Class 1 from this series was used in GCT Episode 296.
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Hello.
Good morning everyone.
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Hello.
Good morning everyone.
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Sue and I go walking most
mornings we get up.
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In the morning we try to go
walking.
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For.
A mile or so, maybe kilometre
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and 1/2 or whatever you would
call that in California.
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California has nice weather.
So we can usually.
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Do that we also.
Walk in the evenings.
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What we.
Found to do is we like to
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listen.
To the Bible readings online We
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use biblegateway.com and we like
to listen to chunks of the
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Bible, like just listen to a
whole book read at one time for.
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For 45 minutes and I found that
very useful.
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You actually learn.
Things by by not doing the
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readings in in just like chapter
by chapter you you read through.
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Hebrews 11 And then you find
out.
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Oh my goodness.
Hebrews 12 finishes.
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The, the, the that whole.
List of faithful people.
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And for a long time, I never
realized it ended with Jesus
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Christ in Hebrews 12.
But we’d run.
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Into people.
When we’re walking in the
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mornings, we we run.
Into a lot of folks in Simi
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Valley.
It seems like all of our
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neighbors have.
Dogs.
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There’s just like everybody has
a dog.
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And they’re out walking their
dogs and when their dogs.
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Die they replace them with.
Puppies.
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And they have to.
Start all over.
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And we’ve.
Watched these puppies.
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They come running up.
To us ’cause they’re so
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stretched their masters leashes.
And they come.
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Up and they jump up on you and
they just can’t wait to lick you
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and they’re so excited.
And the poor owners?
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They’re like, oh, I’m sorry.
And they’re like back, but
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they’re totally out of control.
And.
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In a lot of.
Ways we we view.
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This that over.
Time Puppies.
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Settle Do what?
We want to do and it takes a
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while.
To where we can be trained and
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guided.
By the Word of God.
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But thank God that he’s.
Willing to do that.
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He’s willing to take.
All of us who started out like
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wild little.
Puppies.
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Totally untrained.
Just.
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Doing what we do by nature and
He trains us into family members
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of His eternal family.
God’s character is so.
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Far from our natural minds when
we were born.
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I tried to.
Point out this week in God’s
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Election that none of us deserve
the training program.
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Nobody does but it but.
God is willing to send his
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angels to work on our lives, to
retrain us, to reprogram our
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brains.
To develop a spiritual mind
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that’s in conflict.
With our natural minds and that
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Jesus Christ is willing to
intercede with that and.
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Try to win that.
War that’s going on in our
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heads.
It’s.
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Something we can really thank
God for.
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Because he’s trying to get us.
To live his eternal way of life,
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what the Bible calls eternal
life.
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So many times it it’s not just
immortality, it’s an eternal.
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Way of life that was with the.
Father all along and has been
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revealed in the Son.
As John would say, that’s the
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good news.
He’s willing to train us.
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And it’s it’s all to do with
his.
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Mercy and his kindness.
That he’s picked Jude.
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He’s picked you to be.
Training for his for his family,
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for eternity.
The the problem.
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Is the training program.
Is tough.
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It’s tough.
As we’ve looked at this.
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Week and and Joel that involves
suffering.
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It involves some bad.
Days.
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You look at Bible.
Characters and what they.
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Want the life of?
David.
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Israel and.
Then goes through.
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Years where he’s running away
from.
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Saul doesn’t know what to do.
And he he goes through all these
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troubles and he gets.
To the point in the end where
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that final battle.
With.
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With where?
The Philistines.
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Went up the coast and they came
up from the north and they’re.
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Fighting with the Israelites.
And Saul and Jonathan are
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killed.
And David went over to Akish and
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he.
Fakes out being a.
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Madman and and all these things
that happen it’s it’s like.
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And and then David comes back
to.
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Ziglag at the end of.
That.
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When he got refused by the
Philistines to be accepted.
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And he gets.
Down to Ziglag, and he finds out
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the entire city’s been burned.
And all his family’s gone.
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All all of his men’s family were
gone, The kids and the wives.
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And you?
Know the people.
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The the people with David.
Those men that had wanted to go
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to war.
They were ready to kill him.
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And David strengthened himself
in the Lord, his God, and one
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week.
Later he was the.
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King of the South, They had
anointed him in King and.
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Judah.
He was accepted as their king,
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that’s how fast.
God can change things if we.
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Cooperate.
With his training program, it’s
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not easy.
But he guarantees that it will
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work.
So it starts out with children
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where you.
Grow up learning to obey your
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parents and the.
Lord for this is.
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Right.
We then go to school.
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We get jobs and exclusive
responsibilities sometimes.
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We end up in.
Marriage and.
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Sometimes we have children.
But it’s all part.
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Of the training program.
And as we get older, we care for
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the elderly, We take care of
our.
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Elderly brothers and sisters.
And God slowly trains.
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Us to give up our own interests.
And care more about the
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interests of others to have that
mind in us that was in.
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Christ, Jesus, Wait, It’s not
like.
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You.
You.
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You.
Consider them, you know.
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Better than yourself?
But they’re more important, as
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some of our modern versions
render that that others are more
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important than ourselves some
of.
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You might have played some
sports.
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Over the years.
Or maybe you’ve had a piano.
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Teacher or a music teacher who
was really hard?
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On you right they’re.
Sometimes they’re sort of tough.
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On us And they have really.
High bards and expectations.
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For us.
But you know what?
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They.
They do teach us is to focus.
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Don’t get distracted.
And we I’ve.
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Learned a lot from that about
the idea of.
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Being challenged to grow and
stay away from the.
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Distractions of this world.
You can apply those same
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principles and the truth.
Don’t get distracted.
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By all the advertisements out
there, all the offers that
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career pathways are going to
give.
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You we don’t want to be
distracted.
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We got to think about it’s God’s
family, God’s training us, and
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what can we do to?
Cooperate.
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God.
‘S not going to.
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Force.
US into a training.
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Program.
He offers it freely by grace.
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But he’s not going to make you
participate in this training
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program.
You know the question.
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We have this week when we go
home are are we going to submit
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to it are.
We going to cooperate with it?
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Are we going to accept it and
thank?
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God.
For it.
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Or are we going to challenge it
and say, well that’s not fair,
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is trying to grow our faith, but
he promises.
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He.
Promises all of.
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Us that.
If we cooperate, if we submit
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to.
All the word of angels in our
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lives.
He promises it will.
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End in is.
Important.
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Oh, sure, we have to do our.
Part got to pray.
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To God, constantly pray.
Without.
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Ceasing.
Asking for his help and for.
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His help on others and for those
that are going through a tweak,
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thinking.
About what else?
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Can help our brothers and
sisters help.
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The young people what think
about something.
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Else you could do.
At work, At home.
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At school.
Wherever we are, we have to
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practice.
Righteous.
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That are having angels working
in our lives.
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We have to remember when we’re
dealing with our brothers and
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sisters and their families and
their children.
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That they have angels as well.
And imagine how.
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Frustrating it must be.
To angels when they’re working
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with one of our, one of their
members, one of the the people
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they’ve been assigned, and we go
in and we.
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Frustrate the work.
Because of how we.
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Handle the situation.
You ever thought of that before?
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Sometimes we come into issues
and we’re.
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So motivated by what?
We want to do.
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We don’t even think about
what’s.
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Happening in the life.
Of the other person they have.
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Angels that care about.
Them.
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They’re training them as well
and we want to.
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Learn to be aware of.
That and.
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Cooperate with all the training
programs.
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You know, you look at somebody
like.
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Judah and Joseph.
Back in the old.
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Testament.
You know an angel’s.
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Working with Joseph another
one’s.
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Working with Judah and they’re
in two.
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Different points at at, at, at
life when they’re revealed in
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Genesis 37.
And 38 And Joseph’s way ahead of
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Judah, spiritually Judah’s.
Out there in chapter 38 as a.
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Contrast to like he’s a man of
this world.
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That’s all he cares about.
But he had an Angel working with
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him, guiding his life and and we
you.
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Know Joseph is so careful not to
totally.
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You know, kick him out.
Push him away.
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He’s aware of the.
Fact that there’s angels.
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Working and their life and.
The proof that God’s.
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Training Pro.
Growing.
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His faith in his father.
To where he could.
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Bring him to the crucifixion and
he could.
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See that’s.
What we’re here to remember this
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morning.
The victory that our Lords.
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Won and his son.
He beat the devil, he destroyed
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him and the power of death, that
is the devil, so that he could
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deliver those who through fear
of death.
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Were all their.
Lifetime subject to bondage.
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That’s.
What our God did?
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Him and his son Abraham and
Isaac going up together.
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As they totally destroyed.
Sin.
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Every part of sin.
Or, you know, we find out that,
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you know that.
If.
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If.
Paul.
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Puts it in Colossians.
Two that they destroyed.
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All the.
Rulers and the authorities.
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Put him all to.
Shame.
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Because that he suffered, God
put the cross.
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In front of him.
All of his life knowing this is
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where.
It’s going to end his.
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Son with that.
The same kind of thing God
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tries.
To do with us, he tells us.
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It’s going to be a life.
Of of trouble.
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And trials and suffering.
But if you.
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Trust me, I’ll bring you through
it.
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I’ll bring you through it, just.
Like I did with my son and Paul.
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Says that it was.
Tough in the days.
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Of his flesh when he had offered
up prayers and supplications
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with.
Vehement cries.
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And tears to him who was able
to.
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Save him from death, and he was.
Heard for because of his godly
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fear.
But though he was his son, he
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still had to learn.
Obedience by what he?
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Suffered.
And then having been.
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Perfected.
He became the the author.
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Or the source of eternal
salvation to all who obey.
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Him.
Or as Paul puts it in Hebrews
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chapter chapter 12 when he goes
through.
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All those people in chapter. 11
that live by faith, and they
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still.
Had their.
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Faith when they died.
He then.
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Goes and says well.
Look.
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To Jesus, we’re surrounded.
By this great.
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Cloud of.
Witnesses in the Bible
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witnessing to the.
Fact that God.
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Could change their life.
And he could save them as bad as
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they started.
Out he could.
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Still save them.
And Paul goes.
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On and Hebrews 12 You know that
was surrounded by this cloud.
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Let us.
Lay aside every weight.
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He sees it like an athlete in
the Olympic.
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Games.
And they had.
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All of their Greek gods up
there.
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Well, we’re.
Surrounded by the faithful.
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In the Bible and you lay.
Aside all the weights.
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When you go.
Out there to.
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To run the race.
They would run naked.
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That’s why they call them
gymnasiums and he sees.
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Lay aside all those weights.
Run the race.
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That’s set before us.
And don’t give in to the sin
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which so easily ensnares us.
Looking unto Jesus, the.
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Author and the finisher of
faith.
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Not our faith, although it does
in the end come down to our.
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Faith those words aren’t.
Athletes, in your Bible, it’s.
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It’s not and.
Perfecter say of faith, He’s the
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greatest example of faith that
ever lived.
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The greatest and what God?
Did in him the victory that he
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wanted in him because of the
training program, he run the
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race and he finished it and
there he is standing at the
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finish line waiting to help us.
Get there as well.
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That’s what our God has done for
us.
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So we consider him who endured
all that hostility and all that
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stuff from.
Sinners.
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And so we remember.
Look at what, Jesus?
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Went through for us.
And so we don’t get.
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Discouraged.
We don’t get.
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Depressed.
We don’t start.
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Thinking Well, this isn’t.
Fair that I have to go through
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this See, I think that’s what
job came to, you know,
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eventually it’s like.
It’s not fair and.
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Jesus would have learned from
Job that no.
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No, I’m not going to go down
that pathway it.
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It’s not about fair, it’s about
what it takes to make it.
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To the end, and God promises
he’ll.
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Bring the right circumstances,
the right experiences.
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Into all of our lives because.
He’s treating us as his children
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and and what father doesn’t
discipline their child?
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And and we know that what?
Paul would say.
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In in Hebrews 12.
Is that I know the earthly
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fathers they.
Do it sometimes for their good,
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sometimes you don’t, I think.
Every parent out there has been
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to a point where you’ve sort of
had it with your child and maybe
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we just sort of like sometimes
in anger we lash out and we
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we’re so tired.
And we just we.
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Discipline them for me.
But Paul assures us that’s.
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Not what God does.
He says he.
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Disciplines you every time.
For your good.
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Because he.
Wants you to share His Holiness.
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It’s a training program to.
Turn us into his.
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Children’s.
And so.
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We’ve, we’ve got.
To endure that he’s.
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Treating us as sons and we want
to be legitimate.
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Sons, so we.
Have to go through.
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The training program.
So as Paul.
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Said in Hebrews 12 down at
verse.
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Ten that those fathers that we
have.
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Today, sure, they they indeed
they disciplined us and
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chastened.
Us as seem best to them.
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But God does it for our prophet.
That’s what he’s.
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Doing when angels bring
experiences into our lives.
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Their their custom making the
trials we need.
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To turn us into.
God’s children so that we can be
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partakers of His Holiness.
But I love the way that Paul is
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he.
He’s.
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Such he’s such a.
Reasonable person and
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acknowledges it’s not some
theoretical thing.
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And he says look, I.
Know for the moment, no,
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chastening seems.
Joyful for the present, but it’s
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painful.
But we have the faith.
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And the confidence to.
Realize if we.
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Put up with it if we.
Participate with it.
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That it will in the end.
Afterward.
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It will yield the peaceable
fruit of righteousness to those
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who have been trained.
By it.
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That we put, it’s a training
program.
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Thank God.
That he’s willing to train us.
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Don’t fight it.
Don’t resist it, Accept.
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It as I’m that.
Bad this is.
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What I need this?
Is what others need.
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God may use us like Job to show.
Other people what he’s.
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Trying to.
Get us to see it’s a training
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program and that’s.
What?
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Our Lord Jesus.
Christ, did you you look at?
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All.
The things that happened in his
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life, he never complained.
He he didn’t mistreat other
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people because of what they were
doing to.
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Him no matter.
What he suffered.
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He didn’t lash out at.
Them then revile at them.
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But he trusted God.
In everything, he understood the
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training program and his.
Goal was to work through it.
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Respond the right way.
And.
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Leave us an example.
That we could follow in his.
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Show us God’s.
Eternal way of life.
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And he.
What he did Is he the greatest
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victory any man has?
Ever won he.
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Totally disturbed the devil.
And that’s what we’re here to
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remember this morning that God’s
training program worked.
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For Jesus as we take the.
Bread and the wine.
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We remember the V1.
It’s exciting.
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And that God’s.
Working in our lives.
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If you’re willing to eat his
flesh and drink his.
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Blood and then go through the
program that he went through.
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God will save us.
He promises it will.
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Work but it.
Comes at a cost.
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There’s suffering.
There’s trials, there’s bad days
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that come with it.
But the training program?
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Will work, you see.
Sometimes we think we’re we’re
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here to remember.
All the physical torment Jesus
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went through, Look at what they
did to him.
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Look at what they how they.
Treated him.
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Look at what the Jews, the
Romans did and they.
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Nailed those nails.
Into him.
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They put them up on the cross,
they put them up on that pole.
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And they did.
All those things and you’ve.
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Probably heard people give
classes Christadelphians telling
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you all about how terrible.
Crucifixion was.
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Have you ever noticed in the
Gospels, though, that’s not?
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What God left on record for us
He doesn’t tell us a whole lot
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about what the people did to
Jesus.
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He gives us just enough for us
to realize how did Jesus.
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Respond to that.
How did he handle it?
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As Peter says that when he was
suffered, he didn’t threaten.
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When he was reviled, he didn’t
lash.
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Back out at people.
Why not?
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First, Peter 2, because he
trusted him who judges justly.
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He accepted the training program
and didn’t lash out at people.
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He’s killing the.
Devil in himself.
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That’s what God wants us to
remember today.
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We don’t come here to remember
the.
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Torture.
We don’t come here to remember
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that sinners.
Deserve to die.
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We come.
Here to remember that God can
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win the victory in US.
Have a positive attitude
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tomorrow when you wake up.
It’s a new week.
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And God’s still working in our
lives.
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He’s changing us and it it
changes the day.
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We treat other people.
Have a positive.
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Spirit about it all for years.
God.
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God tried to teach.
This through animal sacrifice,
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he tried.
Look at, look at.
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Adam and Eve when they sinned,
and he clothed them with with
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coats of skins.
And he.
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Tried to explain to them that I
can take.
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Care of this if you participate
with me.
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I don’t really want to punish
you.
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I want to save you.
That’s our God.
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He loves us.
Or you look at how the.
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Angel dealt with Cain.
Look at what happened with Cain.
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With Cain when?
He made this mistake, offered
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the wrong stuff.
The Angel didn’t say.
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Well, you know you you should be
punished for that.
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You should be killed for that.
That that’s not.
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What the Angel said.
The Angel said.
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We can work.
This out.
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You can get this right, Cain.
But I want you to know that sin.
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There like a.
Lion crouching at the door, and
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it’s ready to Cain.
See, that’s not a.
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Sin offering.
Like some of a thing there, it’s
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it’s not a sin, it’s sin is.
Crouching.
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At the door he.
Personifies sin for.
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The very first.
Time in the Bible and says.
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You got to realize like a.
Wild animal and you got to.
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Control.
It you got to master Cain,
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we’ll.
Work with you, you.
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Can overcome this and Cain walks
away.
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See that I don’t want any.
Part of that training program,
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that’s not what he wanted to do.
He wanted something totally
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different in this life.
God.
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Was unfair.
He couldn’t.
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Accept the training program you
see when it comes to animal
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sacrifice, then when God.
Instituted that I’ve.
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Asked so many Christadelphians.
Why do?
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You think the.
Author killed the animal.
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Why do you?
Think the author.
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Killed the animal and you know
that the standard answer.
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I get is because.
Sinners deserve to die.
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We are so focused folks on.
Punishment.
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We don’t realize we’ve we’ve.
Taken this in from.
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Christianity from the Christian.
Church.
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That’s not what God.
Ever intended with animal
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sacrifices.
Just.
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Think about it for a minute.
Think about when if you.
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Were going to do an animal
sacrifice, you’d have to go find
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an animal that is without
blemish.
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Who did the?
Animal represent.
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Was it us?
Who was it?
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It was Jesus Christ.
He’s without.
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Blemish.
Cloven.
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Footage.
So he doesn’t.
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Stumble.
You know this is the Lord Jesus
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Christ.
You find a.
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Representative of the flock that
represents my Messiah.
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God says you bring.
That animal the.
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Best because.
He will be the best, and you
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bring that animal to the priest.
See, this was never about.
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Punishment, do you really think?
Jesus deserved to die if it was
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thinking.
About it.
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We were going through the
motions.
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We would never come out with
that.
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Conclusion.
And we would.
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Go to that to the.
Priest and the.
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Priest would say OK.
Lay your hands on the head of
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that animal.
You identify with him.
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Or like the Apostle Paul would.
Say when he.
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Explains all this without.
Legalistic.
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Terms You are buried.
With him in baptism into his.
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Death.
So that you can rise to a new
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way of life you identify.
With that Messiah.
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You put sin to death.
The animal nature that’s there,
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you destroy it.
You put it to death.
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That’s what he’s.
Going to do join with him and.
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00:20:05,040 –> 00:20:08,800
To death, like his God was
trying to teach people.
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About the training program.
He’s trying to tell us all I I
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can do this, but you have to
participate.
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You have to be an active
participant.
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We don’t just come here every
Sunday morning and say, well, I
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deserve.
To die.
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I deserve to die, God.
Please forgive me and walk away
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unchanged, people.
We.
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Participate in His death to sin,
We.
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Join him in a.
Death like his so.
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We can.
Rise to a resurrected life like
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Our Lord.
Jesus Christ.
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That’s.
What God was It was never.
468
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About Sinners deserve to die.
Although that’s a true.
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Statement.
That’s not what God wanted to
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do.
He doesn’t keep beating us over
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the head.
Over.
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The fact we’re sinners.
And we should die, and he wants
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to kill us.
And he wants.
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To punish he wants.
To.
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Change us into his.
Children.
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That’s what he wants.
And all of this is about.
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Changing.
People you know.
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I’ve watched Christadelphians
argue about animal sacrifice for
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years.
And and and brethren will argue.
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About what?
The death?
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What did the death mean?
Well, that’s is that eternal
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death.
We deserve a violent.
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Death like the animal when you
kill it with.
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A knife?
Is that what God was saying
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00:21:13,480 –> 00:21:15,200
that?
We all deserve a violent.
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Death like Jesus on the.
Cross and they’re so.
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00:21:18,080 –> 00:21:20,600
Focused on the physical.
Death.
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Of the animal and the physical
death of Jesus on the.
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Cross That isn’t what saves us,
brothers and sisters.
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That doesn’t change your life.
Oh, you could appreciate it.
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00:21:31,400 –> 00:21:33,800
And you can say, oh thank you
God, that you did this for me,
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but it doesn’t cause us to
participate in his death to sin.
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And that’s what.
God was always after.
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He wanted those animal sacrifice
he wanted.
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People to bring them not because
of the sacrifice, but to teach
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us to participate.
In the death.
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Of Messiah be like.
Him.
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Fight sin.
Fight the devil.
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Put it to death in your life.
Don’t just give in.
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To our natural desires.
And have you ever?
501
00:21:59,640 –> 00:22:03,320
Noticed that many of us talking
about animal sacrifices.
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We quit there.
We think that’s the.
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End We don’t even.
Read the rest.
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What?
What did you then do with the
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animal, With the blood?
You sprinkled the blood.
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On the altar our.
Life God saying look.
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I can put you on that.
Altar I can lay Jesus Christ.
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On on that altar, through the
troubles.
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And trials of this life.
By he learned that obedience.
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By the.
Things that he suffered.
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I can.
Change my son and he will ascend
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to me as a pleasing odor.
Into the presence of.
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God and if you are in him.
I can do it with you too.
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He can change you.
He can.
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00:22:39,640 –> 00:22:42,800
Save you see we we somehow we
have.
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To get this punishment stuff out
of.
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Our life we have.
To do what?
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What John says it is possible to
have perfect love and it casts
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00:22:51,280 –> 00:22:55,560
out fear, because fear has to do
with punishment.
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00:22:56,040 –> 00:22:58,040
We are so.
Affected by the.
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Christian community and all this
punishment, although you don’t
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hear much about it anymore, but
so many of our hymns and our
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background in Christian
literature was.
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Based off of that angry God idea
and it’s filtered into.
525
00:23:10,840 –> 00:23:13,040
Us.
And we we misread.
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Bible stories and concepts.
And things about the.
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00:23:15,600 –> 00:23:17,760
Atonement because we’re so.
Worried.
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About punishment, the problem
with punishment, it’s all
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negative.
It’s all passive.
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Somebody’s gonna punish you.
What God was after after was an
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active participation in the
death of his Son.
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We are here to take.
Bread and wine this morning.
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And then walk out of here
showing forth his death.
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To sin until he comes.
That’s that’s our job.
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We have to live.
It in our lives.
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We show forth his death.
Not the death that they did to
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him.
Not what the Romans and the.
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Jews did at the.
Killing him and what they.
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Put him through.
His death.
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That he accomplished when he
destroyed him that had the power
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of death, That is the devil, He
put sin to death.
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That’s what God wants.
Us to participate in.
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00:24:04,560 –> 00:24:06,840
That’s what he wants.
Us to remember this morning.
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It’s a huge victory.
It’s exciting, what?
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He did, and we thank God that
he’s.
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Willing to train.
Us as well.
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You when you’re reading through
Romans.
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Six out of.
Baptism sometime.
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Just notice how often Paul?
Refers to these ideas.
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That we’re baptized.
Into his death.
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Not his physical death.
The death that he died.
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00:24:29,320 –> 00:24:31,520
Paul even says it that way.
He goes on and says.
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We’ve been united together in
the.
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Likeness of his death.
And in verse. 10 of Romans 6 he
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actually says.
Finally.
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Here you don’t miss it for the
death.
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That he.
Died.
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He died to.
Sin once.
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For all, it’s all about the
death he.
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Died not the death that the Jews
and the Romans brought on him.
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He’s.
Killing sin one.
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Moment after the next he’s
refusing.
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To give him the sin.
He’s caring about his disciples
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on that last day, as we looked
at yesterday in that class, so
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focused on what can I do to help
you, How can we serve each other
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so that everybody makes it.
That’s the.
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Focus of our Lord Jesus.
Christ, that’s what motivated.
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Him to put the old man to death,
that’s.
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Why in our Bibles?
That when God left the record of
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four.
Gospels of the Crucifixion.
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They don’t.
Focus on the torture.
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They don’t.
Tell us about what he’s going
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00:25:30,080 –> 00:25:32,160
through and the pain and the
agony.
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I know our.
Hymns do, because they’re.
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Written by Christians and they
they think somehow that all that
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pain and all that agony that he
went through.
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He somehow paid the price for
you, so you don’t have to go
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through that.
And it’s so wrong.
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It’s so wrong.
It gives you totally the wrong
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00:25:48,160 –> 00:25:49,920
idea, he.
Went.
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Through it to show.
Us that we’ve got to
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participate.
In his death to sin, we have to
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go out of here and show forth
his death until he comes.
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00:26:00,120 –> 00:26:03,360
It’s an active.
Participation in the life.
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Of the Jesus Christ you ever?
Notice how in Mark’s Gospel.
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Oh, Mark actually says he
records all this stuff and he
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00:26:09,040 –> 00:26:10,840
just says.
And they crucified him.
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00:26:11,960 –> 00:26:14,080
That’s it.
And they crucified him.
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00:26:14,920 –> 00:26:18,240
Because you know.
Torturing a man.
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00:26:18,520 –> 00:26:20,800
Putting him through all of that
crucifixion.
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Isn’t going to save anybody if
you don’t.
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00:26:24,720 –> 00:26:27,480
Realize that it was all about
the victory.
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00:26:27,560 –> 00:26:31,440
He was accomplished that God.
Was winning in him?
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00:26:31,960 –> 00:26:35,040
Of destroying sin.
That’s what matters in our
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00:26:35,040 –> 00:26:37,000
lives.
I I really love the way.
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Peter puts it that.
He’s he did all this stuff.
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Because he says that he.
Bore our.
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Sins in his own.
Body on the tree.
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00:26:43,680 –> 00:26:45,640
Oh yeah, he took.
Our nature.
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Up there on the tree, he fought
it to the end that.
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We, having died to sins, might
live.
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00:26:54,000 –> 00:26:57,600
For righteousness.
It it wasn’t about punishment.
603
00:26:58,040 –> 00:27:01,080
It was about changing.
Us to die to.
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00:27:01,080 –> 00:27:03,440
Sin.
And live to righteousness.
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00:27:03,840 –> 00:27:07,600
By.
His stripes, you are healed.
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00:27:08,840 –> 00:27:12,120
Now what does that mean by his?
Stripes you are healed you think
607
00:27:12,120 –> 00:27:15,000
somehow that because.
Jesus was tortured.
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He was put through all of that.
That somehow.
609
00:27:17,240 –> 00:27:19,560
That just means you’re forgiven
of your sins.
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00:27:21,080 –> 00:27:25,000
It’s by his stripes.
We were healed because he he
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00:27:25,000 –> 00:27:26,400
healed.
Our minds.
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00:27:26,680 –> 00:27:30,000
He taught us how to live.
He showed us God’s.
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00:27:30,120 –> 00:27:33,640
Eternal way of life.
And he’s trained us in it, and
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he’s willing to teach it to us.
Today, that’s.
615
00:27:36,360 –> 00:27:38,680
What we’re here to remember,
we’re here to remember.
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The death that Jesus.
Died not the death that they did
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to him.
So as we take.
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The emblems.
This morning, let’s reflect on
619
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the love that God and Jesus have
for us.
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Appreciate it.
They want us to make it.
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They don’t want to punish us.
They want to save.
622
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Us and.
Train us and discipline us,
623
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instruct us.
So that we can share their
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holiness, let’s remember that
it’s God’s.
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Family, brothers and sisters
our, our.
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Physical children that we have,
they’re gods.
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00:28:10,160 –> 00:28:13,520
The Ecclesia that we have, the
community that we have, it’s.
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00:28:13,640 –> 00:28:17,520
All God’s.
Family and he can pull into his
629
00:28:17,520 –> 00:28:19,800
family and invite whoever he
wants.
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00:28:20,080 –> 00:28:22,880
It is his choice.
And no matter what.
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Sins we’ve committed this week.
And we’ll go on to commit in our
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future.
Let’s.
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Forsake them let’s.
Learn like like Peter.
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Said in Acts chapter 2 that the
blessing.
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Of Abraham was.
Not just that God Forgives.
636
00:28:35,280 –> 00:28:39,880
Us today, but that.
God will turn us away from our
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iniquities.
He’ll change our lives.
638
00:28:42,480 –> 00:28:47,720
The training program works so
that he can forgive our sins.
639
00:28:48,320 –> 00:28:50,960
We we’ve sort of.
Of that first part of it.
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00:28:51,320 –> 00:28:54,960
He’s turning us away.
From our iniquity home.
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This week, let’s remember, let’s
let this week have an influence
642
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about how we treat ourselves,
how we treat our children, how
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we treat our ecclesial.
Members.
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Put ourselves in their.
Shoes Sometimes when something
645
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goes wrong, think about if.
You were that.
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00:29:08,360 –> 00:29:10,840
Person that had committed that
sin.
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How would you want to be?
Treated.
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00:29:13,240 –> 00:29:16,120
What would be?
Helpful to you to change your
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00:29:16,120 –> 00:29:19,080
life to get you back.
On track and then.
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00:29:19,080 –> 00:29:21,800
Take that with you when you go
to talk to that person.
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00:29:22,640 –> 00:29:26,120
Instead of this punishment that
we’re so good at, it’s it’s
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judging and punishment it’s not.
Really.
653
00:29:28,360 –> 00:29:32,160
The of our Lord Jesus Christ.
With his family, that’s not.
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What our God does to us.
And thank God for his training
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program.
Without it, we’re all lost.
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00:29:37,600 –> 00:29:40,720
If the angels quit working in
our lives tomorrow, none of us,
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none of us would make it.
We have to have it every day,
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00:29:45,160 –> 00:29:47,280
every week.
They’re bringing the right.
659
00:29:47,280 –> 00:29:48,600
Things into our life.
To.
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00:29:48,600 –> 00:29:50,760
Guide us into the.
Family of God?
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00:29:50,960 –> 00:29:51,920
That’s.
Their job?
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00:29:52,280 –> 00:29:54,880
They’re ministering.
Spirits sent forth.
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00:29:54,880 –> 00:29:57,440
To minister for those.
For you who are the.
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Heirs of salvation.
And we’re learning.
665
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We’re learning so that we can
join them in the work in the
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Kingdom Age, God willing.
And I love the way.
667
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Jude sums up the.
Concept of animal sacrifice.
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Say, see, these people
understood it, they realized.
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What it was all.
About.
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And he uses these.
References about without blemish
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and with stumbling, and he he
ends.
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Up Jude.
With in his letter and he says
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now to him who?
Is able to keep you.
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From stumbling he can do.
It the training.
675
00:30:29,960 –> 00:30:32,240
Program works.
He’s sleeping, swinging.
676
00:30:32,240 –> 00:30:34,800
Of those animals under the.
Law the animal’s sacrifice, and
677
00:30:34,800 –> 00:30:36,840
you take that.
Animal That’s cloven foot and it
678
00:30:36,840 –> 00:30:38,480
won’t stumble.
God can.
679
00:30:38,480 –> 00:30:40,960
Do that to us.
He can keep us.
680
00:30:40,960 –> 00:30:44,520
From stumbling and and here’s
the other.
681
00:30:44,520 –> 00:30:48,440
Part and then present.
Us without blemish.
682
00:30:49,240 –> 00:30:51,880
Before the presence.
Of his glory with.
683
00:30:52,000 –> 00:30:55,640
Great joy.
There’s the animals ascending in
684
00:30:55,640 –> 00:30:58,960
the smoke up to God into his.
Presence as a pleasing.
685
00:30:58,960 –> 00:31:01,840
Odor.
These folks understood what
686
00:31:01,840 –> 00:31:03,640
animal sacrifice was.
All about.
687
00:31:04,120 –> 00:31:07,280
To the only God our Savior
through Jesus Christ.
688
00:31:07,280 –> 00:31:09,160
Our Lord.
The glory.
689
00:31:09,200 –> 00:31:13,800
And majesty dominion and.
Authority before all.
690
00:31:13,800 –> 00:31:16,560
Time and now and.
Forever.
691
00:31:17,440 –> 00:31:17,760
Amen.
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