this
world, people that he’s drawing

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to him, and I will raise him up
at the last day.

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And in verse 65 he said,
therefore I’ve said to you that

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no one can come to me unless it
has been granted to him by my

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father.
These are passages we sort of

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read over them sometimes or
whatever, or just sort of maybe

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just don’t understand, or we
make up some other excuse.

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But it’s all about the Father
granting us to come to him.

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It’s his invitation or in Acts
chapter 2 that issue where that

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when Peter was out preaching to
the Jews in Acts 2 and he said

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to repent and be baptized.
But in verse 39 he goes on for

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the promises to you and to your
children and to all who are afar

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off.
We might think that well that’s

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everybody right to all who are
afar off or the gospel has

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preached all the world, but that
all has to be clarified by as

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many as the Lord our God will
call.

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See, it keeps coming up in the
scriptures.

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This idea of narrowing the field
whoever God is calling and

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that’s that’s what you see.
Or in X chapter 16, when called

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when Paul was out preaching and
he’s talking to Lydia and she

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hears the word, it says that the
Lord opened her heart to heed

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the things spoken by Paul.
He opened her heart.

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See, that’s like Paul’s
statement that he makes in

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Ephesians chapter one when he’s
praying for the the Ephesians of

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Ecclesia and prays that that the
God of of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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the Father of glory, may give
you a spirit of wisdom and of

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revelation and the knowledge of
him.

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That God will give you this.
He reveals it to them, having

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the eyes of your hearts
enlightened so that you may know

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what is the hope to which he has
called you.

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This is God working in our lives
allowing us to understand.

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It’s not how much I study the
scriptures, although that’s

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important.
We have to be praying at the

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same time that God will open our
eyes.

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I’m not going to get it myself.
John Thomas would have been the

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1st to admit that he didn’t come
to the truth because he studied

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so hard and studied so hard and
he found it.

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He would have been the first one
to tell us that God had opened

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his eyes.
He had to do the studying, but

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he had to be praying that God
would enlighten him when so many

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people of his day and age were
not enlightened and give God the

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glory in the end.
You see, it’s not about all that

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study we do.
It’s about God finally revealing

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it to us.
Not that we sit there and just

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say and ensure that, well, I’m
going to exhort tomorrow, so

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I’ll just wait until it comes to
me.

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That isn’t how it works.
We still have to do our part,

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brother and sister and young
people.

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We’ve got to do the legwork.
But at the same time, there were

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so many people out there
studying the Bible who don’t

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understand and God allows us to
understand.

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That was a great lesson of Paul,
that he finally realized for all

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of his research with Gamalia and
all that study they did and all

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the qualifications that he had,
it wasn’t until Christ blinded

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him and opened his eyes that he
finally understood.

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And I I really think that’s why
Paul could write Romans 9.

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So in the end, you know, you
look in Romans 8 where he

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actually mentions about those
who are called according to his

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purpose.
So those are just some of the

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passages you can look at.
And there’s more than that.

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You’ll see as you’re doing the
readings, but the implications

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of that subject are that it
causes us to pray for our

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children.
We pray for them.

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We don’t just do the readings
with them.

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We don’t just try to get the
truth into them and force it

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into them.
We pray that God will do the

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impossible, like Jacob holding
on to that Angel and he won’t

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let him go, which the Bible
described as wrestling.

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He’s asking that Angel to do the
impossible, save my family,

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because he realized that he
couldn’t do it.

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It was a total failure.
Everything was falling apart.

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So we do everything we can to
teach them God’s ways, but we

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realize we have to come to a
realization that it is God’s

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choice.
And if they do choose God’s

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family, if they’re baptized and
they love the truth, we can

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rejoice in it and thank God that
he did it.

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Not me, not me.
It’s it’s all about God.

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And you never give up because
you you never know.

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God waits a long time to call
some people.

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Sometimes they have to go
through all these experiences of

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life, like the prodigal son, and
then finally they come back.

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And so we pray and we pray and
we keep praying.

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We keep the door open all the
time waiting for that, and

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that’s what we’ll do for our
kids.

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I’ve also found in this subject
that it brings peace to so many

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of our brethren and especially
our sisters, who live with the

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guilt in our community of
brothers and sisters looking at

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them and saying, well, you
raised five children and two of

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them loved the truth and three
of them walked away, and that’s

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because you’re just not a good
parent.

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Now, you might say, well, I’d
never say that, but you talk to

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people and you’ll find out that
is the perception that they have

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of our community.
If you raise five children and

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all of yours come in, the truth,
you can talk about all your

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children and they’re baptized
and they’re all.

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And then they’re sitting there
thinking, well, you must think

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I’m a bad parent.
And we don’t know whether God

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has called them or not.
Every generation, he has to

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remind us that it’s not us.
It’s not what we will.

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It’s not how hard we work.
And he reminds us by having some

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of those children not called,
some of them are not called just

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as they have been all through
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So you look, you look at this,
it really does bring peace to

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those people because Abraham
would have had to like, somehow

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reconcile for 14 years.
He raised Ishmael.

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He circumcised Ishmael.
It’s like watching a child

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baptized and and God says, and
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with Isaac.
That would be really hard to

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take.
And then in the end, you got to

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send Ishmael away.
You got to his own him.

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He’s not even your son anymore.
But that’s God’s election.

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It’s his choice because Abraham,
he can’t save Ishmael.

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And he would have realized that
Isaac loved Esau and he he

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wanted him included.
He loved him so bad, not just

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for his food, which he did like,
but, you know, as a father, he

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would have loved that child and
tried everything he could.

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Or look at David with his
children.

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His family’s a disaster, you
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And and look at what happened
with his kids that God has to

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remind every generation, all of
us today, he’s going to remind

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all of us with our kids now, our
grandkids, that it’s all of God.

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It’s his choice.
It’s his.

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Now, see, that’s a little bit
different than the Cain and Abel

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story some of you have wondered
about, like, to what extent I

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would take this, but I really
believe Cain and Abel were both

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invited.
They were invited.

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And Cain walked away from the
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And and we don’t know all these
cases.

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We don’t know who the invitation
goes out to.

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We just don’t know.
So we keep the door open.

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We keep working with people.
We pray for all of them and hope

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that God will bring them in.
That’s what I have learned from

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this whole subject, So that’s
enough on that.

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What about today?
You know, learning to live the

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subject today is about living
for others and not just

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ourselves.
I’ve really challenged the

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younger ones here that you are
growing up in a challenging

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world because the world today is
all focused with technology on

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me.
You are the ME group.

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You know everything that you do
today is about what do you want

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and it’s all focused around what
you guys do.

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I remember talking to my son who
works at Ford Motor Company for

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years and I was talking to him
about how Ford Ford Motor

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Company, at least in the United
States, I don’t know about here

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but they totally changed their
advertising.

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They the, the, the car companies
used to tell us about how good

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their cars were, how good the
service record was, how the

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design was good and they would
show us all about how good their

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cars were.
And now the advertising is the

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marketing.
They they put up a car and they

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and they put some beautiful girl
there while they have you

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driving through and they they’re
selling a lifestyle.

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Then they don’t tell you
anything at all about the car.

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It’s it’s unbelievable.
And he and he told me that

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that’s that’s what marketing
does now they’re selling you a

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lifestyle.
You get this car and look at

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what it’s going to do for your
life and look at all the people

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you’re going to attract like you
and this is what they do.

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The marketing is totally changed
to like it’s it’s all about you

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and your life and what you can
have and and it’s not about the

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car anymore.
This is what’s happened.

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So you know you’re looking
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I I really think that the phones
have have really played into

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this a lot where everybody’s out
there today taking their selfies

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and you got to be able to reach
far out there and make sure you

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hold it still.
And my kids laugh at me because

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when I aren’t really very good
at it and they’re always telling

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us that dad, you’re holding the
phone wrong.

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Especially mom says when you’re
taking a selfie of a bunch of

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people you don’t do it like
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You got to turn the phone like
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And it’s like, yeah, I like the
ones I can talk to and just say

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something and it says takes a
picture, right.

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So anyways, but you know, you
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This is happening all the time
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Everywhere you go, this is what
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And people are just like putting
themselves out there on the

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Internet.
So everybody can see my life,

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follow me on Facebook and look
at me on Twitter and all these,

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well, X now, but look at me on
all these things and and they

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look at each other.
Oh, I have so many followers now

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and it’s this is what you are
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The older ones aren’t because we
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But that’s what’s happening.
You are really being challenged

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today about it’s all about you.
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going to affect our our, our,
our life and the truth because

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it isn’t all about me.
That’s really not what it is.

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It’s really all about God and
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And yeah, guys do this too.
I remember going to places and

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they even sold selfie sticks at
the place so that you could

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like, make sure you get your
stick way out there and take

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those pictures.
It’s it’s it’s all about being

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able to broadcast back to
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I got to admit, you know, we
send Sue and I are sending

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pictures back to our kids all
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We we send them back to our
family on on WhatsApp or

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something like that but it’s
Facebook.

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Do we have to tell everybody
over in the United States like

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what we’ve been doing here at
this Bible school?

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It’s like I don’t think we
really need to do that and it’s

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really opened up the door for
child predators to be able to

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get on Facebook and look around
and see what you’ve got what

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your house is like.
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consequences from the some of
this stuff today we we do have

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to be careful look at all these
little icons.

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I think there were a bunch of
them but this morning Jack was

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going through the remember all
those little pictures that you

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were going through and
identifying all those things

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that they left on table last
night but look at all those

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things.
You know most of those I look at

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those and I don’t even know what
they are but you know some of

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them the FI recognize but I
don’t know most of the rest of

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them well maybe the yellow one
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I’ve seen that before.
But our young, our young people,

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you all probably can identify
every one of them, right?

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Or at least a bunch of them.
These are all things that we

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have to be careful that these
things don’t just eat up your

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life.
And and that’s my warning to you

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today, because what this does is
it takes away your opportunity

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to serve.
And it comes time to work in a

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collegial life or work in your
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And and we’re sitting there
scrolling down the phones all

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the time in the morning and we
say, oh I don’t have time for

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that.
This stuff eats up your life.

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I I’ve watched people scroll
through Facebook and I keep

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wanting and where does it end?
Doesn’t doesn’t the scrolling

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eventually end And it’s like
they can scroll for hours and it

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just keeps scrolling And this is
what’s happened in our world

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today.
So it it’s not that all of this

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is bad but you have to work at
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You do and and the world today
is not going to help you with

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that.
You have to set parameters

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around you give it so much time
or you limit, you know what?

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Who you’re gonna, who your
friends are gonna be, or or

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whatever you do.
There have to be limits that you

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apply because this world at
large, they’re not gonna help

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you with that.
They’ll just, they’ll be glad to

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eat up your time.
More clicks, more clicks, more

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money, more advertisements, all
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It’s all about clicks today.
So you look at in Galatians

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chapter 5, when the Apostle Paul
was trying to encourage the

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Galatians that you were called
to freedom.

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He says in verse 13.
But only do not use your freedom

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as an opportunity for the flesh,
but through love serve one

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another.
We have to have time for this in

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our lives.
We have to set aside time to

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through love serve one another
for the whole law is fulfilled.

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In one word, you shall love your
neighbor as yourself.

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But if we bite and devour each
other, if we just get involved

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in ecclesial things and all we
do is war and fight and all that

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kind of stuff, it’s a waste of
time.

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But we we got to walk by the
Spirit and not gratify the

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desires of the flesh and those
who walk by the spirit, when

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you’re doing them for God, it
will motivate us to do far more

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than we would ever have done for
law.

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So I really believe in this
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The best place to be in looking
for how this plays out is the

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life of Jesus Christ.
No better.

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No better example than Jesus
about how we can look at serving

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one another.
You get down to the last night

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of his mortal life.
You know, this is it.

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He’s at the end.
And for most of us, we would all

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be sitting there saying, well,
you know, I got a really rough

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day tomorrow.
And you know what can you all do

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to help me?
That that’s the way we would be.

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I I know what we’re like.
We we want to know like somebody

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help me get through this.
And what does He do last night

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of his life?
He sits down with His disciples,

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and He says with fervent desire.
I have desired to eat this

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Passover with you before I
suffer.

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For I say to you I will no
longer eat of it until it is

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fulfilled.
Kingdom of God.

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And He spends that whole evening
with His disciples, trying to

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help them understand, and at the
same time hoping they could help

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him, which they didn’t.
But he wanted them to.

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He wanted to help them to get
through this, ’cause he knew it

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was going to be rough on them.
And he wasn’t going to eat until

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eat and drink again until the
Kingdom of God comes, he tells

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him in verse 21.
But behold, the hand of my

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betrayer is with me on the
table.

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And truly the Son of Man goes as
it has been determined.

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But woe to that man by whom he
is betrayed.

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He wanted help from his
disciples, but he didn’t get it.

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Didn’t get it.
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he didn’t get it from them.
So what do they do?

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Luke 22 the the dispute arises
amongst them about which of them

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should be the greatest.
That’s what they’re worried

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about.
All the disciples, all they

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could think about is, oh, you’re
talking about the Kingdom,

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right?
You’re talking, I heard

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something about the Kingdom in
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And then eventually there was
going to be.

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Yes.
Who’s going to be the greatest

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in the Kingdom?
That was their focus, you know.

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And he says to them that, well,
that’s what the people of this

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world do.
But it shouldn’t be like that

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around you.
He was the greatest among you.

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Let him be as the younger he who
governs, as he who serves.

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That’s what he wanted them to
do.

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He wanted them to learn from
this, that they would serve one

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another.
Look at in Luke 22, he prays for

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Peter.
He gets very specific to one

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individual.
And he tells Peter, I pray for

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you that your faith should not
fail.

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And when you have returned to
me, strengthen your brethren,

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which again, you know, you find
that after the resurrection, he

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still goes back to Peter.
Feed my sheep.

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But he warned them at that.
I’ll tell you that the Peter

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that the rooster will not curl
this day before you will deny me

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three times that you that you
even know me.

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But he tried to warn Peter about
the challenges that were coming.

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See, this was Christ’s focus on
the hardest day of his life.

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He’s focusing on how can I help
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How can I help you, Peter?
How can I help all of you get

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through this?
And then can’t you help me too.

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And but they didn’t.
They they just let him down, you

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know.
And that’s why when we’re

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involved in families and a
collegial life and we get

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involved in situations, as a lot
of you will do, or even in young

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people in CYCS, you get involved
with situations.

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What we got to do is remember
like, Christ, we’re there to

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help people.
We’re we’re not there for me and

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and what I can get out of it so
much.

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But we want to help people and
improve the situations.

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Don’t just be a a couch potato
criticizer sitting on the

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sidelines criticizing what’s
going on but unwilling to get

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involved and help.
That’s Jesus, he he got

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involved.
He was helping.

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So in John 13 we find out that
when supper actually this is

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supposed to be during supper,
not as their King James as

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they’re being ended.
Any of you that follow timelines

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on the Last Supper, you’ll find
out that really messes you up as

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figuring out where we are.
It wasn’t being ended.

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It was during supper that the
devil already having put it into

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the heart of Judas Iscariot,
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And Jesus, knowing that the
Father had given all things into

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his hand and that he had come
from God, It was going to God.

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He knows all of this.
He sees in real everything

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that’s coming.
And what does he do?

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He gets down on the ground,
takes, you know, something, a

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bowl of water and in a basin.
And he begins to wash the

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disciples feet and to wipe them
with the towel with which he was

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girded, because he understood
that just tell them about you’ve

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got to be a you’ve got to serve
one another.

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To tell them and talk with words
was one thing, but to get down

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on the floor and wash their feet
at that point, that was a whole

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different story.
And and let’s face it, for for

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all the brethren that, you know,
you get up and give exhortations

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in ecclesias or you get up on a
a day like this and A and a

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gathering.
We say all these things what,

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what, what our children are
really looking at is what do we

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do when we go home.
You know, Dad, you said all

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those great things on the
platform, but you know, now it’s

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time to wash the dishes.
You know what?

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What are you going to do?
You’re going to just say, well,

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that’s somebody else’s job or,
you know what, it’s time to

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change a diaper or or whatever
it is.

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We are there to serve brethren.
And this world would tell us

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that, oh, you know, you have to
divide up the jobs.

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And that’s men’s work and that’s
women’s work.

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We can help.
We, we can all help and jump in,

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you know, take out the trash,
what, whatever it is.

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Nothing should be too low for us
to be willing to do.

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Getting down and washing their
feet, that’s about as low as we

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would think you could go.
And Jesus was willing to do

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that.
And that’s the spirit we should

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have of being willing to serve
one another.

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Don’t ever say I I can’t do that
job because that’s beneath me.

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We can all help out.
You look in John 13 as you’re

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still going through this.
After he had finished washing

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their feet and taking the
garments, he sits down again and

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he says to them, Do you know
what I’ve done for you?

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You call me Teacher and Lord,
which is true?

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Or you know well, you know
that’s right, for I am.

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And if I then your Lord and
Teacher have washed your feet,

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you also ought to wash one
anothers feet.

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We don’t literally do that
today.

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You know.
I don’t think you know you can

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do it.
I guess is a ritual.

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I’ve seen people do that where
you can practice.

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I think one of our Cycs one
times did that and we just all

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practice washing each other’s
feet.

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But it was more like a ritual
procedure you go through.

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It wasn’t some kind of daily
thing.

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But what he’s trying to get at
is the lowest jobs we should be

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willing to help one another to
serve.

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Never say I’m above all those
things by giving you an example

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that you should do is I have
done for you.

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That’s what he’s want.
That’s what he wanted to leave

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for us to see on the hardest
night of his life.

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And you, you look brothers and
sisters for some of us who think

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we go home and we think like our
life is really challenging and

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there’s a tendency to get into
depression and maybe we get

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discouraged that things are
spiraling down.

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How did Jesus get through this
life?

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How did he get through that
night?

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He didn’t get it through by
thinking about all the things

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that he’s going to have to
suffer and why this wasn’t fair

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for him and why everybody else’s
life is better than mine.

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He got through the night by
serving his his, his disciples.

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He got involved.
He showed them he was trying to

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help other people, and that’s
what motivated him to keep going

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forward.
It was all about saving us and

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leaving us, an example that we
could follow in his steps.

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And it’s a great warning to all
of us that whatever is happening

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in our lives, look to Jesus, how
did he get through it?

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Not by just thinking about all
how bad things were for him.

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He got through it by
volunteering for jobs in the

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Ecclesia, helping out every way
he could with other people.

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Never saying a job is is beneath
me and I can’t do that.

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He got involved and that’s what
kept him going.

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And if it worked for him,
brothers and sisters and young

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people, that will work for us.
It is a huge motivator.

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Or you look in John 13 where he
gives them a new commandment, he

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says a new command.
It wasn’t really new, as John

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says later on in in his letters,
but it was.

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It was new to them because they
weren’t used to seeing this idea

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of like their leaders getting
down and washing feet.

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That was new to them, even
though it was really old, but a

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new commandment.
I give you that you love one

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another as I have loved you,
that you should also love one

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another.
And by this you know people will

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know.
And you will know that you are

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my disciples if you have love
for one another.

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See, that’s the test that John
then picked from the He.

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He took this to heart, and he
wrote it right into his letters

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and his epistles later on.
And he said, there’s that test

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for love.
You know, you can say, well, I,

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I love everybody here.
I love all the people in my

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ecclesia.
Are you willing to, though,

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really get down there and serve
for them, help them out, get

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them through their troubles?
That’s the test as to whether or

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not we really, you know, love
the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Do we really love one another?
Or in John 14 when he goes on

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and he says, in my father’s
house are many rooms, there’s a

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lot of spaces in my father’s
house.

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And if it were not so, I I would
have told you, I’m going there

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to prepare a place for you.
That’s the focus.

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His focus wasn’t on all the bad
things that were going to happen

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to him.
He’s going to be tortured and

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crucified and all this.
What he did is he focused on the

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the end result.
I’m going to my father’s house.

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I’m on my way to the father, he
said in John 13.

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That’s where I’m going.
Well, and for us, we’re honored

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we did the Kingdom, and that
should motivate us to get

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through all the things of this
life.

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When we really do see what the
Kingdom will be like, how

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wonderful it will be to join the
angels in their work, it it

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motivates us.
We’re going there, and he was

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going there to prepare a place
for us, a place so that he could

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work with us and send the com,
the comforter back to work with

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these people.
That’s what he’s doing.

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And so Jesus, he does.
He gets crucified, He gets

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raised from the dead and he gets
sends to heaven.

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And now he can work with these
people and that’s what he was

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00:25:51,400 –> 00:25:54,960
looking forward to working with
all of us, like we would hope to

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do in the Kingdom for the
mortals.

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He’s going to send them the the
comforter so that it will help

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them get through those days.
And he told me if I, if I don’t

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go, but I don’t go through this,
I I won’t be able to help you.

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And so I’ll send you the helper
later on, as some of the

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versions actually put that.
And so in John 14, he said,

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look, because I go to my father,
you know, I can do greater works

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than all these things that
you’ve seen so far.

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And whatever you ask in my name
that I will do that the Father

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may be glorified in the Son.
If you ask anything in my name,

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I will do it.
I will do it.

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Isn’t that interesting when we
carefully read that it’s it’s

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it’s not that Jesus has to then
listen and go ask God, is it OK

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00:26:39,800 –> 00:26:44,080
if I do this?
He has the authority today to

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make that decision.
He’s been given all authority in

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heaven and earth, and he’s
working with all of us today.

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He’s sending out his angels to
work in our lives.

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And if we ask anything in his
name, you know that’s for the

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good of the family, you know, He
says he will do it.

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And see, when you see that, you
know, if you ask anything in my

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name, I will do it.
It’s caused me to reread this

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whole idea and rethink the idea
of ending our prayers in Jesus.

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Name 3 words.
See what he’s really talking

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00:27:17,200 –> 00:27:19,840
about here.
Isn’t that we Tech 3 words onto

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the end of our prayers.
He’s talking about asking that

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we are living in his name.
We are in Him.

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We are part of the family.
We have that eternal life

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working in US.
And if we’re doing that, we talk

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to Him and we are literally in
His name.

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It it’s it’s not just three
words to tack on the end of a

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00:27:42,040 –> 00:27:45,800
prayer.
It’s a meaningful way of life

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that He’s after, not just three
words and not that it’s wrong.

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And I say in Jesus name too.
And I end prayer sometimes, but

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I I wouldn’t want people to just
think that, oh that that’s it.

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You got to put the right words
on the end of a prayer.

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It’s not about words, it’s about
a way of life.

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Which is why you don’t find
people in the New Testament when

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they offered prayers.
They don’t end their prayers in

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Jesus name.
They they were living in the

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name.
They were in him and been found

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00:28:13,000 –> 00:28:16,000
in him.
And it was a way of life more so

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than it was just three words
that we tack on.

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00:28:19,440 –> 00:28:22,880
So in John 14, then he talks
about going to the Father, and

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whatever you ask in my name
again, I will do it.

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And if you ask me anything in my
name, I will do it.

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Whoops.
That’s the one We looked at.

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John 15.
Look at this one.

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We, I think we looked at this
one earlier in the week about

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being his friends.
And this is my commandment.

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He says that if you love one
another as I have loved you,

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greater love has no one than
this.

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And one laid on his life for his
friends and I.

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You are my friends.
If you do whatever I command

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you, but no longer do, I call
you servants.

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00:28:48,800 –> 00:28:51,120
For a servant does not know what
his master is doing.

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But I have called you friends
for all things that I’ve heard

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from my father.
I made no to you.

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See, that’s what friendship is
really all about.

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Now I know there’s there’s some
people that are worried that if

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we called Jesus my master and my
friend, as is in our hymn book,

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you know, if we do that, that
that’s lowering the relationship

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too low.
That’s treating Jesus like our

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friend.
We have some people who don’t

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even like calling Jesus our
brother.

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John Thomas used to call him our
elder brother.

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He would use that term.
But the Bible says that he calls

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us his friends.
He wants a relationship with

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you, like a friendship.
Even though we still at the same

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still respect him and understand
he is our Lord and our master.

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But he’s he’s not like a slave
master who mistreats us.

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He’s a master who is our friend
and we can trust him and we know

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he loves us and he cares about
us.

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And on our generation we were
growing up, we didn’t hear much

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00:29:49,000 –> 00:29:50,880
about that.
People were so worried about

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00:29:51,000 –> 00:29:53,600
having a friendship and a
relationship with Jesus, it

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00:29:53,600 –> 00:29:57,280
sounded too evangelical.
But it’s biblical.

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00:29:57,280 –> 00:30:00,280
Brothers and sisters, we we
can’t resist what the Bible

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00:30:00,280 –> 00:30:04,040
says.
He He wants us to be his friends

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and he says in verse 16, look at
you didn’t choose me.

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I chose you.
This is that election idea.

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And then appointed you that you
should go and bear fruit.

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That’s what.
That’s the the Jesus Christ that

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we have.
So he wants a relationship with

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00:30:19,760 –> 00:30:24,000
us, one of the great reasons God
gave his son.

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If you if you think about why
was it necessary that God have a

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son.
Yes, he declared God right and

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everything he declared his
father was right.

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He what we call the
righteousness of God.

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But the problem all along with
people, with human people, is

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God is so powerful, as Job would
find out.

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And he’s so overwhelming, as Job
had said, I’d be afraid to even

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00:30:46,680 –> 00:30:49,400
talk to him.
But if he ever did come to talk

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00:30:49,400 –> 00:30:51,280
to me, I would just like,
cringe.

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00:30:51,520 –> 00:30:55,480
He’s God and and what happens
when he brings Israel to the

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mountain and the mountain’s on
fire and it’s quaking?

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The people, they wanted to run
away, they were scared of God.

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And So what he has done for us
is said, OK, I’ll send you my

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son.
He has your nature.

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00:31:10,680 –> 00:31:13,680
He knows what you are like.
He he’s not God.

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00:31:13,840 –> 00:31:18,360
He’s one of you.
And now you can talk to him, you

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00:31:18,360 –> 00:31:22,560
can learn about him, you can
come to him, and he can be the

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00:31:22,560 –> 00:31:27,280
great high priest who will draw
you into immortality with me.

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00:31:27,520 –> 00:31:31,640
That’s how far God was willing
to go to save us, to take away

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00:31:31,640 –> 00:31:35,480
all the excuses that oh, I I
can’t do this because just God

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00:31:35,480 –> 00:31:37,360
is too powerful.
And I can’t ask him that.

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00:31:37,360 –> 00:31:40,960
I can’t talk to him about that.
There’s no excuses anymore

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00:31:40,960 –> 00:31:45,040
because he has sent his son.
He has brought it down to our

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00:31:45,040 –> 00:31:49,760
level, our level.
And you see, it wasn’t because

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00:31:50,000 –> 00:31:55,280
we needed somebody to, like, get
in between US and God so that he

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00:31:55,280 –> 00:31:57,960
could, like, go to the Father.
Now sitting next to God and

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00:31:57,960 –> 00:32:00,640
saying, well, I know what these
people are.

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00:32:00,640 –> 00:32:02,960
I know what Jim’s like.
He’s fighting with this.

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00:32:02,960 –> 00:32:05,560
He’s got this human nature.
You know, I had it too.

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00:32:05,560 –> 00:32:08,600
I know what he’s going through.
So could you could you please

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00:32:08,600 –> 00:32:12,600
forgive him for my sake?
That’s not really what it’s

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00:32:12,600 –> 00:32:14,400
about.
That’s what Christianity would

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00:32:14,400 –> 00:32:16,720
teach.
That’s not what’s in the Bible

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00:32:16,720 –> 00:32:18,360
though.
Brother and sisters, that isn’t

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00:32:18,360 –> 00:32:21,720
what’s happening.
Jesus doesn’t even need to ask

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00:32:21,720 –> 00:32:24,400
his father whether he can
forgive us or not.

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00:32:24,640 –> 00:32:28,040
He has been given all authority
in heaven and earth.

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00:32:28,640 –> 00:32:31,360
What God realized is that we
have a problem.

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00:32:31,400 –> 00:32:33,840
I have the problem.
I’m a Sinner and I commit a

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00:32:33,840 –> 00:32:36,720
Sinner.
I’m afraid to talk to God, so he

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00:32:36,720 –> 00:32:42,480
has sent his son to convince me
to draw nigh now with A to the

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throne of grace.
We Paul says we can approach

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00:32:45,120 –> 00:32:49,080
boldly with our high priest
because he understands our we.

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We realize He understands.
We didn’t think God did, but

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00:32:54,160 –> 00:32:56,000
think about it for a minute all
along.

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00:32:56,000 –> 00:33:00,320
God has always understood.
He’s always known what it’s like

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00:33:00,320 –> 00:33:01,920
for us to go through these
things.

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00:33:02,280 –> 00:33:04,200
He has loved us from the
beginning.

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00:33:04,360 –> 00:33:08,080
He did all of this to save us,
you know, You know, if you think

637
00:33:08,080 –> 00:33:10,000
about it, like, who did this for
David?

638
00:33:10,000 –> 00:33:13,400
Who did this for Abraham?
Who did all this, this pleading

639
00:33:13,400 –> 00:33:14,880
with God stuff?
There was.

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00:33:14,880 –> 00:33:16,960
There was.
Jesus wasn’t around back then,

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00:33:17,280 –> 00:33:21,480
but all these people had to come
to get a relationship with God

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00:33:21,480 –> 00:33:24,840
so that they would feel
comfortable asking God for help

643
00:33:25,080 –> 00:33:28,480
and coming to the throne of
grace and realizing he would

644
00:33:28,480 –> 00:33:31,200
extend mercy.
That’s what he’s looking for,

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00:33:31,200 –> 00:33:34,320
this loving, trusting
relationship with us.

646
00:33:34,720 –> 00:33:38,200
And so that’s what what Christ
was trying to do in the end.

647
00:33:38,400 –> 00:33:40,920
And he tried to tell them, look,
I’ve got to go away.

648
00:33:40,920 –> 00:33:44,320
If I go away right now, I’m, I’m
sorry, I’ve got to leave you.

649
00:33:44,320 –> 00:33:48,600
But if I go away, it’s to your
advantage, he says in John 16

650
00:33:49,080 –> 00:33:51,080
and verse seven.
I’ll tell you the truth.

651
00:33:51,080 –> 00:33:53,360
It is to your advantage that I
go away.

652
00:33:53,360 –> 00:33:56,880
For if I don’t go away, the
helper will not come to you.

653
00:33:57,200 –> 00:34:00,720
But if I depart and I send them
to you, then he will come.

654
00:34:00,920 –> 00:34:03,560
He’ll convict the world of sin
and righteousness and of

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00:34:03,560 –> 00:34:07,160
judgement, and it’s all because
he’s going to the Father.

656
00:34:07,760 –> 00:34:09,719
So you think about how this
played out.

657
00:34:09,719 –> 00:34:12,719
Then with all this, he’s trying
to convince the disciples to

658
00:34:12,719 –> 00:34:14,840
help him.
They don’t catch on at all.

659
00:34:15,159 –> 00:34:18,560
He takes Peter, Andrew and and
Peter, James and John, and he

660
00:34:18,560 –> 00:34:20,600
takes them up there.
And he says, can you sit there

661
00:34:20,600 –> 00:34:23,719
for a minute and watch with me
while I I talk to my father and

662
00:34:23,719 –> 00:34:26,760
he’s praying to God for help.
And they let him down.

663
00:34:26,760 –> 00:34:29,199
They fall asleep.
They fall asleep.

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00:34:29,639 –> 00:34:32,679
And so then you have the the
situation where, well, they’re

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00:34:32,679 –> 00:34:35,000
not going to help him.
What’s God going to do?

666
00:34:35,400 –> 00:34:40,679
He sends the helper.
He sends the Angel to help Jesus

667
00:34:40,679 –> 00:34:44,880
and to strengthen him, to to
intercede between this mind of

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00:34:44,880 –> 00:34:48,320
the flesh that he had, this this
mind that we’ve the devil that’s

669
00:34:48,320 –> 00:34:50,719
in us that says I don’t want to
go through this, I don’t want to

670
00:34:50,719 –> 00:34:52,280
go through it.
Isn’t there some other way?

671
00:34:52,679 –> 00:34:55,719
And the spiritual mind that’s
saying I know I want to do your

672
00:34:55,719 –> 00:34:59,320
will, I want to do your will.
And he needs somebody to

673
00:34:59,320 –> 00:35:03,000
strengthen that spiritual mind
so that it rises up above the

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00:35:03,000 –> 00:35:06,480
devil in him.
And the Angel plays that role.

675
00:35:06,800 –> 00:35:10,440
He was the intercessor, as we
would call it for Jesus.

676
00:35:10,920 –> 00:35:13,560
Or like when you look at what’s
happened in our world today,

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00:35:14,160 –> 00:35:17,680
people have messed this all up.
They they think that Jesus is

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00:35:17,680 –> 00:35:19,520
the intercessor, pleading with
God.

679
00:35:19,520 –> 00:35:22,800
Please forgive us because they
think of the angry God.

680
00:35:23,000 –> 00:35:26,440
All that came from Christianity,
not from our Bibles.

681
00:35:26,960 –> 00:35:28,520
He doesn’t have to plead with
God.

682
00:35:28,800 –> 00:35:31,440
God loves you.
He wants to forgive you.

683
00:35:31,720 –> 00:35:34,240
He just wants to get us on board
and he.

684
00:35:34,240 –> 00:35:37,840
And if we have excuses, he set
his Son to take away all the

685
00:35:37,840 –> 00:35:41,320
excuses for us, drawing near to
the throne of grace.

686
00:35:41,960 –> 00:35:45,080
And so when we read about
intercession in the Bible with

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00:35:45,080 –> 00:35:49,800
with Jesus, what it is, is it’s
Jesus is interceding between the

688
00:35:49,800 –> 00:35:53,120
mind of the flesh and the mind
of the Spirit, just like the

689
00:35:53,120 –> 00:35:56,160
Angel did for him.
It’s our problem.

690
00:35:56,680 –> 00:35:59,200
And you see this, like, for
example, when you’re reading

691
00:35:59,200 –> 00:36:02,080
through Romans eight, you
probably noticed that in Romans

692
00:36:02,080 –> 00:36:04,520
8, the whole chapter at the
beginning is about the mind of

693
00:36:04,520 –> 00:36:06,160
the flesh versus the mind of the
Spirit.

694
00:36:06,280 –> 00:36:08,600
They’re at war with one another.
There’s this war going on, and

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00:36:08,840 –> 00:36:11,040
we got to be working on doing
that, the Spirit.

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00:36:11,280 –> 00:36:16,200
And then Paul says, well, Jesus
intercedes, and the King James

697
00:36:16,200 –> 00:36:19,240
puts in there for us.
They’re not in the Greek.

698
00:36:19,240 –> 00:36:23,160
He intercedes.
And who does he intercede with?

699
00:36:23,880 –> 00:36:27,400
Because, as John Carter said,
read the context.

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00:36:27,800 –> 00:36:31,520
The context is this battle of
the mind of the Spirit versus

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00:36:31,520 –> 00:36:33,880
the mind of the flesh and what
Christ does.

702
00:36:33,880 –> 00:36:38,040
He plays the role of the helper,
and he strengthens our spiritual

703
00:36:38,040 –> 00:36:40,480
minds to overcome the mind of
the flesh.

704
00:36:40,720 –> 00:36:44,920
He intercedes in in US between
the mind of the Spirit and the

705
00:36:44,920 –> 00:36:47,400
mind of the flesh.
Which is why later in Romans 8

706
00:36:47,400 –> 00:36:52,680
he says he intercedes according
to the will of God.

707
00:36:53,320 –> 00:36:57,800
He’s not begging God to forgive
us, He’s trying to convince us

708
00:36:58,200 –> 00:37:03,080
to overcome, to fight the devil
to beat it and and to God will

709
00:37:03,080 –> 00:37:05,760
forgive us.
He knows that and and you see

710
00:37:05,760 –> 00:37:08,240
how Romans 8 ends up.
It’s all about the love of God

711
00:37:08,240 –> 00:37:10,840
and the love of Christ and who’s
going to separate you from that?

712
00:37:11,120 –> 00:37:14,560
Look at we have somebody who
sits next to the Father who will

713
00:37:14,560 –> 00:37:17,600
send the help.
He will help us in overcoming

714
00:37:17,600 –> 00:37:19,440
this.
He’ll help us in this battle.

715
00:37:19,680 –> 00:37:22,040
That’s why he needed to send
them the helper.

716
00:37:23,240 –> 00:37:26,480
Well, I just want to spend a
minute of of talking about one

717
00:37:26,480 –> 00:37:28,160
of the issues that comes up in
here.

718
00:37:28,440 –> 00:37:32,320
We we have to be careful as
we’re we’re serving today and

719
00:37:32,320 –> 00:37:34,120
we’re working out in our
collegial life.

720
00:37:34,320 –> 00:37:37,200
One of the issues that comes up
all the time is our hymns and

721
00:37:37,200 –> 00:37:39,880
our music.
And I I just want to mention to

722
00:37:39,880 –> 00:37:42,440
the young and to the old that
we’ve we’ve both got to be

723
00:37:42,440 –> 00:37:44,520
careful about how this plays out
with us.

724
00:37:45,120 –> 00:37:47,640
But what’s happening in our
community is that we’re all

725
00:37:47,640 –> 00:37:51,200
being influenced whether we know
it or not by the influence of

726
00:37:51,200 –> 00:37:54,480
the Christian Church and by
humanism coming into our group.

727
00:37:54,800 –> 00:37:57,680
They’re always out there like
the the marketers are in in our

728
00:37:57,680 –> 00:38:00,400
world today.
And some of the ideas that that

729
00:38:00,400 –> 00:38:04,600
that they would like to throw at
us is this idea like Jesus is

730
00:38:04,600 –> 00:38:07,920
suffering your punishment.
Those of you that read the NIV,

731
00:38:07,960 –> 00:38:12,520
you probably have picked that up
in Isaiah 53 and it says that he

732
00:38:12,520 –> 00:38:14,520
he bore our punishment.
They just put it right in the

733
00:38:14,520 –> 00:38:17,760
text because that’s what they
believe when they translate it.

734
00:38:18,000 –> 00:38:22,160
Or this idea that Jesus needs to
beg God to forgive us because

735
00:38:22,160 –> 00:38:24,800
they misunderstood our loving
God.

736
00:38:24,800 –> 00:38:27,920
They didn’t realize he doesn’t
need Jesus to beg.

737
00:38:28,160 –> 00:38:32,440
He wants to forgive us, and he’s
using Jesus to help us get to

738
00:38:32,440 –> 00:38:34,400
that point that he can forgive
us.

739
00:38:34,920 –> 00:38:37,480
That’s what our God has done.
That’s what he did all along.

740
00:38:37,840 –> 00:38:40,920
So you watch how this plays out
in some of these things we We

741
00:38:40,920 –> 00:38:44,800
know the Father loves us.
We know He loves us more than

742
00:38:44,840 –> 00:38:47,360
anyone has ever loved us more
than Jesus.

743
00:38:47,800 –> 00:38:50,120
The churches wouldn’t do.
They’d say that Jesus loves you

744
00:38:50,120 –> 00:38:53,680
more than God and the angry God
gets helped out by his son who

745
00:38:53,920 –> 00:38:56,560
who gave himself for us and
suffered our punishment and all

746
00:38:56,560 –> 00:38:58,720
that.
We don’t believe that brothers

747
00:38:58,720 –> 00:39:01,080
and sisters and young people,
that’s not what Chris Adelphian

748
00:39:01,080 –> 00:39:03,120
stand for.
These other religions.

749
00:39:03,120 –> 00:39:05,920
They built their whole idea
about an angry God who’s just

750
00:39:05,920 –> 00:39:08,440
sitting there waiting to get you
for all of your sins.

751
00:39:08,880 –> 00:39:12,000
They think that Jesus now
defends us before God.

752
00:39:12,160 –> 00:39:14,080
He pleads with God to forgive
us.

753
00:39:14,240 –> 00:39:18,720
That King James Eagan uses that
word, an advocate, an advocate.

754
00:39:18,720 –> 00:39:21,080
In First John Two, they think he
advocates for us.

755
00:39:21,360 –> 00:39:24,840
He sort of talks God out of it,
but it’s not biblical.

756
00:39:24,960 –> 00:39:27,960
I mean, who did that for Adam
and for Noah and Abraham and

757
00:39:27,960 –> 00:39:30,240
Joseph and Moses and David or
Job?

758
00:39:30,720 –> 00:39:33,760
Job wanted somebody to do that,
didn’t he?

759
00:39:34,160 –> 00:39:37,560
He wanted that days minute calls
it, or that mediator.

760
00:39:37,720 –> 00:39:41,160
He wanted him to get between him
and God and he wanted somebody

761
00:39:41,160 –> 00:39:43,400
that could bring him and God to
the same level.

762
00:39:43,520 –> 00:39:48,120
And we could now talk this out
and he was going to convince God

763
00:39:48,120 –> 00:39:50,320
that he was wrong.
Show him all the evidence.

764
00:39:50,600 –> 00:39:53,880
That’s what Job was looking for.
And in the end he realized I was

765
00:39:53,960 –> 00:39:56,800
all wrong.
That isn’t how it works at all.

766
00:39:57,080 –> 00:39:59,640
God’s God was way above all of
that.

767
00:40:00,160 –> 00:40:03,320
So you’ve got to be careful in
all of our handbooks today that

768
00:40:03,320 –> 00:40:06,920
this stuff doesn’t creep into us
just so you can see how it does.

769
00:40:06,920 –> 00:40:10,480
Look at PTL 184.
I know that my Redeemer lives.

770
00:40:10,480 –> 00:40:14,080
See, this is what people like
out of Job, that he can play

771
00:40:14,080 –> 00:40:15,960
that role of the pleader.
That Joe.

772
00:40:16,360 –> 00:40:20,160
Joe wanted this intermediator to
come in this intercessor and

773
00:40:20,160 –> 00:40:23,280
plead with Job’s case before God
in the court.

774
00:40:23,880 –> 00:40:26,120
And in the end, he just said,
wow, I didn’t even know who you

775
00:40:26,120 –> 00:40:27,920
were, God.
I’d heard of you by the hearing

776
00:40:27,920 –> 00:40:30,520
of the ears.
But now I understand how it

777
00:40:30,520 –> 00:40:32,680
works.
When you see those things like

778
00:40:32,680 –> 00:40:35,120
that in in our hymns, we have to
be careful.

779
00:40:35,320 –> 00:40:39,640
They’re not biblical concepts.
You won’t find Jesus pleading

780
00:40:39,640 –> 00:40:43,680
with God to forgive us.
They both want to forgive us.

781
00:40:44,120 –> 00:40:48,320
That’s Romans 8.
Or you look in PTL 43, you know

782
00:40:48,400 –> 00:40:51,560
that they put in this idea that
Jesus was bruised for

783
00:40:51,560 –> 00:40:55,320
iniquities, sort of giving you a
their own, their own take on

784
00:40:55,320 –> 00:41:00,720
Isaiah 53 to bring us peace.
He was punished because they

785
00:41:00,720 –> 00:41:03,680
were using an NIV and they
thought that was the right

786
00:41:03,680 –> 00:41:05,120
thing.
That’s what they believed, that

787
00:41:05,120 –> 00:41:08,480
they thought Jesus was punished
to bring us peace and that he

788
00:41:08,480 –> 00:41:10,280
paid for the guilt that was
mine.

789
00:41:10,280 –> 00:41:12,880
They they really believe that.
They think he paid for your

790
00:41:12,880 –> 00:41:14,680
guilt.
It was a transaction, and he

791
00:41:14,680 –> 00:41:18,200
paid for all our sins.
But it’s not biblical to teach

792
00:41:18,200 –> 00:41:20,040
that.
You won’t find that in the real

793
00:41:20,040 –> 00:41:23,760
Hebrew text of Isaiah 53.
That’s a transliteration of

794
00:41:23,760 –> 00:41:26,200
somebody’s idea.
And for those of you that think

795
00:41:26,200 –> 00:41:29,720
that it’s just in the PTL, you
know, I think it’s good for all

796
00:41:29,720 –> 00:41:32,960
of us, only ones, to realize if
you’re a Green Book only person,

797
00:41:33,280 –> 00:41:35,440
that this stuff is in the Green
Book too.

798
00:41:35,680 –> 00:41:39,960
We we have to be careful that he
talks about Christ pleading for

799
00:41:39,960 –> 00:41:42,320
us.
He hears our cry, and he lives

800
00:41:42,320 –> 00:41:44,640
in glory now on high, pleading
for us.

801
00:41:45,160 –> 00:41:50,000
He doesn’t plead for us.
He pleads with us, He pleads

802
00:41:50,000 –> 00:41:52,400
with us.
He He sends the helper to

803
00:41:52,400 –> 00:41:56,040
involve in our life and he sends
his angels out pleading with us

804
00:41:56,040 –> 00:42:00,200
to overcome that that mind of
the flesh and destroy that devil

805
00:42:00,200 –> 00:42:02,680
and overcome it and make good
choices for him.

806
00:42:03,200 –> 00:42:07,560
Or you look in in in our green
book in 238 they copied this out

807
00:42:07,560 –> 00:42:10,200
of our you know your Bible.
They write in first John 2.

808
00:42:10,200 –> 00:42:13,760
Some of the bibles have that
Jesus is our advocate.

809
00:42:14,240 –> 00:42:17,280
Our advocate.
You know and advocate you know

810
00:42:17,280 –> 00:42:19,360
what that is today.
That’s somebody who gets

811
00:42:19,360 –> 00:42:22,640
involved between two parties and
they advocate for you.

812
00:42:22,640 –> 00:42:26,000
They they they they take your
cause and they try to convince

813
00:42:26,000 –> 00:42:29,120
the other side that you were
actually right and you should

814
00:42:29,120 –> 00:42:31,680
have a compromise.
That’s what advocates do.

815
00:42:32,240 –> 00:42:34,480
That’s not what our Lord Jesus
Christ does.

816
00:42:34,480 –> 00:42:37,480
Do you know what the word in the
Greek is for?

817
00:42:37,480 –> 00:42:41,520
Advocate?
Have you ever done a study on

818
00:42:41,520 –> 00:42:44,360
1st John Two?
That word in the Greek is

819
00:42:44,360 –> 00:42:49,120
Paracletos.
It’s the helper from John 15,

820
00:42:49,120 –> 00:42:52,680
John 17.
He is our helper.

821
00:42:53,160 –> 00:42:57,560
He’s not our advocate.
He’s helping us to come to God,

822
00:42:57,840 –> 00:43:00,640
not trying to convince God to
accept us.

823
00:43:01,160 –> 00:43:03,680
That’s what he really is.
Look at the NIV.

824
00:43:03,760 –> 00:43:06,240
Look what they do with this,
just so you’re aware of those of

825
00:43:06,240 –> 00:43:09,280
you that use an NIV.
They say in First John Two that

826
00:43:09,280 –> 00:43:13,360
if anybody does sin, we have one
who speaks to the Father in our

827
00:43:13,360 –> 00:43:15,800
defence.
That’s what an advocate is.

828
00:43:16,160 –> 00:43:18,560
And they just put the words in
there so you don’t misread it.

829
00:43:18,560 –> 00:43:20,680
They that’s really what an
advocate does.

830
00:43:21,000 –> 00:43:24,040
It’s not biblical.
Rather than sisters and young

831
00:43:24,040 –> 00:43:27,960
people, these are ideas that
have crept in from the churches,

832
00:43:28,360 –> 00:43:31,160
but they’re not ideas that are
actually in our bibles.

833
00:43:31,440 –> 00:43:33,040
And so you just check that out
yourself.

834
00:43:33,080 –> 00:43:36,600
Those of you that have Bible
programs out and the electronic

835
00:43:36,600 –> 00:43:38,280
people, you can check all this
stuff out.

836
00:43:38,280 –> 00:43:41,600
It’s actually the word paraclete
and it’s the only time used

837
00:43:41,600 –> 00:43:44,680
outside of John.
It’s in first John two look at

838
00:43:44,680 –> 00:43:47,440
the green Book 258.
This is where it becomes really

839
00:43:47,440 –> 00:43:51,400
clear that he died, but lives
alway and in the holy stands to

840
00:43:51,400 –> 00:43:55,080
plead for Saints who pray and to
hold up feeling hands.

841
00:43:55,640 –> 00:43:58,120
Our advocate, they’ve got both
of them in there now.

842
00:43:58,120 –> 00:44:00,360
We’ve got him pleading for us
and we have the advocate in

843
00:44:00,360 –> 00:44:03,600
there abides in heaven that
fearing Saints may be forgiven

844
00:44:03,960 –> 00:44:06,760
and he ends up with who pleases
households cause in heaven.

845
00:44:07,440 –> 00:44:10,640
I I hope you don’t have a
relationship with God.

846
00:44:11,120 –> 00:44:14,520
I I hope after this week you’re
not looking at your God, the God

847
00:44:14,520 –> 00:44:18,240
who we love and who loves us.
As somebody who needs to be

848
00:44:18,240 –> 00:44:23,160
talked out of forgiving you, I
hope that isn’t your

849
00:44:23,160 –> 00:44:26,400
relationship with God.
That’s not, that’s not the God I

850
00:44:26,400 –> 00:44:28,280
worship.
And like I told you at the

851
00:44:28,280 –> 00:44:32,200
beginning, if we don’t
understand the love of God, it

852
00:44:32,200 –> 00:44:35,920
affects how we have a
relationship with God and then

853
00:44:35,920 –> 00:44:38,720
it justifies us mistreating
other people.

854
00:44:39,160 –> 00:44:42,000
Our God isn’t like that.
He doesn’t need somebody to

855
00:44:42,000 –> 00:44:44,880
plead with him.
He wants to forgive you.

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He loves you, and he was willing
to give your his own Son and put

857
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him through all of that so that
he could get us to come to him

858
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and draw near to the throne of
grace.

859
00:44:56,400 –> 00:44:58,960
That’s the God who we worship,
brethren and sisters.

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We don’t need someone who
pleads.

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And the intercession.
If you look in Romans 8, if you

862
00:45:03,560 –> 00:45:06,360
ever check that out, you’d see
it’s an italics, that idea that

863
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he intercedes for us with
groanings.

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See, he’s referring back to the
Garden of Eden with the

865
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groanings.
He uses that word in the Greek,

866
00:45:13,920 –> 00:45:17,000
like Jesus when he groaned in
his spirit when he saw Lazarus

867
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and what he was going through.
When he’s when he’s praying in

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the garden he’s trying to get,
He’s fighting this battle of

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flesh versus the spirit and
flesh versus the spirit.

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And he intercedes with our minds
to strengthen us by all the

871
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things that the angels do in our
lives and the reading of his

872
00:45:33,440 –> 00:45:36,080
word and going to the classes,
all those things.

873
00:45:36,080 –> 00:45:40,880
He’s trying to intercede with us
according to the will of God.

874
00:45:41,360 –> 00:45:44,400
I think they’re on the same page
for the sisters.

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00:45:44,400 –> 00:45:46,400
It’s not Christ pleading with
God.

876
00:45:46,640 –> 00:45:49,600
It’s Jesus Christ trying to
bring us to God.

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00:45:49,880 –> 00:45:52,600
That’s what he’s doing.
He’s not trying to change his

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00:45:52,600 –> 00:45:54,160
father.
Well, I challenge you.

879
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And I read through John Carter’s
book, those of you that haven’t

880
00:45:56,760 –> 00:45:59,720
ever looked at Romans 8, that’s
he just, he just appealed to the

881
00:45:59,720 –> 00:46:02,880
fact.
Context, context, context.

882
00:46:03,120 –> 00:46:07,000
Read the context of it.
Don’t just take a verse out of a

883
00:46:07,000 –> 00:46:10,840
context and say that Jesus
intercedes for us and then apply

884
00:46:10,840 –> 00:46:13,720
some meaning to it that you want
to that you probably learn from

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00:46:13,960 –> 00:46:17,160
from Christianity.
Read the context.

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00:46:17,160 –> 00:46:21,080
It’s the war of the spirit, the
the, the old man versus the new

887
00:46:21,080 –> 00:46:24,720
man, and that’s what he brings
out in Romans chapter 8.

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If you look at in the Green Book
in 262, there it is again.

889
00:46:28,400 –> 00:46:31,560
He pleads for us above.
And the reason I’m bringing them

890
00:46:31,560 –> 00:46:35,520
all up is because if we’re not
careful, we let these hymns

891
00:46:35,520 –> 00:46:39,000
influence us to where we buy
into the Christian view of the

892
00:46:39,000 –> 00:46:42,160
atonement.
And we do have to be careful

893
00:46:42,440 –> 00:46:45,560
that that’s not really what we
want, the older ones and the

894
00:46:45,560 –> 00:46:47,160
younger.
We don’t want our hymns to

895
00:46:47,160 –> 00:46:50,080
mislead us.
And so we have to be careful.

896
00:46:50,280 –> 00:46:51,760
We don’t throw out the hymn
books.

897
00:46:52,160 –> 00:46:56,400
What we do is we pick hymns that
preach truth in both of the hymn

898
00:46:56,400 –> 00:46:58,400
books or in all of the hymn
books that we use.

899
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They all have good hymns.
Most of them are good.

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But there also are some, some,
some of the hymns that could be

901
00:47:03,760 –> 00:47:07,240
very misleading.
PTL 177, the one about the

902
00:47:07,240 –> 00:47:10,840
father turning away because he
can’t look at the sun up on the

903
00:47:10,840 –> 00:47:13,800
cross.
And it’s it’s just not true.

904
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It gives us the impression that
this is this angry God punishing

905
00:47:18,240 –> 00:47:20,200
the sun.
This is what the Christian

906
00:47:20,200 –> 00:47:23,120
churches teach.
But we know in Romans chapter

907
00:47:23,120 –> 00:47:26,440
eight Brothers and Sisters, as
as as he pleads, as he goes

908
00:47:26,440 –> 00:47:28,880
through that whole issue of
intercession and mentions it

909
00:47:28,880 –> 00:47:31,720
twice.
He ends that chapter and he and

910
00:47:31,720 –> 00:47:35,640
he deals with the fact that in
all things God is working for

911
00:47:35,640 –> 00:47:39,920
the good of those who love him,
who have been called according

912
00:47:39,920 –> 00:47:43,120
to his purpose.
That’s the premise that we it’s

913
00:47:43,120 –> 00:47:47,160
the foundation that God is
working for good because he

914
00:47:47,160 –> 00:47:50,880
loves us, and if we love Him,
He’s loving us.

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So what should we say then in
verse 31 in response to all of

916
00:47:54,640 –> 00:47:57,160
this?
If God is for us, who can be

917
00:47:57,160 –> 00:47:59,640
against us?
There’s nobody that can be

918
00:47:59,640 –> 00:48:02,360
against us.
He who did not spare his own Son

919
00:48:02,360 –> 00:48:07,040
but gave him up for us all, how
will he not also along with him,

920
00:48:07,040 –> 00:48:11,520
graciously give us all things?
Do you believe that that’s the

921
00:48:11,520 –> 00:48:14,600
God that we worship?
We want to become like Him and

922
00:48:14,600 –> 00:48:17,160
understand He wants to give us
the Kingdom.

923
00:48:17,600 –> 00:48:19,880
That’s what he wants.
And who will bring any charge

924
00:48:19,880 –> 00:48:22,280
against those whom God has
chosen.

925
00:48:22,880 –> 00:48:27,160
Now nobody’s going to do that.
God chose us so that he could

926
00:48:27,160 –> 00:48:29,600
save us and and add us to his
Kingdom.

927
00:48:29,800 –> 00:48:33,760
It is God who justifies.
He’ll justify us, Paul said.

928
00:48:33,760 –> 00:48:36,720
He promises And who is he who
condemns?

929
00:48:36,720 –> 00:48:38,880
Who’s going to condemn you at at
the judgement?

930
00:48:38,880 –> 00:48:42,520
See, Jesus Christ is, is he
going to come and condemn you

931
00:48:42,960 –> 00:48:46,080
who died more than that, who was
raised to life.

932
00:48:46,080 –> 00:48:50,480
He’s at the right hand of God
and is also interceding for us

933
00:48:50,680 –> 00:48:54,120
and our war against sin.
You you know, that’s what he

934
00:48:54,120 –> 00:48:55,600
says.
He’s our helper now.

935
00:48:55,760 –> 00:49:00,000
He’s helping us to to destroy
the old man and and fight this

936
00:49:00,000 –> 00:49:03,240
and put it to death.
Both of them are totally

937
00:49:03,240 –> 00:49:07,440
invested in saving you.
They want you there so bad.

938
00:49:07,720 –> 00:49:10,240
And the only one that can get in
the way of that is you.

939
00:49:10,720 –> 00:49:13,800
We are the only ones.
They will justify us.

940
00:49:13,960 –> 00:49:17,200
They will save us.
They will plead with us to fight

941
00:49:17,200 –> 00:49:19,280
the war.
Who’s going to separate us from

942
00:49:19,280 –> 00:49:21,880
the love of Christ?
He says nobody’s going to be

943
00:49:21,880 –> 00:49:24,880
able to separate you from the
love of God, which is in Christ

944
00:49:24,880 –> 00:49:27,480
Jesus.
And I’ll leave you with that for

945
00:49:27,480 –> 00:49:29,600
today.
But you know, I hope during this

946
00:49:29,600 –> 00:49:33,760
week we could hopefully sort of
re evaluate maybe our our our

947
00:49:33,760 –> 00:49:36,440
understanding and our
relationship with our God.

948
00:49:36,840 –> 00:49:40,480
It’s really important that we
get it right that we see him as

949
00:49:40,480 –> 00:49:44,200
the loving Father who’s doing
everything he possibly can to

950
00:49:44,200 –> 00:49:47,240
save us.
And I am sure, as Paul said of

951
00:49:47,240 –> 00:49:51,440
this, that he who began a good
work in you will bring it to

952
00:49:51,440 –> 00:49:54,160
completion at the day of Jesus
Christ.

953
00:49:54,840 –> 00:49:57,720
So thanks very much for your
attention this week.

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00:49:57,840 –> 00:49:59,400
It’s been really great being
here.

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00:50:00,200 –> 00:50:03,080
It’s really nice to have met a
lot of you for the first time

956
00:50:03,360 –> 00:50:06,320
and he’s got a great place here
and you got a whole bunch of

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00:50:06,320 –> 00:50:07,520
great young people over there.